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Scotland Management review 2010/11

a 01 Introduction 14 Looking ahead 19 Contacts 02 Two minute summary 18 Key priorities for next year 20 management 04 Service performance

“ The year saw a further increase in the BBC’s network spend in Scotland to over 7% of the total, exceeding the target set for us by the BBC Trust and the Director-General.” Ken MacQuarrie, Director, BBC Scotland

Cover image and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra thrill the audience at the BBC Proms, broadcast live from the Caird Hall in Dundee. Introduction

Delivering thrilling output and enthralling our audiences – two principles which have underpinned another hugely creative year for BBC Scotland, with output ranging from the landmark factual documentary Making Scotland’s Landscape with Ian Stewart to the critically acclaimed drama Single Father with .

In 1996 BBC Scotland’s Annual Review drew attention to a record-breaking year for investment and it looked forward to the potential that a new broadcast centre at in could bring. It also noted a continuing drive for efficiencies across the BBC. Fifteen years on, digital broadcasting is a reality. Pacific Quay is established and starting to fulfil that potential. Studio utilisation and network investment are once again at record highs. And the financial backdrop against which we operate remains no less challenging. In 2010/11 the full impact of the BBC’s Network Supply Review began to be felt. Network productions from Scotland continued to grow, with hours of output increasing by over 150% in only two years. A remarkable achievement in itself. The corresponding increase in the BBC’s network television spend in Scotland, from 6.1% last year to 7.4% of the total BBC spend on network productions, represents a significant step towards the 2016 target of 8.6% set for us by the BBC Trust and the Director-General. New investment has opened up exciting opportunities, for our in-house production teams and for the wider creative community. Now, the task ahead is for us to understand just how a tough but fair Licence Fee settlement will impact on our services. One thing am sure of, however, is that the high quality of programmes and content that is rightly demanded of us by our audiences will remain a trademark of BBC Scotland as we move confidently towards a fully digital future.

Ken MacQuarrie Director, BBC Scotland 1 Two minute summary

2.4 million150% The average weekly UK Unique The percentage increase in Users accessing BBC Scotland network television hours achieved online content in 2010/11. by BBC Scotland across the last two years (from 243 hours in 2008/09 to 611 hours in 2010/11). 1.1 million 717 The number of requests for The total number of poems and BBC ALBA content on the songs now recorded and held BBC iPlayer in 2010. in BBC Scotland’s Robert Burns Audio Archive. The three year project was completed in January 2011, with contributions from a host of well-known public figures, including HRH Prince Charles.

2 BBC Scotland’s local television hours Weekly reach in Scotland, % by service Genre BBC One Arts 18.21 08/09 77.7 Comedy 9.17 09/10 77.1 Current Affairs 174.86 10/11 79.7 Drama 56.55 Entertainment 2.01 BBC Two Factual 47.00 08/09 56.2 Factual Entertainment 12.19 09/10 55.4 Music Performance 16.50 10/11 55.5 & Weather 320.08 Religion/Beliefs 4.01 BBC ALBA Education 2.89 08/09 (Sept 08–March 09) 5.5% (220,000) Sport 143.33 09/10 4.3% (180,000) Total 806.80 10/11 4.3% (180,000) Repeats 320.66 BBC Radio Scotland Total hours 1,127.46 08/09 21.6 BBC Scotland’s network television hours 09/10 21.2 Total hours 611 10/11 22.2 BBC Scotland’s radio hours BBC Radio nan Gàidheal BBC Radio Scotland 8,445 Repeats 2,064 08/09 69.0 Total hours 10,509 09/10 68.6 BBC Radio nan Gàidheal 3,673 10/11 72.4 Repeats 1,158 TV highlights Total hours 4,831 Live coverage of the Papal visit in September, from the official welcome by HM The Queen in to the BBC ALBA television hours Mass at Bellahouston Park in Glasgow, was our largest News and Current Affairs 185 ever one-day outside broadcast. Other BBC funded programmes 21 Radio highlights Total BBC funded programmes 206 BBC Radio Scotland attracted almost a million listeners every week. The Sportsound programme won a Sony gold Partner (MG ALBA) funded programmes 406 award and new series included Scotland at Prayer, The Bob Joint Funded programmes 4 Servant Emails and Scotland on Song. Total hours 616 Online highlights Repeats 1,970 In partnership with the Scottish Book Trust, leading Total hours 2,586 children’s authors Michael Rosen, , Michael Morpurgo and others featured in BBC Scotland’s Authors Live events, webcast from Pacific Quay to audiences of up to 100,000 school children across the UK.

