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THIS WEEK’S HIGHLIGHTS TELEVISION & RADIO / BBC WEEK 32

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SATURDAY 8 AUGUST Belladrum 2015: Cridhe Tartan NEW BBC ALBA

SUNDAY 9 AUGUST Scotland’s Home Movies  NEW BBC One Scotland

TUESDAY 11 AUGUST Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace NEW BBC Two Scotland

FRIDAY 14 AUGUST Mountain Goats  NEW BBC One ______

Viewers outside Scotland can access BBC One Scotland on Sky 141 (HD) & 951, Freesat 108 (HD) & 960, Virgin Media 108 (HD) & 862. BBC Two Scotland can be viewed on Sky 142 (HD) & 970, Freesat 970. BBC ALBA is on Sky 143, Freesat 110, Virgin Media 188, Freeview 8 (Scotland only). BBC Radio Scotland can be accessed on Sky 0116, Freesat 712, Freeview 719 (Scotland only). BBC One Scotland, BBC Two Scotland and BBC ALBA are also available on the BBC iPlayer bbc.co.uk/iplayer & BBC Radio Scotland on bbc.co.uk/radioscotland EDITORIAL 2015 / BBC WEEK 32 ______

BBC UNVEILS STAR-STUDDED LINE-UP FOR EDINBURGH FESTIVALS

An eclectic mix of great names, including Paul Merton, Joanne Harris, Jo Brand, Rory Bremner, The Proclaimers, Sylvie Guillem, Denise Mina, Imran Yusuf, Nish Kumar and Ian Rankin will star in the BBC’s wide-ranging output at the Edinburgh Festivals next month.

Most of the content will come from the BBC’s Festivals venue at Potterrow, where a host of acts will be on stage over three weeks from Friday 7 August, with more shows and events also taking place in other venues throughout the city.

BBC Scotland’s Head of Programmes and Services, Donalda MacKinnon, said she believes this year’s coverage should ensure that there is something for everyone, both in Edinburgh and for those listening and watching at home.

“The Edinburgh Festivals are always one of the highlights of my year and I’m delighted that the BBC plays its part in making it such a fantastic spectacle. I’m always amazed at the enormous range that our production teams from across the BBC offer in Edinburgh and our cast list this year really does educate, entertain and inform,” she said.

Highlights this year include The One Show and BBC Breakfast live from Potterrow and TV specials, Edinburgh Nights, with Kirsty Wark, and Sue Perkins’ Big Night Out, while of course Edinburgh wouldn’t be complete without The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo.

Our digital teams have a raft of content available throughout next month curated under bbc.co.uk/edinburghfestivals and we’ll also have live streams produced in partnership with the Edinburgh International Festival and Book Festival featuring interviews with Sylvie Guillem, Juliette Binoche, Simon McBurney, Jesse Jackson, Val McDermid and Nicola Sturgeon and Liz Lochhead.

Radio will bring a wide variety of content including Simon Mayo’s Drivetime, the Radio 2 Arts and Saturday Breakfast shows, Jazz on 3, Late Junction, In Tune and World on 3 and the BBC SSO’s performance at the opening concert of the 2015 EIF, conducted by Donald Runnicles, will be broadcast at a later date.

Radio 4 and 4 Extra output includes Front Row, Saturday Review, Just a Minute, Loose Ends; 5 Live and 6 Music bring Afternoon Edition and Shaun Keaveny while the Asian Network will also be in town with their Big Comedy Night, the Nihal show and the Tommy Sandhu breakfast show.

And, of course, Radio Scotland are always at the heart of the Edinburgh action with Kaye Adams and Janice Forsyth broadcasting their daily programmes live along with Breaking the News, Vic Galloway, Jazz House and Travelling Folk.

“Edinburgh in August is the best place in the world to discover new artists, performers and entertainers. It’s a privilege for the BBC to bring our biggest and most extraordinary cultural festival to a wider audience,” said the BBC’s Director of Arts, Jonty Claypole.

