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BBC WEEK 46, 13 - 19 November 2010 Programme Information, Television & Radio BBC Scotland Press Office bbc.co.uk/pressoffice bbc.co.uk/iplayer THIS WEEK’S HIGHLIGHTS TELEVISION & RADIO / BBC WEEK 46 _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ SUNDAY 14 NOVEMBER Escape to Glasgow, Prog 1/1 NEW BBC One Scotland Garrow’s Law, Ep 1/4 NEW BBC One Poppies to Remember, Prog 1/1 NEW BBC Radio Scotland Remembrance Service, Prog 1/1 NEW BBC Radio Scotland MONDAY 15 NOVEMBER Donald Trump’s Golf War, Prog 1/1 NEW BBC Two Scotland TUESDAY 16 NOVEMBER Lip Service, Prog 6/6 LAST IN THE SERIES BBC Three WEDNESDAY 17 NOVEMBER Grand Tours of Scotland LAST IN SERIES BBC One Scotland FRIDAY 19 NOVEMBER Children in Need 2010 NEW BBC One, BBC One Scotland & BBC Radio Scotland SUNDAY 14 NOVEMBER TELEVISION & RADIO HIGHLIGHTS / BBC WEEK 46 _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Making Scotland’s Landscape, Prog 4/5 Sunday 14 November BBC One Scotland, 8.00-9.00pm bbc.co.uk/Scotland In this fourth episode of the series on man’s impact and legacy on the Scottish landscape, Professor Iain Stewart gets to grips with Scotland’s most abundant asset – water. As ‘natural’ icons, Scotland's rivers and lochs represent how the nation imagines itself. But as this episode of Making Scotland’s Landscape reveals the only thing that happens to water naturally is rain. Explains Iain: “As soon as it hits the ground it’s ours; we do with it what we will. Today there are scarcely any rivers or natural large bodies of water left untouched by human activity. This is the story of how Scotland's waters became some of the most managed on earth.” The start of the story about Scotland’s plentiful supply of water – 91 per cent of the water in mainland Britain is here in Scotland – does however pre-date man to the ice-age which covered much of Northern Europe. When the ice receded it left behind a landscape almost designed to store and trap water with moisture-laden air constantly rolling in from the sea and 'downloading' as it hits mountain ranges. Iain travels to the Flow Country in Caithness and Flanders Moss, near Stirling, to experience what this would have meant to the earliest Scottish settlers; a landscape of bog on which it was impossible to farm and grow crops. With few areas that could produce food, the implications of a bad winter and harvest were famine, which was what happened in 1690s when the country – and its boggy soil - just could not feed its million people. In Blair Drummond and the Carse of Stirling, Professor Stewart finds out about the driving ambition of Lord Kames and other pioneers to drain the water-logged land to make it produce food and keep people in the country. But as the population soared, water – or the control of water – presented another challenge. Beside the Clyde, Iain reflects on the rapidly developing city of Glasgow of the early 1800s with masses of people, and masses of people dying often of cholera from filthy water supplies. Until the revolutionary idea of fresh water piped in from Loch Katrine became a reality and one of the engineering wonders of the age. Then water became a source of power as the only possible way to provide electric current in quantities sufficient to make the new wonder of the mid 1880s – aluminium. Iain goes to Lochaber and the Falls of Foyers to a hydro electric plant constructed by British Aluminium Company in the heart of a Highlands beauty spot in the 1890s. And at Loch Sloy and Ben Cruachan, he finds out Scotland got ‘hip’ to HEP (hydro electric power), the only energy provider which can literally be available immediately at the press of a button; coal and nuclear powered stations take time to start, but hydro power is generated as soon as the water flows through a turbine. He also walks the dry River Garry and the River Tummel to see exactly how much Scotland’s rivers are controlled and run on a time-table like trains. With water representing a new kind of power in this modern-age, he also reflects on what it could mean for Scotland in the future. The day after each episode BBC Radio Scotland listeners will be able to take their own tour with Iain Stewart in a series of downloadable audio walks reflecting on themes or places in the television series, with further information on the overall project available at bbc.co.ukscotland. Also available online is a special ‘rephotography’ online project at bbc.co.uk/Scotland, with classic archive shots from across the country, inviting members of the public to update them to mark the changing landscapes. Featured pictures include: • Duchray Valley, near Aberfoyle, site part of the pipeline forming part of the Loch Katrine scheme • Mugdock Reservoir - The