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It was another year of creative challenge for BBC Scotland, with high impact dramas, innovative comedy and ground-breaking documentaries among the many highlights.

Television The General Election dominated news In News, the 6.30pm edition of Reporting coverage in April and May 2010. Glenn Scotland attracted some of its highest Campbell presented a Scottish Leaders’ audiences in the past decade. The severe Debate from the Festival Theatre, in weather in December 2010 was a major Edinburgh. Our televised election night story across the output and coverage coverage reached 1.4 million people. of the heavy snowfall and the Scottish The impact of the Government’s public Government’s response saw audiences spending review was a focus for special nearly double. news coverage and debate in the autumn. The average nightly audience for the The BBC Scotland investigations programme for December 2010 was delivered several high impact 710,000, the highest recorded since the documentaries for Scottish and network new BARB audience methodology began audiences. The Rise and Lies of Tommy in 2002. Sheridan presented by Mark Daly was a 60 The reach of all BBC Scotland TV bulletins minute TV special broadcast on the day of increased from 51% in 2009/10 to 54% in the former MSP’s conviction for perjury. 2010 /11.

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Five Panoramas, made in Scotland, were Park, Glasgow, which was beamed across transmitted over the year. They included the world. This represented the largest one Sam Poling’s documentary Smoking and day outside broadcast ever undertaken by the Bandits, which involved an undercover BBC Scotland. investigation into criminal gangs running Last year’s landmark factual series illegal trade in counterfeit cigarettes. It was – A History of Scotland – was followed this watched by a network audience of more year by Making Scotland’s Landscape, a five than 3.1 million people. part series for BBC One Scotland and One of the events of the year, the BBC HD, in which Ian Stewart peeled visit to Scotland of Pope Benedict XVI back time to offer a fresh perspective on in September, was covered live and man’s influence on the land. Its companion extensively across television, radio and piece on BBC Two Scotland, the three part online, from his arrival in Edinburgh and the Men of Rock, told the story of the Scottish official State Greeting by HM The Queen pioneers of geology who helped shape our to live coverage of the mass in Bellahouston understanding of the modern world.

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1. BBC Scotland’s 2010 UK General Election coverage was fronted by Jackie Bird (pictured), with Brian Taylor, Glenn Campbell and Derek Bateman. 2. Professor Ian Stewart charted the impact of man on the land in Making Scotland’s Landscape and Men of Rock. 3. BBC Investigates reporter, Mark Daly. 5 Service performance continued

The six part Grand Tours of Scotland followed who, over 200 years, built lighthouses on in the footsteps of the first tourists to some of Britain’s most storm-lashed and Scotland and Films of Scotland, presented inaccessible outcrops. One viewer wrote to by over six programmes, say it was “a documentary that was gripping offered a fascinating insight into nearly 50 from start to finish. My eyes never left the years of Scotland’s history held on film in screen. It alone was worth every penny of the Scottish Screen Archive. the licence fee.” A talking point across much of the year and Landward was , which focused on the lives remained perennial favourites with of six families in Onthank in north-west audiences, both now among BBC Kilmarnock. Although only two episodes Scotland’s longest-running programmes. were initially shown (as a result of legal The Clydebank Blitz marked the 70th reasons), the programme became one of anniversary of the bombing which almost the most talked about social documentaries completely destroyed the town. Over in recent years. 650,000 viewers (31% share) tuned in to The Guga Hunters of Ness provided a unique hear the reminiscences of those who lived insight into a way of life, until now hidden through that fateful time. from public view, following the men of Ness The Edinburgh International Festival who, each year, brave high seas and storms was covered by and to travel to the remote uninhabited island , both of which relocated of Sula Sgeir to hunt young gannets for to Edinburgh for the duration. Coverage their . of the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo, this The Lighthouse Stevensons, narrated by Denis year augmented by a special diamond Lawson, told the remarkable tale of five anniversary Tattoo at 60, added to the generations of the Stevenson family, extensive output offered across the BBC’s radio and television networks.

