Scotland's History
Radio
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Accompanying the television series and the website, 91Èȱ¬ Radio Scotland has a rich menu of history programmes planned, beginning in November 2008.
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These range from What You Didn't Learn In School – which looks at those topics which seem to have slipped off the educational radar and examines the reason why – to The Highland/Lowland History Of Scotland which, as an experiment in bilingual history programming, explores the contrasting views of the same key historic moments through Gaelic and Lowland eyes.
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In addition, to involve people in the fun side of historical detective work, Scottish History – The Missing Bits will run as a feature in the series Past Lives, encouraging listeners to send in their queries about Scotland's vanished local history.
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What's gone missing in your area? A mercat cross? A Pictish stone? A demolished country house? Radio Scotland will try and help solve the mystery.
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Hooked On History will challenge history experts to choose their favourite objects, characters and stories from the past and No Going Back features communities turning the clock back to a major event that changed them forever.
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A series of audio walks, Walking Through History, has been co-produced with the Open University to accompany the television series, and will be available as MP3 downloads, along with maps. These have been re-versioned as feature programmes for broadcast on Radio Scotland.
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In addition, Radio Scotland will also transmit Odyssey Revisited, the much lauded series on oral history, made by Billy Kay in the Eighties.
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As well as dedicated feature programming, there will be coverage of Scotland's History concerts and the project will be reflected in a number of special editions of 91Èȱ¬ Radio Scotland's History Zone, available 24 hours a day, seven days a week online at bbc.co.uk/radioscotland
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No Going Back
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Three-part series, starting Thursday 6 November at 11.30am, focusing on a community reliving an event from living memory which has had an irrevocable impact on local life. Charles Kennedy presents the first episode looking at why aluminium came to Lochaber, while in successive episodes Iain MacDonald will describe the impact of Kessock Bridge on the north, and Jackie O'Brien the impact of Dounreay in Caithness.
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Odyssey Revisited
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Four editions from the Odyssey oral history programmes that Billy Kay made for Radio Scotland in the Eighties, starting on Sunday 9 November at 3.30pm.
Includes: From The Gorbals To Gweedore, the story of the Glasgow Irish; Italiani In Scozzia; The Fisher Lassies, fisher queans away from home at the herring gutting; and The Booth Boxers, fairground boxers tell their story.
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Walking Through History
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A series of audio tours, produced in collaboration with the Open University, will be available as MP3 downloads (along with maps) for a walks around a number of locations in Scotland rich in history. These atmospheric journeys through time and space, presented by Neil Oliver, will also be re-versioned as full length features for Radio Scotland, starting on Monday 10 November at 11.30am with early Scottish civilisation at Kilmartin Glen, in Argyll. Other locations will include Finlaggan, on Islay, Cambuskenneth, Dunfermline Abbey and Mary Queen of Scots' Edinburgh.
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The Highland/Lowland History Of Scotland
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This innovative three-part series, in partnership with Radio nan Gaidheal, begins Wednesday 12 November at 11.30am.
We talk about Scottish history but never ask whose Scottish history it is. Lowlander and English speaker Louise Welsh and Highlander and Gaelic speaker Domhnall Uilleam Stiubhart look at key moments and events in our past and discover how different they can look depending who you speak to.
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Hooked On History
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Presenter Fiona Watson takes four experts and challenges them to define their favourite objects, characters, stories and artefacts from history. Starts Thursday 27 November at 11.30am.
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What You Didn't Learn In School
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Starting on Sunday 7 December at 11.30am, this series looks at how Scottish history has been taught in school and how this has always provoked concern in Scotland even now.
Along the way it will highlight some of the personalities, issues, battles, themes and crises from Scotland's past which seemed to have bypassed many a Scottish classroom.
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