Articles categorised as TV

The Bonnie Lass o Fyvie

A favourite from the North East, this is another of those love songs with a tragic ending. Performed by the Joe Gordon Folk Four, this video is from the old BBC TV programme, The White Heather Club.

Joyce Falconer is Centre's Scots voice

In the next few weeks visitors to the Scots Language Centre will be able to listen to, as well as read, the Scots words which are described in the Scots Word of the Week feature on the Centre's...

Unspeakable Scot

English broadcasters at ITV have been told off for letting a Scot use swear words on television, the Daily Record reported this week. Apparently the broadcasters didn’t know that a Glasgow man in...

Joyce Falconer talks about return to River City

Scots speaking actor, Joyce Falconer, has been back in BBC Scotland’s soap, River City, for the funeral of her small screen sister, Shona. In this interview for STV, Joyce talks about the...

River City’s Scarlett wants to write Scots

Popular River City character, Scarlett Adams, has told small screen friend, university professor Michael Learmonth, that she’d like to learn to write in her own dialect. Scarlett has only recently...

David Toulmin - A Chiel Amang Them

Author and farm labourer, David Toulmin began his life as John Reid. Hugely popular in North East Scotland in the sixties and seventies his books frequently sold out in the region and borrowing...

An Aberdeen football fan

Popular stage show Scotland The What poked fun at life in the North East. In this film an Aberdeen football fan wishes his club success. It is part of the Scottish Screen Archive.Scotland the...

Irish language activist explores hidden Ulster Scots culture

An unusual and controversial perspective on the Ulster Scots language and culture is explored in a one hour documentary film, directed by an Irish language activist. Deaglán Ó Mocháin’s film, The...

BBC discussion on Scots attitudes survey

The recent Scottish Government survey on attitudes to Scots is discussed on BBC Scotland.

TV pilot for Doric comedy

Desperate Fishwives, the North East based Doric comedy radio show, is to get its first airing on TV on Tuesday 14 December. On BBC2 at 10.00 pm the show is then available to watch on BBC iplayer...

Government Responds to the Ministerial Working Group

On Friday last week, the Scottish Government published its response to the recommendations of the Ministerial Working Group on the Scots Language. The response comments about recommendations on...

The news in Scots

BBC Scotland has produced a range of new Scots language resources. Check them out at the BBC Learning Zone.

Scotspeak

Scotspeak was first published by the SLC’s predecessor organisation, the Scots Language Resource Centre. It was hugely popular with actors and others who wanted to know what Scots and Scottish...

Alasdair Allan's Presentation to the Cross-Party Group

At the cross-party group meeting on 13 December 2011, Dr Alastair Allan, the Minister for Learning and Skills, gave CPG members an update on progress on the Scottish Government's policy on Scots....