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1. A slice of living history, seen from the inside, as BBC Two Scotland captured the annual expedition of The Guga Hunters of Ness. 2. Spring brought the return of the Beechgrove Garden, in a new Monday night slot on BBC One Scotland. 6 Artworks brought together top musicians New network drama was very much a Mark Knopfler and Phil Cunningham to highlight across 2010/2011. Single Father, with discuss their work and the latter set out David Tennant, dealt with bereavement and to understand the evolution of his chosen love after heartbreak. on BBC instrument in the four-part The World HD, it reached 9.4 million people in the UK Accordian to Phil. and drew 1.3 million requests to view on Pairings were also the theme for three BBC iPlayer. further Artworks programmes as Peter Lip Service followed the lives of twenty- Capaldi and John Byrne, Bill Paterson something lesbians in Glasgow and and Bill Forsyth and Albert Watson garnered rich critical praise, as did the and Harry Benson met to discuss their three-part drama series centred around mutual influences. Rome detective, Aurelio Zen. Garrow’s Law Influential artists Peter Howson and John returned for a second series; Hattie, the Bellany were the subjects of separate dramatised life of actress Hattie Jacques, documentaries, The Glasgow Boys saw drew BBC Four’s highest ever audience, Muriel Gray celebrate the work of those with two million viewers; James Nesbitt who put Glasgow on the international art and Minnie Driver headlined the cast of map and , Aly Bain and award- The Deep, set far beneath the polar icecap winning novelist and poet Andrew Greig and , now approaching its set out in the footsteps of Norman McCaig seventh series, was voted Most Popular in Fishing for Poetry, a co-production with Drama at the National Television Awards in BBC Four. January. remains a firm favourite with viewers, with new characters and new storylines introduced in 2010.

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3. Andy Grieg, Billy Connolly and Aly Bain pay tribute to one of Scotland’s greatest ever poets, Norman McCaig, in Fishing for Poetry. 4 Hollywood’s Minnie Driver and James Nesbitt headed a strong cast in the five part drama The Deep. 7 Service performance continued

Children’s output for network remains to two of Scotland’s greatest in Gerard Kelly: a staple and, across the year, Nina and the A Celebration and Kenneth McKellar: Scotland’s Neurons, Big City Park, Copycats, All Over Greatest Tenor. The Place, Hedz and Mission 2110 were just In comedy, network favourites The Old Guys some of the highlights from BBC Scotland. and Life of Riley returned and Mrs Brown’s Boys The year saw network entertainment series established themselves as popular favourites. Tonight’s the Night, with John Barrowman, Desperate Fishwives made its transition from and National Lottery game show Secret BBC Radio Scotland to television and Fortune re-commissioned. Both are filmed Burnistoun, Gary: Tank Commander and at Pacific Quay. Limmy’s Show were all recommissioned. T in the Park featured across BBC Two Of Brian Limond, wrote in Scotland and BBC Three, as well as on : “He reminds me of Vic BBC red button, BBC iPlayer and online. Reeves and and I think The World Pipe Band Championships were he’ll be the next big thing in comedy.” streamed worldwide; came Live televised European Championship live from the Caird Hall in Dundee, with football saw Scotland take on Spain and the Nicola Benedetti, Lesley Garrett and the Czech Republic and the excitement built magnificent Dundee Proms Chorus across the group stages and finals of the CIS and Alexandra Burke and McFly joined and Scottish FA Cups. Scotland’s rugby team Children in Need Rocks Scotland. The BBC defeated Argentina across two televised SSO celebrated its 75th birthday with a tests, the live finals of ’s MacAuley, special concert from its home at Glasgow MacTavish and Camanachd Cups drew City Halls. appreciative audiences, live coverage of and the New Year once again golf’s Open Championship came from offered an occasion to gather with family St Andrew’s and and and friends, to see in 2011. It was also a time covered a wide range of to look back, as BBC Scotland paid tribute sporting pursuits.

