Bill Craig's television adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's novel 'Sunset Song', starring Vivien Heilbron as Chris Guthrie, was first broadcast in 1971. It was BBC Scotland's first colour television drama and was broadcast in the United States in 1975-76.

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Billy Kay's radio series, 'Odyssey', broadcast in 1979, captured the diverse experiences of men and women in Scotland: migrants from Donegal, Lithuanians in Lanarkshire, Dundee jute workers, Shetland whalers, and ex-servicemen in Knoydart after WW2.

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In David Kane's tv-drama 'Shadow on the Earth', two boys in West Lothian, influenced by sci-fi movies and the landscapes of the shale bings, become convinced that their neighbour is an alien. 'Shown in the Screen Two Anthology series in 1988.

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This is a terrific series of posts, showing what BBC Scotland could do, back in the days before it became BBC tartan shortbread and Scotland-Bad news.
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'Maggie', a BBC Scotland television drama series, was broadcast on BBC Two between 1981 and 1982. It was based on a quartet of novels by Joan Lingard and starred Kirsty Miller as Maggie McKinley. The signature song was by B.A. Robertson.

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'Scotland's Music: A Radio History', written, researched, and presented by composer and musicologist John Purser, was broadcast in 30 episodes on BBC Radio Scotland in 1992, and in an expanded version of 51 episodes in 2007.

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In 1991, the poet Sorley MacLean appeared on Muriel Gray's television series, 'The Munro Show', providing Gaelic language input, etymology, and pronunciation guides for Scottish mountain and hill names.

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'The Vital Spark', a television series based on Neil Munro's Para Handy stories set on the West Coast of Scotland in the 1930s, was broadcast between 1965 and 1974, starring Roddy McMillan as Peter "Para Handy" MacFarlane.

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Robert Kemp's 'The Other Dear Charmer', about the love affair between Robert Burns and Agnes Maclehose, was first broadcast as a radio play on the Scottish Home Service in 1951, then as BBC Scotland's first television drama on the BBC-tv network in January 1953.

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Tom Fleming was in the cast of a shortened version of Hugh MacDiarmid's poem 'A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle' (1926) broadcast in 1954. His reading of the full poem was broadcast in the Saturday Night Theatre series in 1976, and repeated on Radio 3.

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'At BBC Scotland we care...' | Advert from the theatre programme for Bill Bryden's 'The Ship', September 1990.

How things have changed over 36 years! 🙄

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BBC Scotland employed Bill Bryden as Head of Television Drama between 1984 and 1993. In 1987 it produced John Byrne's six-part drama series 'Tutti Frutti', which won six BAFTAs and brought many of the cast to national prominence.

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