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A full press release is available at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2015/line-up-edinburgh-festivals

Further updates available at: bbc.co.uk/edinburghfestivals | bbc.co.uk/arts facebook.com/BBCEdFest | @BBCEdFest | #BBCEdFest

Notes to Editors about BBC Scotland Edinburgh Festival productions.

BBC Scotland Festival fare includes;

On BBC Two, Friday evenings will see Kirsty Wark present Edinburgh Nights, bringing interviews, performances and music from across the Festivals. Sylvie Guillem will talk to Kirsty about her career in ballet and contemporary dance as she brings her farewell tour to the Edinburgh International Festival, whilst art critic Alastair Sooke offers his personal highlights from the Art Festival. Kirsty will also investigate the discovery of lost scripts from the 1950s comedy programme Hancock’s Half Hour, which were unearthed by actor and book dealer Neil Pearson, and are now being performed at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Musical performances will include pianist and composer Chilly Gonzales who will be performing with the Hamburg-based Kaiser Quartett. The first two episodes of Edinburgh Nights will also be broadcast on BBC World News. BBC Two will bring a celebration of the Festivals to our televisions on Saturday 29 August at 9pm. Recorded as live at Potterrow, Sue Perkins’ Big Night Out will feature special guests and performance highlights from across this year’s Edinburgh Festivals in a one hour cabaret of comedy, music and spectacle. A further special programme made by BBC Scotland will celebrate 50 Years of the Edinburgh Festival Chorus by following the creation of a spectacular outdoor audio-visual show to mark the birthday of this world-class choir. BBC One’s August coverage of the Festivals concludes on Monday 31 August with a showcase of the very best of the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo. With the RAF taking the lead for this year’s Tattoo, there will be dramatic performances aplenty including their Massed Bands. And with the theme being East Meets West, there will also be a great range of international acts including the worldwide sensation, Top Secret Drum Corps from Basle in Switzerland.

Kaye Adams brings her new BBC Radio Scotland programme to Potterrow on Monday-Thursday mornings. Kaye will be talking to some of the biggest names at Edinburgh in front of a daily live audience and will be joined by a number of special guest co-hosts, including Scottish comedian Karen Dunbar and impressionist Rory Bremner. Janice Forsyth will bring us all the richness of the Festivals as she takes her afternoon programme out and about. In front of live audiences at Potterrow, and for a special week of programmes at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre, Janice will have the most comprehensive coverage and review of the Festivals on Radio Scotland’s home of Scottish arts and culture. On Tuesday 11 August you can also watch Janice’s show live via the BBC Edinburgh Festivals website. Radio Scotland’s new weekly comedy news panel game Breaking the News will be recorded at Potterrow in front of a live audience. Host Des Clarke will be joined by journalists and comedians to give a different perspective on the week’s news. Julia Sutherland introduces the comedians who dare to tackle cancer, terminal illness, euthanasia and soul crushing grief, and make it a little easier to talk about and cope with life's most difficult and challenging times, in A Funny Kind of Life… and Death. The eclectic live music scene will be explored in special editions of The Jazz House, Travelling Folk and the Vic Galloway Show, which on Monday, August 24 will feature highlights of special 6 Music sessions at Edinburgh featuring performances from a variety of Scottish acts, including indie rockers Idlewild, orchestral indie pop group Admiral Fallow, singer-songwriter Kathryn Joseph, musician and composer C Duncan and Honeyblood.