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1. Gary McLintock wrote and starred in Gary: Tank Commander, which will return for a second series in 2011. 2. The ambitious sci-fi drama game, M i s s i o n 2110 , catapulted CBBC viewers into a post-apocalyptic future. 8 In The Great Climb two of the climbing Factual programmes included the world’s most respected climbers – Dave Murtairean investigations into infamous Macleod and Tim Emmett – took on the Scottish murders and a portrait of the daunting task of scaling Sron Uladail in popular Lewis-born broadcaster Donny Harris. The successful five hour ascent was B. MacLeod. The children’s drama Calum covered live on BBC Two Scotland and in Dongle was a highlight of the Christmas part simulcast on BBC HD. schedule and the addition of Magners BBC Scotland Learning continued to League rugby offered even greater innovate with Authors Live, delivered in choice of sport on the channel. partnership with the Scottish Book Trust BBC Radio Scotland and the GLOW Learning environment for It was another golden year for BBC Radio schools. Charlie Higson, Michael Morpurgo, Scotland with the hugely popular Sportsound Julia Donaldson (with Gruffalo!) and others programme named the UK’s Best Sports broadcast live from Pacific Quay to an Programme in the Sony invited audience and to schools – between Awards. In a busy 12 months for Scottish 50,000 and 100,000 children viewed sport our reporters covered controversy each event. on and off the field, including a strike by SPL Recognition of the impact of BBC ALBA referees. Beyond football, we followed the was reflected in the decision of the BBC action in rugby, shinty, golf, tennis and spoke Trust to approve its transmission across to the Scottish athletes preparing for next Scotland on Freeview and cable, from June year’s . 2011. The channel won its first award, for BBC Radio Scotland delivered extensive the revealing and challenging documentary, coverage of the General Election and Tormod: A Life, as it collected the premier the debate over public spending in Good Jury Prize at the . Morning Scotland and across the daytime news programmes. Regional election debates were held in six locations around

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3. One of the most daunting rock climbs in Scotland was captured, live, in The Great Climb. 4. Neen Mackay’s angling odyssey continued in Turas A’Bhradain. 9 Service performance continued

Scotland. Our news teams kept listeners In the evening our music programming informed throughout another bad winter went from strength to strength. Ricky and followed the political fallout from the Ross won a Sony Award for his weekly closure of the M8. alt-country and Americana programme, The daytime schedule was revamped with Another Country, and Barbara Dickson’s additional airtime for Call Kaye while John second series of Scotland on Song Beattie offered a new approach to news secured some notable guests, including at lunchtime: the afternoon schedule Billy Connolly. included landmark series such as Scotland Across the year, the station’s commitment at Prayer and The Scots: A Genetic Journey. to Scottish culture was evident in a range of There were also several new comedy output. The three-year project to record series such as The Bob Servant Emails every one of Burns’ poems and songs was (starring Hollywood actor Brian Cox) completed and that archive is now a living and a showcase of top stand-up comedy legacy online. Over two million users have from The Stand club in Edinburgh. accessed this unique and permanent cultural resource. Arts and music festivals were covered in special programming or within

