Jimmy’s Big Bee Rescue
With Britain’s bees disappearing fast, Jimmy Doherty shows us that we can all help reverse the decline, as he confronts the crisis and asks us to join him in the battle to rescue Britain’s bees
Spring at Jimmy’s Farm
A unique look into Jimmy Doherty’s Suffolk farm as spring bursts into life, from the safety of our homes during these unique times we’re living in.
Kirstie: Keep Crafting and Carry On
Kirstie Allsopp shows us more crafts and skills to help us navigate these unique times.
Scotland – Contains Strong Language
Schooled in Fife, coming of age in a rock ’n’ roll band, then finding her forte was directing temperamental actors, Cora Bissett is no stranger to theatrical Scottish swearing. So who better to present a celebration of Caledonian cursing?
This documentary sees Cora sing, swear and scrutinise why Scotland swears so well. Cora begins with the first hurdle – how does one discuss swear words on the BBC? Aunty Beeb is the institution that has been historically priggish about language – always bleeping words and apologising for those that slipped through. So Cora runs a list past BBC Scotland’s head of editorial standards to see what she can get away with.
She then joins a sociolinguistics class at Glasgow University to understand why swearing offends – are the words the problem, the context, the speakers or the meaning? Next up is a visit to the Scottish National Library in Edinburgh to see William Dunbar’s epic poem The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedie, which contains the first recorded use of the F-word.
Cora takes a bleep-and-you’ll-miss-it tour of swearing in the past three centuries, from the Reformation to the early days of Scottish broadcasting, up to more recent times, where she reveals how comedian Billy Connolly got around the censors with his concert LPs. Pastor Jack Glass labelled Billy ‘manure mouth’, but folk loved Billy’s comedy and his albums were hugely successful.
When James Kelman won the Booker prize in 1994, his novel had over 4,000 F-words. We re-examine the controversy and reaction of the literary establishment in London, who called Kelman a ‘literary savage’.
In more recent times, social media has become the stage for Scottish swearing, and at last a linguist can analyse everyday speech. It turns out that the majority of swear words are not used in an insulting context but are just part of the salty way we speak.
Limmy’s Homemade Show
Before Limmy made it onto BBC Scotland with Limmy’s Show, he became known through his own rough-and-ready funny homemade videos.
When Limmy’s Show stopped, Limmy took to Vine and YouTube, racking up millions of views for videos made on nothing more than his phone. Limmy’s Homemade Show takes the DIY style of his homemade videos – the cast of one, the staying at home and losing his marbles, the going out and about and speaking his mind – and puts it on TV.
In this episode, Limmy is thankful to be on TV and worries about what it would be like if he ever had to go back to having a real job. He spots something terrifying in his mirror that he accidentally recorded on his camera, something he claims actually happened and isn’t at all special effects. And he gives advice to all budding DJs about how to work a crowd, advice that might result in being hit by a flying bottle.
Ready Steady Cook
Rylan Clark-Neal puts the next generation of chefs through their culinary paces.
Age of the Image
Documentary series in which art historian James Fox explores how the power of images has transformed the modern world. James starts at the beginning of the 20th century, when an explosion of scientific and technological advances created radical new ways of looking at the world.
Inside Central Station
Christmas Special
A special festive peek behind the scenes at Glasgow Central. The tree is up, the Christmas shoppers are out and there is a very special visitor to the station concourse.
The Scotts
Comedy shadowing a typical family and their chaotic life. They say blood is thicker than water- and no-one is thicker than The Scotts.
The Falkirk Cowboys
Nearly 50 years ago, in the unlikely setting of the British Aluminium plant in Falkirk, a group of around 20 workers put aside 15p a week from their wages to fund their other lives as film-makers. The Falkirk Cowboys tells the story of those men, their town and the impact of the films they made.
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