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Coming Soon
Fuine (Baking)
Bho Aois Gu Aois (From Age
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In Production
The Kelpies
Air a' Smùid (Steaming) Restoration of the old Clyde puffer Vic 27 - now renamed Auld Reekie - continues. In March the Islay team were back at work scraping 70 years of rust from the deck of the fo'c'sle. Work is soon to begin on restoring the old coal-fired steam boiler. This three-part series, Air a' Smùid (Steaming) will be transmitted on BBC ALBA. |
Recent Productions
Just Dandy
Comedian Ford, star of Still Game and Chewin' The Fat, meets fellow Dandy fans including comedians Frank Skinner and Sanjeev Kohli, actors Brian Cox and Bill Paterson, writer Alan Bissett, veteran musicians Jimmie Macgregor and Tom Alexander, indie rocker Kyle Falconer from The View, and four-times Oscar-winning Wallace & Gromit animator Nick Park. He also meets some of the writers and artists who helped produce the world's longest-running weekly comic. Caledonia's film follows the production of the last ever print issue of the beloved comic, and Ford becomes a comic-book character himself in an attempt to find out more about The Dandy's digital future from Desperate Dan! Scotland's Greatest
Warrior The rise and fall of the 17th century general, the 1st Marquis of Montrose. In a single year, from the autumn of 1644 to '45, Montrose won six successive battles against stronger armies in the civil wars that engulfed Scotland, England and Ireland. 300 years after that extraordinary military achievement, General Montgomery quoted Montrose in his morale raising message to all British soldiers on the eve of the 1944 D-Day landings. Montrose had written of daring to "win or lose it all" - a line Monty thought appropriate to the do-or-die invasion of the Normandy beaches. The film is presented by Professor Ted Cowan of Glasgow University, a leading expert on Montrose. Sàr- Sgeòil (Classic
Tales)
The Lighthouse Stevensons
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News
Press Scotland's Greatest Warrior Kevin McKenna - The Observer: "One of the highlights of last month's entire television output was a delightful and erudite one-off gem that went out on BBC4 and was commissioned, created and delivered in Scotland. It ought to have reminded BBC Scotland chiefs at Pacific Quay just how dramatic, vibrant and vivid is our own nation's historical narrative. Scotland's Greatest Warrior, the inspirational story of Jamie Graham, the 1st Marquis of Montrose, a man whose life and achievements were genuinely noble, heroic and Scottish, was beautifully narrated by Professor Ted Cowan, director of Glasgow University's Dumfries campus." Just Dandy
Caledonia TV Programme Wins Award The composer of the score for Caledonia's 2011 UK/Australia co-production 'The Father of Australia' has won best music for a documentary in The Australian Guild of Screen Composers Screen Music Awards. Matteo Zingales works with Antony Partos at Sonar Music, who composed the score for drama series 'The Slap'. Fire in the Head
A major theme of the work is the conflict between capitalism and the care of the environment. 'This is a very documentary/current affairs issue,' says Les, 'but in a work of fiction I at last have the freedom never to let the facts interfere with a good story!' Les Wilson talked about the book to playwright and critic Chris Dolan in John Smith's bookshop, Glasgow. Click here to view the video. To read Chris's Sunday Herald review of Fire in the Head, Click here |