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1. John Beattie joined the BBC Radio Scotland morning line up, as the station’s listener numbers soared to over one million each week, its best performance in four years. 2. Hollywood legend Brian Cox starred in BBC Radio Scotland’s The Bob Servant Emails. 10 our lunchtime Cafes and our teams were For BBC Radio 1 in Scotland we introduced out in force at the Edinburgh International new presenter Ally MacCrae and for BBC Festival and Fringe and at events such as Radio 2 we offered coverage of the Celtic , RockNess and T in the Park. Connections festival presented by Ricky Ross. On the technical side, three new For BBC Radio 3 we continue to exploit transmitters brought an improvement in our specialisms in jazz and orchestral music. FM reception quality along the busy A9 Our programme teams were involved corridor between Perth and . in many BBC landmark projects, including Better on-air promotion also saw a 30% A History of the World in 100 Objects increase in unique users for the BBC Radio and production of the le Carre Smiley Scotland website. adaptations for BBC Radio 4. Network Radio BBC Radio nan Gàidheal Our multi-genre production skills in The year began with recognition from Scotland allowed us to offer programming industry peers as BBC Radio nan Gàidheal to the BBC’s digital and analogue radio was named Celtic Radio Station of the stations. BBC Radio 4 (and the new BBC Year and commended by the Celtic Media Radio 4 Extra) continues to seek content Festival judges for its range of voices and for from our programme makers and last year its understanding of, and engagement with, that included many hours of drama and its audience. The new topical discussion documentaries, the information technology programme Feasgar filled the week-day series Click On and the genealogy series lunchtime gap and an extended catch- Tracing Your Roots. For BBC Radio 4 Extra up schedule on Sundays enhanced the we now provide the daily Four O’Clock Show. weekend offer. Recorded hours of listening amongst the audience have increased from an average 6.8 to 7.8 per week.

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3. Sony award-winning Ricky Ross featured the best of alternative country and Americana on Another Country. 4. BBC Scotland’s 2011 Festival coverage included the annual international Celtic Connections, with reviews, photographs, recorded highlights and hours of web-only material available on the BBC music website. 11 Service performance continued

Changes to the morning BBC Radio Scotland schedule saw Gary Robertson, , Fred MacAulay and John Beattie bring new listeners to the weekday morning output.

A major landmark cross-media project Online Bliadhna nan Òran/Year of Gaelic Song Audiences to BBC Scotland’s online news revitalised the riches of the BBC’s Gaelic service continued to grow. The best ever song archive. The Òran an Là / Song of the weekly figures of 2.8 million weekly unique Day feature placed the initiative at the users were recorded in the first week of of the schedule as well as feeding into a December 2010, as the severe weather website to form part of the project legacy. impacted across Scotland (and those The achievement was recognised with a figures were exceeded in May 2011 when special award to the station at the annual user numbers reached 3.3 million, a rise Scottish Traditional Music Awards where of 81% year-on-year). The BBC Scotland the project was described as an ‘outstanding news team also expanded the use of social initiative’ which has left a ‘marvellous legacy’. media for journalism – several reporters May’s General Election proved another and correspondents now use Twitter and milestone as BBC Radio nan Gàidheal’s Facebook as channels for delivering news years of experience in election coverage to audiences. provided the foundation for the first ever Gaelic bi-media Election Results programming.

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1. Kirsteen MacDonald presents the weather reports on the weekday An Là and the weekly news review programme, Seachd (Seven Days) on Sunday nights. 2. ’s Kristan Harvey won this year’s Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year (here with station head Jeff Zycinski and Creative Scotland CEO Andrew Dixon). 12 3 and 4. The innovative ‘re-photography’ initiative invited members of the public to ‘re-take’ historic images of Scotland: the Valleyfield Mill in Penicuik, then and now.

The year has been dominated by a Autumn 2010 brought BBC Scotland’s wide-ranging review, driving the service flagshipLandscapes season, and with towards a clear, editorially focused it the user-generated ‘rephotography’ strategy. 2010/11 saw an average 5% rise campaign. We uploaded Scottish photos in traffic across the portfolio – 2.4 million from the 19th and early 20th centuries, weekly unique users across the year. inviting audiences to upload their own Learning continues to perform well, ‘rephotograph’ of the same landscape. especially during exam periods. 75,000 The campaign used the unique combination users visited each week during May 2010, of web and the audience to tell the story rising again during the winter prelims. of man’s impact on Scotland’s landscape Bitesize Scotland will extend from Standard over time. and Higher grades in 2011 with the launch of content for levels 1-3.

