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Communities around Scotland tell the stories that matter to them. With Mark Stephen.

30/03/2025

Deans South

When their houses were condemned, homeowners in Deans South, Livingston, fought for a fair deal and ended up living in a ghost town. Mark Stephen speaks with Kerry Macintosh, Phil Cavan and Isabel Baxter, who after twenty years finally found a solution.

28 min
23/03/2025

The Glasgow Taxi Outing to Troon

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28 min
16/03/2025

Fife Flyers

Mark Stephen visits the Fife Flyers in Kirkcaldy to meet the players, management and fans of the oldest ice hockey team. With over 60 Scottish and British cups and titles to their name, the Flyers have a storied history of success that’s all the more impressive considering they’re based in a small market town. Despite facing financial challenges compared to their rivals in larger cities like Cardiff, Belfast and Sheffield, the Flyers have more than made up for it with unwavering team spirit and a relentless drive to win. This was exemplified 40 years ago, when the Flyers were crowned British champions at Wembley Arena in London. The team plays at the historic Fife Ice Arena, which opened in 1938. From the outside, the arena resembles an old cinema, and its interior reflects its vintage charm. While it may not boast the modern, sleek design of newer venues, the Fife Ice Arena more than compensates with its rich character and decades of history.

28 min
09/03/2025

The Sollas Beach Fly-In

Mark Stephen takes to the skies as he heads to North Uist in a light aircraft to meet the organisers of the Sollas Beach Fly-In, a special annual event where pilots get to challenge themselves by landing on a public beach. First established in the early 2000s by John Angus Macleod, the fly-in has grown from a few pilots landing on Sollas beach to an event that now attracts light-aircraft enthusiasts from all over the UK as well as further afield in Europe.

28 min
02/03/2025

Port Edgar Dragons

Mark Stephen takes a paddle on the Union Canal with Scotland’s only cancer survivors' dragon boat group, the Port Edgar Dragons. He also learns about the origins of the Pink Dragon movement in Canada, a dragon boat team formed by cancer survivors. The initiative was founded by Dr Don McKenzie, a professor of sports medicine and exercise physiologist, who sought to challenge the prevailing medical belief at the time that women treated for breast cancer should avoid rigorous upper-body exercise due to the risk of lymphedema - a chronic and debilitating side effect of treatment.

28 min
23/02/2025

Barbed Wireless

Barlinnie's prison radio station broadcasts into every cell, offering music request shows and vital information to support rehabilitation. Mark meets Barry Richardson, the prison officer who set up the station and learned how to operate it alongside the prisoners. Inmates including DJ Geo tell Mark how they've learned valuable life skills like teamwork and responsibility. Victoria Byrne from Citizens Advice uses the radio station to help prepare prisoners for their release, and for former inmate Jordan Robertson, working at Barbed Wireless led to a career in the media.

28 min
14/07/2024

The Miners' Strike

Forty years on, Mark Stephen hears why miners Gordon Cossar, Robert Kelly and Frank Bryce fought so hard to defend their communities in the most bitter strike in living memory.

28 min
07/07/2024

Knockhill

As Knockhill racing circuit in Fife turns 50, Mark Stephen hears how farmer Tom Kinnaird turned his sheep farm into the home of Scottish motorsport. Over the last five decades, Knockhill has been the breeding ground for champions such as Formula 1 driver David Coulthard and superbike rider Niall MacKenzie, but triple British Touring Car champion Gordon ‘Flash’ Shedden gives Mark the full Knockhill experience as they hurtle around the track at over 100mph.

28 min

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Welcome to Our Scotland

Lifting the veil on hidden aspects of contemporary Scottish life. Vibrant and diverse, it will provide a peek through the window into the country’s lesser-known parallel worlds, guided each week by an expert insider and narrated by Nalini Chetty.

07/03/2021

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