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra is to perform the Opening Concert of the 2015 Edinburgh International Festival. Chief Conductor Donald Runnicles will be at the helm for Richard Strauss's monumental Ein Heldenleben which will be recorded and broadcast on Radio 3 at a later date. Also during the Festival, the BBC SSO will perform Max Richter's Memoryhouse and Recomposed, a postmodern 'remix' of Vivaldi's Four Seasons with violinist Daniel Hope at the Edinburgh Playhouse. BBC Scotland also produces concerts from the EIF for broadcast on BBC Radio 3 – this year they are live again for three weeks from the Queen’s Hall (15 presented concerts by Donald MacLeod and Jamie MacDougall) and there are highlights from the prestigious Beethoven Piano Sonata series featuring Rudolf Buchbinder. There’s also another Scottish Opera production - an all-star cast of HMS Pinafore for Opera on 3 - well as three other evening concerts; Philharmonia Orchestra and Lang Lang (piano) performing Bartok Piano Concerto No 2; the Philharmonia and Edinburgh Festival Chorus performing the gigantic Messe des Morts by Berlioz; and the wonderfully vivacious Budapest Festival Orchestra performing Mozart’s Requiem.

BBC Radio Nan Gàidheal will be bringing Feasgar, its magazine programme, and Rapal, its live music show, to Edinburgh on Thursday 27 and Friday 28 August.

BBC Scotland Arts will be producing live streams and digital content for BBC Arts Online. And as ever, BBC Scotland News will provide up-to-date reports with Arts correspondent Pauline McLean out and about across the capital city.

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Belladrum 2015: Cridhe Tartan  TV HIGHLIGHT Saturday 8 August BBC ALBA, 9.00 - 11.00pm

BBC ALBA will screen a host of acclaimed Scottish and international acts as the channel provides exclusive coverage of Scotland’s celebrated music festival, Belladrum Tartan Heart. For the first time, Belladrum is a three day event and more than 15,000 fans will descend on the picturesque site by Beauly, Inverness-shire, to see the festival’s eclectic mix of acts including the Garden Stage headliners: Kaiser Chiefs, Manic Street Preachers and The Proclaimers. Fiona MacKenzie and Niall Iain MacDonald host three special live shows - Belladrum 2015: Cridhe Tartan on BBC ALBA from Thursday 6 to Saturday 8 August and will be bringing exclusive interviews and all the best coverage and highlights from Belladrum’s Garden Stage and Grassroots Stage. Among the acts leading Thursday’s coverage will be Scotland’s most famous twin brothers, Charlie and Craig Reid, better known as the seminal band The Proclaimers. There will undoubtedly be some singalongs to hits such as I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) and Letter from America whilst festival goers will be hoping the Sunshine on Leith extends further north to Beauly for this anticipated set. Friday’s schedule includes a headlining performance from another iconic band, Manic Street Preachers. In a career spanning almost thirty years, the Welsh outfit continue to challenge and excite, with a range of releases including last year’s album Futurology demonstrating that members James Dean Bradfield, Nicky Wire and Sean Moore still possess the ability to produce critically acclaimed music whilst maintaining widespread popular appeal. The three-day festival is topped off on Saturday by indie rockers, Kaiser Chiefs. Since 2003, the Leeds band has recorded a slew of hit records including singles Ruby, Never Miss A Beat and I Predict A Riot. The band is currently working on their sixth studio album, from which they released the single Falling Awake earlier this year.

Gary McQueen / Lorna Gardner

SUNDAY 9 AUGUST TELEVISION & RADIO HIGHLIGHTS / BBC WEEK 32 ______

Scotland’s Home Movies, Ep 1/1  NEW Sunday 9 Aug BBC One Scotland, 7.00 – 8.00pm

This hour long film is a nostalgic look at how home movie making in Scotland became a cultural phenomenon. Featuring fascinating and poignant cine films and the makers and stars of the movies themselves, it also includes some of the very first examples of Scottish Home Movies from the 1920s. While cinema itself was still in its infancy, the idea of making movies for yourself wasn’t far behind. But early cine cameras were hand-cranked, mechanical and cumbersome. They were also expensive, too costly for all but the wealthiest. By the 1940s and 50s, after the horrors of World War II, home movie making really took off, capturing the austerity of the 1940s and the prosperity of the 1950s. Cheaper cameras meant that Scotland’s middle classes were now also able to capture their lives on film.By the 1960s there was a sense that anything was possible. It was a truly dynamic period in British history. Revolutions in youth culture, music and fashion transformed the look and feel of the country. Home movie making became a cultural wonder with people from all walks of life taking up the hobby.