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13 Looking ahead

In 2011/12, BBC Scotland’s commitment to its audiences will be to deliver the highest quality programming and content across a range of genres and broadcast platforms.

The best journalism As with the 2010 UK General Election, We will continue to provide the best, most our Scottish election coverage will be informed journalism that resonates with our carried by BBC ALBA and by BBC Radio audiences. On television we will build on the nan Gàidheal, offering Gaelic speakers a success of , the audience particular perspective on political events for which is currently at its highest levels and issues. From June, BBC ALBA will be in a decade. available on Freeview and cable across Across all of our broadcast platforms Scotland, for the first time offering all we will offer comprehensive coverage viewers a dedicated Gaelic TV weeknight of the Scottish Parliamentary elections news service via the An Là programme. in May 2011, including regional hustings Our Investigations team offers the only programmes and a live Leaders’ Debate broadcast investigative programming in from Perth, and we will continue to focus Scotland and we will continue to develop on issues as the new and extend the diverse range of issues that takes office and begins to implement policy. it tackles.

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1. , with Gary Robertson, brings BBC Radio Scotland listeners Scotland’s most informed and informative journalism. 2. BBC Scotland’s Election 2011 team: (L to R) Glenn Campbell, Jackie Bird, Brian Taylor, Sally Magnusson. 14 Local communities and local government Sixty years of BBC will will remain an important focus for our radio be celebrated with a six-part documentary, journalism, which will be strengthened by charting the evolution of Scotland’s most the introduction of a live early morning enduring popular entertainment medium. news briefing programme. Our online In The Last Explorers, writer and offering will continue to deliver breaking archaeologist Neil Oliver will, over four news stories to our audiences. programmes, tell the tale of late 18th Inspiring knowledge, music and culture century exploration and how a handful of BBC Scotland has, for the first time for Scots helped to shape the modern world. any broadcaster, been afforded unique Much anticipated, the documentary series behind-the-scenes access to Edinburgh The Scheme, which for legal reasons only Castle, Scotland’s premier tourist attraction, received a part-transmission in 2010, will for The Castle, a ground-breaking six-part be broadcast in full, with an additional fifth documentary series. programme added to provide update since Europe’s largest state secondary school, its last transmission. Holyrood Secondary in Glasgow, will Grand Tours of Scotland, recreating Scottish be the subject of a major observational tours from Victorian guidebooks, will return documentary series. Shot over the period for a second series, as will Transatlantic of one year, the everyday lives of its pupils, Sessions, a co-production with BBC Four. teachers and parents will be captured in BBC Radio Scotland will feature a major three one-hour programmes. series exploring the history and future of Scotland’s universities.

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3. Paul Murton will continue to trace the changes in 200 years of Scottish tourism as Grand Tours of Scotland returns for a second series. 4. Scotland’s social documentary, The Scheme, will be transmitted in full in 2011, and on network with an additional programme. 15 Looking ahead continued

Ambitious UK drama and comedy Outstanding children’s content The popular hit comedy Mrs Brown’s Boys Skateboarding, frisbee-catching, skipping will return for a second network series, and dancing dogs – just some of the stars of as will Govan’s favourite son, when Rab C. Who let The Dogs Out? the new dog-training Nesbitt dons his string vest for a second series for CBBC, featuring You Tube star series since his return to the schedules. Zac George. Popular Scottish comedy series Burnistoun, Same Smile, a collaborative project, Limmy’s Show and Gary: Tank Commander involving programme teams from Scotland, have all been re-commissioned for second Northern Ireland, and , will series, due to be screened this year. return for a second series. Aimed at 2-4 Drama will once again feature prominently year olds, presenter Nisha Anil cycles across in the schedules. Field of Blood, a two-part the UK visiting children to discover what adaptation of the novel by Scottish author makes them ’the same, but different’. Denise Mina, shot in Glasgow and starring Animation provides the vehicle for the , David Morrisey and Ford hugely innovative Ask Lara, an animated Keirnan, will be broadcast in early summer. sitcom for 9-13 year olds which will follow Case Histories, a six part detective series the journey of Lara, her two best friends, based on Kate Atkinson’s books and filmed Monica and Akira and her friends Tony, and set in Edinburgh, will also screen this Deon and Gabriel down the rocky road year, as will Young James, the three part of pre-and pubescent life. drama series which looks back over the Nina and the Neurons will return with a early years of vet and author James Herriot. brand new series, Brilliant Bodies, unlocking Lip Service will return for a second series, the secrets of human biology for the young, once again throwing the spotlight on the and there will also be new series of Copycats lives and love affairs of twenty-something and All over the Place for CBBC. lesbians living in contemporary Glasgow.

