BBC WEEK 29, 19 - 25 July 2014 Programme Information, Television & Radio BBC Scotland Press Office bbc.co.uk/mediacentre bbc.co.uk/iplayer facebook.com/BBCScotland twitter.com/BBCScotland

THIS WEEK’S HIGHLIGHTS TELEVISION & RADIO / BBC WEEK 29

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SATURDAY 19 JULY Live at Edinburgh Castle  NEW BBC One

SUNDAY 20 JULY Queen’s Baton Relay  TV HIGHLIGHT BBC Two Scotland Seven Wonders of the Commonwealth  NEW BBC One Don’t Drop the Baton  NEW BBC One Scotland

MONDAY 21 JULY On the Road 2014  LAST IN SERIES BBC One Scotland Live at the Commonwealth  NEW BBC One

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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 2014 / BBC WEEK 29 ______

BBC Radio Scotland at pop-up festival BBC at the Quay

BBC Radio Scotland will be at the heart of Glasgow 2014, going live to every Scottish medal, as well as broadcasting musical treats including Wet Wet Wet and a host of shows from BBC Scotland’s pop- up festival BBC at the Quay.

Special programming begins on Saturday 19 July at 11.05am with BBC at The Quay: John Beattie’s Commonwealth Games. John and guests launch BBC Scotland’s 16 day festival and look ahead to the sporting action.

The BBC Big Band and guest soloist American saxophonist join presenters Claire Martin and Julian Joseph in a special edition of Jazz Line Up from the banks of the River Clyde at 6.00pm on Saturday 19 July, live on BBC Radio Scotland and Radio 3.

Radio Scotland, Radio Wales and Radio Ulster join forces on Sunday 20 July at 8.00pm with a simultaneous transmission of Celtic Connections with Bruce MacGregor, a concert for BBC at the Quay featuring Shooglenifty, Capercaillie and BBC Radio Scotland’s Young Traditional Musician of the Year, Robyn Stapleton.

Bryan Burnett will be live from BBC at the Quay on Monday 21 July from 10.30am – 12 noon, to bring you the sights, sounds and atmosphere as the Games descend on Glasgow. MacAulay & Co will be on air live from the Quay on Friday 25 July, and on Friday 1 August their show will come live from the Waverley on the River Clyde.

Every weekday throughout the games Fred MacAulay and Eleanor Oldroyd will host Glasgow Live with Fred and Elly, a BBC Radio Scotland and 5Live simulcast. Each afternoon they’ll broadcast live from a different location in the city, joined by star guests from the world of sport and show business. Prior to this show starting on Wednesday 23 August, The Culture Studio with Ricky Ross will broadcast live from BBC at the Quay on Monday 21 and Tuesday 22 July from 2.00pm – 4.00pm.

The Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony broadcasts live from Celtic Park on Radio Scotland on Wednesday 23 July from 8.05pm, with Jackie Bird, Richard Gordon, David Wilkie and Tom English.

Bruce MacGregor and Kirsteen MacDonald present a night of music and song with Commonwealth Ceilidh on Thursday 24 July at 8.00pm. They’ll be joined by Karen Matheson, Donald Shaw, singer- songwriter Siobhan Miller, Kris Drever and Gaelic five piece band, Dàimh. This show will simulcast live on Radio Scotland and Radio nan Gaidheal, with televised highlights available on BBC ALBA on Saturday 26 July.

An Americana and roots-themed concert takes place in Another Country with Ricky Ross on Sunday 27 July from 8.00pm, featuring a solo set from Steve Earle, Sharon Shannon & her Big Band and an acoustic performance from Roddy Hart with members of The Lonesome Fire.

BBC Radio Scotland presents Wet Wet Wet on Monday 28 July at 8.00pm. Ken Bruce hosts this very special concert in their home city as the band play a hit packed set with their best loved tracks from the past 30 years. The concert is also available to watch via live stream bbc.co.uk/thequay. Commonwealth Games Live with BBC Asian Network simulcasts on Radio Scotland on Tuesday 29 July at 7.30pm.