Mugdock reservoir was formed in a natural valley just north of Milngavie. It provided the original Loch Katrine scheme with storage capacity of 60 acres of water surface. • Loch Tummel - It became part of the Tummel hydro-electric power scheme when the Clunie Dam was constructed at its eastern end in 1950, raising the water level by 4.5 metres. • Loch Thom - is a reservoir which, since 1827, has provided a water supply to the town of Greenock. It is named after the civil engineer Robert Thom who designed the scheme which created the reservoir and delivered water via a long aqueduct known as The Cut. • Whiteadder Reservoir - Built in the 1960s to increase the supply of water across East Lothian, as the existing Hopes Dam was becoming unable to meet increased demand. HM _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Escape to Glasgow, Prog 1/1 NEW Sunday, 14 November BBC One Scotland, 10.25-10.55 pm On Remembrance Sunday, Sally McNair retraces the journey and lives of Britain's first evacuees who fled to Glasgow. The 1,300 children escaped by boat from Guernsey as Hitler's troops advanced on the Channel Islands following Britain's retreat from Dunkirk. It was an exodus which had a traumatic effect on the island community. For many parents who were forced to say their farewells hurriedly on the quayside, it would be five years before they saw their children again. Barry Yeagers, one of those child evacuees, now recalls: "We didn't have a clue where we were going. We were never told." Brenda Bisson, another former evacuee who was taken to Glasgow, adds :"We were on the boat and I couldn't breathe. I suddenly realised - how am I going to see my mum and dad if I am going away? I had never been on a boat before." After disembarking at Weymouth the children travelled north by train to Scotland's largest city. Ann Morris, who hails from Edinburgh, but is now a Guernsey resident, helped organise a trip back to Glasgow for some of the former evacuees, after being inspired by their stories. They visit the places which have lived in the memory, such as St Ninian's Episcopal Church in Pollokshields, where they were billeted before being taken in by local families. They recall their tears and fears at the start of their time in the city and the friendship and warmth of the Glaswegians who cared for them during the war years. Dulcie Couch, now 82, finds her former home in a tenement in Shawlands and is reunited with a childhood friend. The documentary also uncovers the poignant correspondence between the children and their families during the years of separation. They were short, due to censorship, but powerfully conveyed the sense of anxiety and longing on both sides. Ann Morris is on a particularly emotional mission during the visit to Scotland. She had learned of the story of one young islander who didn't make it home. Ronald Gordon Smith was only ten when his mother waved him off. He was cared for by a loving family but in 1944 he died after falling ill with a rare form of cancer. Due to the wartime communications problems, his mother only received the tragic news three months later. Ann says: "To be told your child is dead, and it happened three months ago… how can any mother come to terms with those feelings of not being there for her child?" She has promised Ronald's surviving relatives in Guernsey that she will try and find out more about his time in Scotland and where his final resting place is. Her search takes her to a hill top church near Shotts in Lanarkshire. JG2 _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Garrow’s Law, Prog 1/4 NEW Sunday 14 November BBC One, 9.00-10.00pm Pioneering eighteenth century barrister William Garrow revisits the Old Bailey to champion the rights of prisoners against the power of the State, as BBC One’s acclaimed drama series Garrow’s Law returns for a second series. When 133 African prisoners are thrown overboard slave ship The Zong in suspicious circumstances, Garrow challenges the brutal trade that regards slaves as cargo, not human beings. Widowed and alone in London, Garrow’s friend and mentor Southouse grapples with his inner demons. However, Garrow’s return proves timely as Southouse’s life spirals rapidly into introspection and despair, making him focus on the future and his legal career. Southouse is approached by an insurance company who wish to prosecute The Zong’s Captain Collingwood who is accused of inventing his story in order to conceal a massacre and claim compensation. But Garrow is reluctant to represent the insurers. Unaccustomed to operating as a barrister for the Prosecution, Garrow questions the morality of acting as a mouthpiece for those who effectively support the slave trade.

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