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1. Brian Limond, the talent behind the hugely innovative Limmy’s Show, will return for a second series of the anarchic comedy sketch show. 2. Nisha Anil and her three cuddly panda friends will take another look at children’s lives in the UK as Same Smile returns on CBeebies. 16 In development is the hugely inventive, music and in 2011 we will return to the informative and fun-filled How to Escape Caird Hall in Dundee in the company from the Belly of a Whale, a factual series for of the BBC SSO. anyone who might find themselves being In sport, we will continue to cover a wide chased by a dinosaur, tailed by a yeti or range of popular and minority sports. We tangled by a man-eating plant and want will have live coverage of Scotland’s final to use science to help them escape. European Championship crunch game Events that bring communities and the against world champions Spain in October. nation together Live League and coverage will There will once again be extensive coverage feature throughout the season. In rugby, of the Edinburgh International Festival, with we will once again be in Melrose to cover three Culture Shows and three Review Shows the world’s oldest sevens tournament coming from the , in addition to and live games from the Magners League output on network BBC Radio, BBC Radio will feature on BBC ALBA. We will also Scotland and performances by the BBC contribute to the pan-UK events planned Scottish Symphony Orchestra (SSO). as part of the cultural Olympiad. The ever-popular World Pipe Band On BBC Radio Scotland, special seasons Championships will once again feature, and themed weeks will cover topics such with live online streaming allowing access as the Pakistani community in Scotland and for fans and followers across the world. notions of fatherhood and masculinity in Scottish society. T in the Park has steadily grown to become one of the UK’s most important music festivals and BBC Scotland will again be at Balado in Fife to capture three days of the latest music, news and gossip. The Proms is a perennial favourite with fans of classical

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3. BBC Scotland will once again capture the best of Scotland’s festivals, as we did in 2010 (pictured: Black Eyed Peas at last year’s T in the Park). 4. Lesley Garrett wows the BBC Proms audience at the Caird Hall in Dundee, and BBC Scotland will return there in 2011. 17 Key priorities for next year

Network Radio We will continue to build on our success We will take full account of the conclusions to date, particularly in arts, specialist factual of BBC Trust reviews of BBC Radio and drama programming, as we seek to Scotland and BBC Radio nan Gàidheal as help create a sustainable production base we shape our radio offering to reach out in Scotland that will benefit the whole to more listeners and provide a rich variety creative community. of music and talk.

Access Online As the digital switchover process BBC Scotland New Media’s priority in is completed in Scotland, and new 2011/12 is to integrate fully with the wider transmitters further extend DAB BBC Online. The highlight will be the reception of network BBC Radio, BBC launch of the new BBC homepage in the ALBA will be made available to viewers winter, built on location-aware technology, across the country on Freeview and cable. presenting a greater amount of Scottish content to audiences.

18 Contacts

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19 Scotland management

Ken MacQuarrie, Director, Ewan Angus, Commissioning Editor, Wendy Aslett, Head of HR and BBC Scotland Television and Head of Sport Development

John Boothman, Head of News and Donald-Iain Brown, Head of Talent Mairead Ferguson, Head of Marketing, Current Affairs Division and Operations Communications and Audiences

Donalda Mackinnon, Head of Bruce Malcom, Chief Operating Ian Small, Head of Public Policy and Programmes and Services Officer Corporate Affairs

Catherine Smith, Head of Strategy Jeff Zycinski, Head of Radio

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