Iain Anderson presents a live version of his show on Wednesday 30 July from 10.00pm. On Thursday 31 July Janey Godley hosts Glasgow Banter from 11.30am to 12 noon from the BBC at the Quay tent, joined by Des Clarke, Iain Stirling, Raymond Mearns and Phil Nicol.

Vic Galloway hosts a special live BBC Introducing show on Thursday 31 July at 8.05pm, joined by genre-defying duo Public Service Broadcasting, sophisticated synth-pop trio Prides and indie rock three-piece PAWS. In a show pre-recorded at BBC at the Quay on 30 July Robbie Shepherd presents Take the Floor on Saturday 2 August at 7.00pm, joined by Robert Black and his Scottish Dance Band and Blazin' Fiddles.

In addition to all the action at BBC at the Quay, BBC Commonwealth Voices starts broadcasting from the Forge Shopping Centre in the east end of Glasgow on Wednesday 16 July. For three weeks the online pop-up station will broadcast between 10am and 4pm, telling the cultural story of Glasgow 2014 and the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. Students from Glasgow’s Kelvin College will be working alongside Radio Scotland production teams, with Cat Cubie, Colin Kelly and Ian Hamilton hosting through the week, and Julia Sutherland and Stephen Duffy taking the helm at weekends. bbc.co.uk/commonwealthvoices

Susie Sandilands Karen Higgins

SATURDAY 19 JULY TELEVISION & RADIO HIGHLIGHTS / BBC WEEK 29 ______

BBC at the Quay Saturday 19 July – Sunday 3 August bbc.co.uk/thequay

BBC at the Quay, the pop-up performance area at Pacific Quay will be a hive of cultural activity for all the family, over 16 days, to celebrate the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. Highlights in the first week include The One Show, BBC Radio 2’s Ken Bruce Show, BBC Radio 1’s Breakfast show with Nick Grimshaw, Ford Kiernan and Greg Hemphill in conversation with Kaye Adams, Radio 5 Live and Radio Scotland at the Games, Celebrity Mastermind with John Humphrys and lots more. Full details can be found at bbc.co.uk/thequay

Please note, daily prospects will be sent out to news and feature desks detailing the events and programmes taking place, along with advice on pictures that will be sent out from events.

Karen Higgins

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Live at Edinburgh Castle  NEW Saturday 19 July BBC One HD bbc.co.uk/edinburghcastle

A spectacular concert Live at Edinburgh Castle with a glittering array of big names will be shown on BBC One HD, ahead of the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. Presented by The One Show’s Alex Jones in front of one of Scotland’s most iconic landmarks, Edinburgh will be welcoming a wide range of international musical acts, including, Jessie J, Kaiser Chiefs, Smokey Robinson, Culture Club, Rizzle Kicks, Paloma Faith, Ella Henderson, Katherine Jenkins, Il Divo, One Republic, Alfie Boe and Pumeza. The music will also be interspersed with comedy on the night, as Bill Bailey performs his unique brand of musical humour with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Fred MacAulay makes a special guest appearance. Some of the performances will be accompanied by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and a house band, led by Mike Stevens, who has worked with artists including Gary Barlow and Annie Lennox. The concert will also include the final leg of the Queen's Baton Relay before it arrives in Glasgow for the Commonwealth Games.

Karen Higgins

SUNDAY 20 JULY TELEVISION & RADIO HIGHLIGHTS / BBC WEEK 29 ______

Seven Wonders of the Commonwealth, Ep 1/1  NEW Sunday 20 July BBC One, 9.10pm – 10.10pm

