Second Life | Wonderland

Episode 2 | Street Gangs

Graeme focuses on what happens when gang life begins to go wrong. Sharing deeply personal stories, Graeme engages with police and reformed gang memb...

Episode 1 | Street Gangs

Ex-gang member Graeme Armstrong tries to understand why young people are seduced by the perceived glamour and excitement of gang.

Episode 3 | Street Gangs

Graeme explores the Wyndford Scheme in Maryhill and travels to Glencoe to meet a man who, like himself, managed to turn his life around and leave ga...

Gang Culture in Scotland - Part 2 | Street Gangs

An exploration of further reasons young people join gangs, attachment, sense of belonging, relative deprivation, social medi...

Episode 2 | The Years That Changed Modern Scotland

Kirsty Wark explores the 1980s and early 1990s, a time of painful transition in Scotland as old industries declined and ne...

Episode 3 | The Years That Changed Modern Scotland

Kirsty Wark explores the 1990s and 2000s, from the highs of the rave scene, Trainspotting and a new Scottish parliament, t...

Gang Culture in Scotland - Part 3 | Street Gangs

Community outreach programmes trying to support young people from gang life and crime. Challenges of life after prison.

A safe space | Growing Up Green

The Findhorn Foundation provides an alternative to normality, with safe spaces for young people and humble, low-stress lives for working adults.

Art and marketing | Meet You at the Hippos

Malcolm Robertson considers how much of his public art created for Glenrothes evolved from art into advertisments for the town.

Art as a flood defence | Meet You at the Hippos

Denis Barnes discusses the simple ways he created public art initially with zero budget and how some even aided the natural w...

Art in Scottish ''new-towns'' | Meet You at the Hippos

Actor Mark Bonnar details Scotland's building boom of "new-towns" in the post-war era.

Being segregated | Growing Up Green

The interviewees reflect on growing up at the Findhorn Foundation and how they felt left out at school.

Birth of new towns | Meet You at the Hippos

The post-war government were keen to build communities as well as just housing but equally wanted to reduce the population of Gla...

Composting | Growing Up Green

Composting was just one of the initiatives from the Findhorn Foundation that influenced Chloe to become interested in ecological living.

Concrete Elephants | Meet You at the Hippos

Steve Bonnar discovers his concrete elephants have lost their trunks since he installed them, leaving him philosophical about art...

Concrete Hippos | Meet You at the Hippos

Steve Bonnar reflects 38-years later about his first new town public art project amounting in some concrete hippos.

Environmental art | Meet You at the Hippos

Andrew Dimitrius considers what environmental art is and how that differs from historic public art in the way of plinths and monum...

Episode 1 | The Years That Changed Modern Scotland

In this people’s history, Kirsty Wark explores the 1970s and early 1980s, an era of shops, pop, new towns and oil, and whe...

Episode 4 | The Years That Changed Modern Scotland

Kirsty Wark explores the 2008 financial crash and the aftermath that saw Scotland try to recover and rebuild, all while qu...

First Town Artist | Meet You at the Hippos

In the 1970's the town planners of Scotland's new-towns hired "town artists" to make public work that would complement the community.