TUESDAY 11 AUGUST TELEVISION & RADIO HIGHLIGHTS / BBC WEEK 32 ______

River City Tuesday 11 August BBC One Scotland HD, 8.00 – 9.00pm bbc.co.uk/rivercity facebook.com/bbcrivercity twitter.com/bbcrivercity instagram.com/bbcrivercity

This week in Shieldinch…Kelly-Marie’s pregnancy news delights Alex and the family but she feels trapped; uncertainty looms large over Robbie and Will’s marriage; and Lenny’s tempted to invest his fortune in a new project of Erin’s. Kelly-Marie’s not feeling well but hides the truth about her health from Alex – she’s pregnant. However, her attempts to keep the unplanned pregnancy secret are later uncovered by Alex. With the weight of the world on her shoulders, Kelly-Marie’s day goes from bad to worse when the police take her in for questioning over Shug and the stolen booze heist. Back at the flat, Alex pretends to guess Kelly-Marie’s pregnant. Taking it as a sign of a new future together, Alex is thrilled but Kelly-Marie is far-from-happy at the thought of having a baby with a man she doesn’t love. While Kelly-Marie considers what to do next, an increasingly controlling Alex ignores her wishes to keep their baby news a secret, announcing it to her delighted mum, Scarlett and the family. Elsewhere, Robbie and Will are forced to face up to some harsh truths about their future while Lenny’s interest is spiked by a lucrative new business deal Erin’s involved in.

Kelly-Marie is played by Carmen Pieraccini, Alex by Jordan Young, Robbie by Gary Lamont, Will by Scott Vickers, Lenny by Frank Gallagher, Erin by Emma Hartley-Miller, Scarlett by Sally Howitt, Molly by Una McLean, Gabriel by Garry Sweeney and Patrick by Gerard Miller.

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Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace, Ep 1/1  NEW Tuesday 11 August BBC Two Scotland, 9.00-10.00pm

Narrated by Brian Cox, this programme celebrates the life of Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919), a poor immigrant who sailed from Dunfermline to America in the 1840s, and by the end of the century would be the world’s richest man. From his Scottish highland retreat, Skibo Castle, Carnegie spent his final years giving away everything he had earned to philanthropic causes, and using his vast influence to get Theodore Roosevelt, Kaiser Wilhelm II and King Edward VII to create a framework for world peace in the run up to the World War 1. It was a plan doomed to failure. Produced by Galeforce Films, Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace features contributions from Sir Tom Hunter and Carnegie’s great grandchildren Margaret and William Thomson. It reveals the untold story of a man with incredible vision, whose dream of a world without conflict ended in tatters and led him to die a broken man.

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Mountain Goats, Ep 1/6  NEW Friday, August 14 BBC One, 10.35-11.05pm

Set around the antics of a ragtag group of Mountain Rescue volunteers, new sitcom Mountain Goats celebrates the Highlands of Scotland, with proper kilt wearing maniacs fighting disaster on a weekly basis against the stunning backdrop of the Glencoe hills. When our heroes aren’t out rescuing people, or being rescued themselves, they spend their time in ‘The Old Goat’ pub - a place of great warmth and camaraderie, where people come in for a quick pint and never want to leave. The regulars in the pub are Jimmy (Jimmy Chisholm), an old school mountain goat with a fag burn in his jumper and a glint of mischief in his bloodshot eyes, the wild and mysterious Bill (David Ireland), Bernie, (Kathryn Howden) a cheery, hard-working woman, who keeps the others on the straight and narrow, and Conor, (Kevin Mains) a handsome, easy-going young man who is more than a little bit naive. Their HQ is in the local pub, and the landlady is Jules (Sharon Rooney) - a formidable force of nature who’ll have you out on your ear at the first sign of trouble.

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