Scotland’s Finest: The Story of the Highland Games

Scotland’s Finest: The Story of the Highland Games

Acquiring Culture | BBC One Scotland | 2012 | 58'23''

Bill Patterson narrates the rich and vivid story of the Highland Games, which have become a symbol of community and ...

Episode 4 | The Years That Changed Modern Scotland

Episode 4 | The Years That Changed Modern Scotland

Acquiring Culture | BBC Scotland | 2021 | 58'02''

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

Episode 3 | The Years That Changed Modern Scotland

Episode 3 | The Years That Changed Modern Scotland

Acquiring Culture | BBC Scotland | 2021 | 58'00''

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

Episode 2 | The Years That Changed Modern Scotland

Episode 2 | The Years That Changed Modern Scotland

Acquiring Culture | BBC Scotland | 2021 | 57'59''

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

Episode 1 | The Years That Changed Modern Scotland

Episode 1 | The Years That Changed Modern Scotland

Acquiring Culture | BBC Scotland | 2021 | 58'03''

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

06: Community and Politics | Soul of Britain

06: Community and Politics | Soul of Britain

Acquiring Culture | BBC One | 2000 | 49'09''

This week, Michael Buerk questions whether the traditional notion of community is outdated. Panellists include Pat Kane, Anne At...

Episode 4 | Black Is The New Black

Episode 4 | Black Is The New Black

Acquiring Culture | BBC Two | 2016 | 29'09''

In the final episode, our cast of extraordinary black Britons are facing today and the future.

Episode 2 | Black Is The New Black

Episode 2 | Black Is The New Black

Acquiring Culture | BBC Two | 2016 | 29'01''

Our cast of extraordinary black Britons talk about school days, 'playing the game' and negotiating the working world.

Episode 1 | Black Is The New Black

Episode 1 | Black Is The New Black

Acquiring Culture | BBC Two | 2016 | 29'02''

Episode one explores both arriving and growing up in Britain through intimate interviews with prominent black Britons.

05: What Is Our Future? | Human Universe

05: What Is Our Future? | Human Universe

Acquiring Culture | BBC Two | 2014 | 58'09''

Professor Brian Cox examines what lies ahead for humankind. On Svalbard, he gains access to civilisation's greatest treasure, buried...

04: A Place in Space and Time | Human Universe

04: A Place in Space and Time | Human Universe

Acquiring Culture | BBC Two | 2014 | 58'58''

Professor Brian Cox explores mankind's place in the universe. He looks at how we came to understand that we are not at the cen...

03: Are We Alone? | Human Universe

03: Are We Alone? | Human Universe

Acquiring Culture | BBC Two | 2014 | 59'08''

Professor Brian Cox explores mankind's place in the universe. He considers the possibility of alien life - could it exist and will humans ...

02: Why Are We Here? | Human Universe

02: Why Are We Here? | Human Universe

Acquiring Culture | BBC Two | 2014 | 59'13''

Professor Brian Cox explores our place in the universe. He tackles the question that unites the seven billion people sharing this plane...

01: Apeman – Spaceman | Human Universe

01: Apeman – Spaceman | Human Universe

Acquiring Culture | BBC Two | 2014 | 59'02''

Professor Brian Cox explores our place in the universe. He charts the story of humans from apes to the birth of civilisation to ...

Feral Children | Mindshock

Feral Children | Mindshock

Acquiring Culture | Channel 4 | 2003 | 48'38''

The film examines the phenomenon of feral children, brought up by animals, and isolated from all human contact. What are they like in adulthood an...

The Impact of Immigration on Identity | Last Whites Of The East End

The Impact of Immigration on Identity | Last Whites Of The East End

Acquiring Culture | BBC One | 2016 | 7'24''

Mass immigration to Newham in the past 25 years has meant the area is no longer recognisable from the pas...

Does class still exist, and is social mobility possible? | Prescott: The Class System And Me

Does class still exist, and is social mobility possible? | Prescott: The Class System And Me

Acquiring Culture | BBC Two | 2008 | 11'04''

Former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott explores whether class still exists a...

Part 3 | Living Proof

Part 3 | Living Proof

Acquiring Culture | BBC One | 1999 | 7'18''

The boy reunites with monkeys and further discussion of the plausibility of this story takes place.

Part 2 | Living Proof

Part 2 | Living Proof

Acquiring Culture | BBC One | 1999 | 1'49''

A discussion with scientists as to whether the evidence the boy who lived with monkeys gives is plausible.

Part 1 | Living Proof

Part 1 | Living Proof

Acquiring Culture | BBC One | 1999 | 3'56''

John, a boy in Uganda describing his year living with monkeys when he was 4-5 years old.

What Makes a Human? | Horizon

What Makes a Human? | Horizon

Acquiring Culture | BBC Two | 2013 | 59'02''

Professor Alice Roberts investigates what exactly makes human beings different from the animal kingdom. What is it that truly makes us human?

Police | Moral Maze

Police | Moral Maze

Acquiring Culture | BBC Radio 4 | 2013 | 42'32''

What should police be for - crime fighters or enforcers of social norms? Engaging debate chaired by Michael Buerk. With Claire Fox, Anne McElvoy, Giles F...

The Boy Who Lived With Monkeys | Living Proof

The Boy Who Lived With Monkeys | Living Proof

Acquiring Culture | BBC One | 1999 | 29'21''

Sally Magnusson and Prof Doug Candland, an expert in feral children, travel to a remote village in Uganda to meet John who clai...

Last Whites Of The East End

Last Whites Of The East End

Acquiring Culture | BBC One | 2016 | 57'44''

Documentary exploring the effect of immigration on the dwindling white community of the East End, from the perspective of those who remain and th...

Home Life 3: Nuclear Household | Thinking Allowed

Home Life 3: Nuclear Household | Thinking Allowed

Acquiring Culture | BBC Radio 4 | 2011 | 27'47''

How are homes changing? In a special series Laurie Taylor and sociologists visit listeners' homes to explore private life. ...

Episode 1 | Prescott: The Class System And Me

Episode 1 | Prescott: The Class System And Me

Acquiring Culture | BBC Two | 2008 | 59'05''

John Prescott embarks on a journey through the British class system to see if class still exists, meeting lords, ladies, ''chav...

Episode 3 | Black Is The New Black

Episode 3 | Black Is The New Black

Acquiring Culture | BBC Two | 2016 | 29'02''

Documentary series celebrating Britain's black community. Our cast of black Britons talk about making it, but making it with a difference.

What does being ”green” mean? | Growing Up Green

What does being ”green” mean? | Growing Up Green

Acquiring Culture | BBC Scotland | 2022 | 2'19''

The kids who grew up in the Findhorn Foundation consider what being "green" means to them and how the term is po...

Composting | Growing Up Green

Composting | Growing Up Green

Acquiring Culture | BBC Scotland | 2022 | 2'09''

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

Free swap shop | Growing Up Green

Free swap shop | Growing Up Green

Acquiring Culture | BBC Scotland | 2022 | 57''

The Findhorn Foundation operate a free swap shop for anything they do not need anymore, open to any residence to pick out whatever they like.

People of talent, people of vision, people of passion | Black Is the New Black

People of talent, people of vision, people of passion | Black Is the New Black

Acquiring Culture | BBC Two | 2016 | 2'40''

Inspirational Black Britons describe what it is like to be Black and British today.

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