Secondary English

Ian Rankin Investigates: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Writer Ian Rankin investigates The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, tracing Robert Louis Stevenson's story back to event...

Charles Dickens and the Invention of Christmas

Griff Rhys Jones reveals how Dickens created the idea of a traditional family Christmas through one of his best-known books, A...

Pride and Prejudice Revisited

Documentary exploring the enduring appeal of Jane Austen's classic mixture of romance, wit and scathing social satire.

The Secret Life of Books | Frankenstein

In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein manuscripts, Alice Roberts finds someone concerned with the act of creation itself and evidence of hus...

The Secret Life of Books | Jane Eyre

Journalist Bidisha revisits Charlotte Bronte's classic novel after first reading it as a teenager.

The Secret Life of Books | Great Expectations

Tony Jordan brings his writer's insight to Charles Dickens's Great Expectations.

An Inspector Calls (2015)

The mysterious 'Inspector Goole' interrupts a wealthy family's family party to tell them a young woman died of suicide that night.

Lord of the Flies (1963)

Compelling film adaptation of William Golding's disturbing tale of a group of stranded schoolchildren who revert to primitive savagery following a p...

Ian Rankin Investigates: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Writer Ian Rankin investigates The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, tracing Robert Louis Stevenson's story back to event...

Inside the Mind of Robert Burns

Writer Alan Bissett explores the complex brain of Robert Burns - a poetic genius with contradictory attitudes to women, politics and slavery.

Andrew Marr's Great Scots: The Writers Who Shaped a Nation | 3: Hugh Macdiarmid

Andrew Marr looks into the life of poet Hugh MacDiarmid, who reinvented Scots as a language f...

Beyond Burns

Scots Makar Jackie Kay looks at the lives of some of the extraordinary, and often overlooked, poets that Scotland has produced and how they have told, and conti...

In Search of Sir Walter Scott

To mark the 250th anniversary of Sir Walter Scott's birth, author Damian Barr goes in search of the legacy of one of Scotland's great historica...

A Poet's Guide to Britain | 3: George Mackay Brown

Owen Sheers explores poetry set in the British landscape. He looks at George Mackay Brown's Hamnavoe and visits his home t...

In The Dark | Domestic Magic

Family secrets and a murderous being emerge from the shadowy places of a couple’s new home, proving that just because you inherit something does...

Intermediate English: Poetry

Students get a chance to question, interpret and evaluate poems by Carol Ann Duffy and Liz Lochhead.

Episode 1 | Blethering Scots

Ten well-known personalities share their favourite Scots word and celebrate the warmth, wit and grit of the Scots language. Written by Sanjeev K...

Episode 2 | Blethering Scots

Ten more well-known Scottish personalities share their favourite Scots words. Comedian Susan Calman is a wee 'besom', while Elaine C Smith has s...

Rebel Tongue

Alistair Heather sets out on a mission to reclaim the Scots language. For years, Scotland’s ancient tongue was ignored or mocked. Now, one and a half million pe...

1: The Golden Age | The Mother Tongue

First of 3 documentaries tracing the history of the Scots tongue from its origins through to its heyday as the language of court, lite...

2: A Very Corrupt Dialect | The Mother Tongue

Billy KAY examines the roots of prejudice against Lowland Scots from the 1700s onwards in interviews with academics and native ...

3: Pan Loaf and Patter | The Mother Tongue

The final programme in the series in which Billy KAY traces the development of the Scots language.

Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe | Black and British: A Forgotten History

In part three of this groundbreaking series, historian David Olusoga explores the Victoria...