From a forest in the ocean to one of the driest most sparsely populated deserts in the world, this one- off documentary completes a memorable journey through some of the extraordinary natural beauties of the Commonwealth. Featuring seven countries, Clare Balding, Dan Snow, Denise Lewis, Anita Rani and Reggie Yates travel the globe uncovering the natural wonders of the Commonwealth. Dan Snow travels to Milford Sound, New Zealand where he kayaks alongside bottlenose dolphins. He then visits the world’s largest mangrove forest in Bangladesh where he meets the ‘the honey hunters’. The hives are not only guarded by bees but by the man eating Royal Bengal Tigers, making harvesting extremely dangerous. Anita Rani visits the oldest, driest desert on earth, the Namib in Africa where temperatures can reach 50°C. In Papua New Guinea, Anita encounters the incredible Raggiana bird and experiences tribal life. Reggie Yates journeys to the largest uninhabited island in the Solomons, surrounded by pristine coral reefs. He also encounters the skulls of cannibal Rovianan chiefs and the remains of their enemies which are still kept on one sacred island. Denise Lewis experiences the most spectacular waterfall on earth, the Victoria Falls, Zambia. At 1700m wide and 100m high it is twice the size of the Niagara falls. Back in Scotland Clare Balding follows in the footsteps of Felix Mendelssohn who was inspired by the volcanic Fingal’s Cave of Staffa.

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Queen’s Baton Relay: A Commonwealth Odyssey Sunday 20 July BBC Two Scotland, 6.00 – 7.00pm bbc.co.uk/queensbatonrelay

On the day the Queen’s Baton Relay arrives in Glasgow, adventurer Mark Beaumont presents a special programme on the epic journey the baton has been on since it left Glasgow in October 2013. By the time the baton arrives at Celtic Park for the opening ceremony of Glasgow 2014 it will have travelled almost 120,000 miles and visited 70 nations and territories of the Commonwealth. This programme brings some of the highlights of that journey and looks at how the many cultures, countries and characters that make up the Commonwealth are preparing for the Games in Glasgow. Mark meets some of the best athletes in the world, and hears of their ambitions for Glasgow 2014, and also the young people who are using sport to change their lives. He also visits some of the smallest and most remote communities on the planet and finds out how the Games offer a rare chance to compete and be recognised on the international stage. The Queen’s Baton Relay is one of the most ambitious journeys ever undertaken and this programme shows, for the first time, the relay’s scale and introduces just some of the many thousand members of the Commonwealth who have encountered the baton.

Karen Higgins

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Don’t Drop the Baton 1/2  NEW Sunday 20 July BBC One Scotland, 10.35 – 11.05pm

As part of the BBC’s Commonwealth Games coverage, BBC One Scotland brings a brand new two- part comedy series Don’t Drop the Baton. Starring comedians Susan Calman and Mark Nelson, there will be a mixture of topical stand-up and sketches relating to all things Glasgow 2014. In the first episode, to be shown prior to the Games starting, we meet a range of colourful characters including: Lovable volunteer, Betty, who attends the Clydesiders’ Training Centre only to discover it is not quite the friendly games she was expecting, the calamitous Creative Council who aim for the stars to ensure the Opening Ceremony is a real showstopper, the Head of Planning executive, Jill Travis, who learns a few surprising last minute facts about the Games, an unlikely speed swimmer aiming to shave another few seconds off his personal best, and brow-beaten Dougie who performs under immense pressure as his wife Yvie takes planning to a whole new level. The sketches have been filmed around Glasgow and feature some of the new Games venues. The second episode will be shown after the Commonwealth Games in August. Along with Susan Calman and Mark Nelson, the cast includes James Kirk, Gabriel Quigley, Paul McCole, Sally Reid and Arron Usher. The first episode also includes a special guest appearance from Sheila Donald (The Steamie). The series is written by Susan Calman, Mark Nelson, James Kirk and Steven Dick.

Karen Higgins

MONDAY 21 JULY TELEVISION & RADIO HIGHLIGHTS / BBC WEEK 29 ______

On the Road 2014, 6/6  LAST IN SERIES Monday 21 July BBC One Scotland, 7.30 – 8.00pm

In the final episode of On the Road 2014, Fred MacAulay joins secret rehearsals for the Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony in Glasgow. Fred also heads to Brechin to join Scotland's motorbike enthusiasts at 'Harley Davidson in the City', a celebration of all things touring bike, and finds out why Scotland's next big motorbike festival in Aviemore in August 'Thunder in the Glen' is a must see. Meanwhile Martel Maxwell visits the Covesea Skerries Lighthouse in Lossiemouth to reveal the history of the Stevenson lighthouse that is about to open regularly to the public for the very first time. In other stories this week guest presenter Muriel Gray gets a sneak preview of ‘The Tin Forest', the National Theatre of Scotland's ambitious performance piece which will mix puppeteering and high tech digital mapping to tell a story of regeneration. Cat Cubie heads to Carrbridge, near Granton on Spey, to investigate their outsized annual wood carving event. Plus comedian Phill Jupitus reveals his plans for his new art show 'Sketch Comic' as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe at Scotland's National Galleries.

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Live at the Commonwealth  NEW Monday 21 July BBC One, 10.35pm – 11.15pm

Top Scottish comedian Kevin Bridges hosts this very special night of comedy live from Glasgow’s legendary Theatre Royal to celebrate this summer’s Commonwealth Games coming to the city. Kevin Bridges Live At The Commonwealth will see Kevin take to the stage in front of a live theatre audience and present four internationally renowned comics from the Commonwealth countries. Appearing on stage are Canada’s finest Katherine Ryan, top South African comedian Trevor Noah, Scotland’s own Danny Bhoy and English comic Simon Evans. Kevin Bridges Live At The Commonwealth is the first of three Kevin Bridges BBC One specials to air, with a further two shows - Kevin Bridges Live At The Referendum and Kevin Bridges What’s The Story - Referendum Special, due for broadcast later this year.

Alison Peters

TUESDAY 22 JULY TELEVISION & RADIO HIGHLIGHTS / BBC WEEK 29 ______

River City Tuesday 22 July BBC One Scotland HD, 8.00 – 9.00pm

This week in Shieldinch…as suspicion surrounds, Murray feels like a social outcast, forcing him to consider his future; Angus susses Kirsty’s lies and urges her to do the right thing; and Bob makes a dodgy deal with Angus while Molly welcomes the Queen’s Baton Relay to Shieldinch. Despite gossip and cruel speculation, Murray tries to put on a brave face, optimistic he’ll be cleared of any wrongdoing. He turns to his friends for much-needed support but is disappointed when Raymond keeps his distance. Alan is furious to discover no further action will be taken against Murray. Guilt-ridden, Kirsty considers telling her father the truth but is persuaded not to by Finn who revels in the drama they’ve caused. Suspicious of how well Kirsty’s taken the news, Angus challenges his sister about the incident. Kirsty confesses but is reluctant to take Angus’ advice and admit she lied, fearing her father’s reaction. With insider information from journalist Iain Miller, Alan uncovers potentially damaging skeletons in Murray’s closet. Eileen and Raymond’s reaction to this latest slur makes Murray realise that, in spite of being innocent, his reputation has been tarnished forever. Feeling rejected by his close friends, Murray considers whether he has a place in Shieldinch anymore. Elsewhere, a cash-strapped Bob agrees to some dodgy car deals with Angus while Molly limbers up for a starring role when the Queen’s Baton Relay comes to Shieldinch.

Murray is played by Brian Crozier, Angus by Scott Fletcher, Kirsty by Bobby Rainsbury, Bob by Stephen Purdon, Molly by Una McLean, Raymond by Paul Samson, Alan by Stephen McCole, Finn by Sonny Green and Iain Miller by Allan Lindsay.

Julie Whiteside

Note: Next week’s River City (Week 28) is now due to transmit Monday, July 14 at 9pm on BBC One Scotland.

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The Games People Play Tuesday, 22 July BBC Two Scotland, 9.00-10.00 pm

There's never been a summer like it in Scotland. Just seven weeks after Glasgow hosts the Commonwealth Games, millions of Scots will be going to the polls to decide our country's future. In The Games People Play, ex-rugby international turned broadcaster John Beattie investigates what happens when the worlds of sport and politics collide. John asks if gold medals at this year's Commonwealth Games will influence whether Scots vote Yes or No on September 18th. Yes campaigner and boxing legend Alex Arthur, tells John his career suffered because he wouldn't keep his Scottish identity under wraps. And pro-UK supporter and rugby hero David Sole insists the historic 1990 Grand Slam victory over England was just a game of rugby and had nothing to do with the Poll Tax or Mrs Thatcher.

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