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Blood and lead

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Original TX Date: 01 01 1970

The worst journey in the world

Broadcaster:
Original TX Date: 01 01 1970

Coastal Rowing

Broadcaster:
Original TX Date: 01 01 1970

Bruna's story

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Original TX Date: 01 01 1970

Carers

Taking on the responsibility of being the prime carer. Carers like Alec Macdonald from Staffin who cared for his mother for 13 years, talk openly about the challenges, frustrations and often heart break of looking after a spouse, parent or sibling in need of full time care at home.

Broadcaster: BBC ALBA
Original TX Date: 20 04 2009

Nightworkers

Night workers - keeping our city streets clean, safe and fun. Street Cleaners, CTV operators, Nightclub Hosts and Taxi drivers. just some of the unsung heros of the night scene in Scotlands cities

Broadcaster: BBC ALBA
Original TX Date: 27 04 2009

Adoption Stories

Real people, real stories. Gaelic documentary series Trusadh looks at the emotive subject of adoption through the stories of people who have adopted children, or were adopted themselves.

Broadcaster: BBC ALBA
Original TX Date: 04 05 2009

Mink

In 2001 an eradication project was launched in the Western Isles to eradicate the mink population that is desecrating the ground-nesting bird colonies. Trusadh follows the men behind the project and the people that have seen the destruction first hand.

Broadcaster: BBC ALBA
Original TX Date: 11 05 2009

Clan MacQuarrie

The night of 30th January 1953 saw many lives lost at sea in the Great Storm. The MV Clan MacQuarrie returning from India hit on the rocks in a crashing sea off the west coast of Lewis, all the crew were saved in a heroic rescue by local villagers. Fifty years later the link is still strong between the community and the ships crew, a bond that is celebrated with the opening of a new Community Centre.

Broadcaster: BBC CLBA
Original TX Date: 18 05 2009

Count Robin

The life and times of Robin de la Lanne Mirrlees. Journalist Iain Maciver spends time with the Count who as a young man with a vast fortune was part of the European royal set and who famously inspired one of Iain Flemmings characters in the Bond novel On His Majesty's Secret Service. Today the Count lives virtually penniless on a small island in the Hebrides which he purchased on a whim in the Sixties.

Broadcaster: BBC ALBA
Original TX Date: 21 09 2009

Mary's Meals

Catriona Mackinnon looks at the work being done by an Argyll based charity in west Africa. Started by two brothers working out of their home in Dalmally, near Oban, Mary?s Meals has now grown to be one of the main conduits for aid, first in Malawi and now in Liberia.

Broadcaster: BBC ALBA
Original TX Date: 28 09 2009

Save the Last Dance

With the American-style school Prom now firmly part of the Scottish school scence, Trusadh spends time with some Scottish teenagers preparing for their big night. Expensive frocks, hair-dos and even limos, often a parent?s nightmare but from Ullapool to Glasgow the School Prom is the highlight of the year for many young people.

Broadcaster: BBC ALBA
Original TX Date: 05 10 2009

Modern Clans

What role do Clans play today? as modern day Chiefs and their Clans gather in Edinburgh, Trusadh explores the romaticism & myth alongside the modern day appeal to many overseas of the Scottish Clans.

Broadcaster: BBC ALBA
Original TX Date: 19 10 2009

Stornoway Black Pudding

The campaign to protect the Stornoway Black Pudding from imitation. Chefs, butchers, and food enthusiasts speak out for the Marag Dhubh to be given special protection status by the EU.

Broadcaster: BBC ALBA
Original TX Date: 26 10 2009

Wild Swimming

The attraction of swimming in the wild ? more and more people are shunning the bright lights, tiled floor and chemicals of the local swimming pool for the clear, refreshing and often freezing natural waters to swim in the lochs, rivers, and seas of Scotland. Great for health and well-being, or just plain crazy?

Broadcaster: BBC ALBA
Original TX Date: 09 11 2009

Community radio

A look at the world of community radio.

Broadcaster: BBC ALBA
Original TX Date: 07 03 2011

Running for life

Kenyan success in distance running.

Broadcaster: BBC ALBA
Original TX Date: 09 03 2011

The Miracle

Can Magneâs brain damage be reversed?

Broadcaster: BBC ALBA
Original TX Date: 16 03 2011

Shifting Sabbath

In Lewis and Harris, in the Hebrides, the tradition of Sunday observance is shifting.

Broadcaster: BBC ALBA
Original TX Date: 28 03 2011

Ayen's Cooking School

Sudanese men learn to cook.

Broadcaster: BBC ALBA
Original TX Date: 30 03 2011

Outlaw Diplomats

Exploiting diplomatic immunity.

Broadcaster: BBC ALBA
Original TX Date: 06 04 2011

Back to Rurutu

Maeva and Eteroa return to the land of their birth.

Broadcaster: BBC ALBA
Original TX Date: 13 04 2011

Living in a minefield

Minefields in Cambodia.

Broadcaster: BBC ALBA
Original TX Date: 20 04 2011

Becoming a man in Africa

Rites of passage in Africa

Broadcaster: BBCALBA
Original TX Date: 04 05 2011

Football undercover

Iranian Womanâs Football

Broadcaster: BBCALBA
Original TX Date: 11 05 2011

Becoming a man in Siberia

Rite of passage in Siberia

Broadcaster: BBCALBA
Original TX Date: 18 05 2011

Movies across India

Indiaâs obsession with the movies

Broadcaster: BBCALBA
Original TX Date: 25 05 2011

Miss India

The ultimate Indian beauty pageant

Broadcaster: BBC ALBA
Original TX Date: 01 06 2011

The German Gaels

A look at the Germans who are entranced with Scottish culture

Broadcaster: BBC ALBA
Original TX Date: 06 06 2011

Papers in the new World

A look at what the future holds for newspapers

Broadcaster: BBC ALBA
Original TX Date: 13 06 2011

Eye of the crocodile

The hunt for a killer crocodile

Broadcaster: BBC ALBA
Original TX Date: 15 06 2011

Hebridean Motorheads

A gentle look at the Hebridean fascination with all things wheeled!

Broadcaster: BBC ALBA
Original TX Date: 20 06 2011

Liquid Stone

The building of the Sagrada Familia Church in Barcelona

Broadcaster: BBC ALBA
Original TX Date: 22 06 2011

Village shops

A look at the lives of those who run the village shop

Broadcaster: BBC ALBA
Original TX Date: 27 06 2011

Hosts in Tokyo

Male Hosts in Tokyo

Broadcaster: BBC ALBA
Original TX Date: 29 06 2011

The moon

Our relationship with the moon

Broadcaster: BBC ALBA
Original TX Date: 04 07 2011

Wedding business

Getting married abroad

Broadcaster: BBC ALBA
Original TX Date: 06 07 2011

Scotland and the gun

The story of the gun in Scottish society

Broadcaster: BBC ALBA
Original TX Date: 11 07 2011

Stolen children

International parental custody battles

Broadcaster: BBC ALBA
Original TX Date: 13 07 2011

The hand that gives

A look at some of the many people who do voluntary work

Broadcaster: BBC ALBA
Original TX Date: 18 07 2011

Islands for sale

Island paradises for sale

Broadcaster: BBC ALBA
Original TX Date: 20 07 2011

Communication

The world of the deaf, the blind, and the deafblind

Broadcaster: BBC ALBA
Original TX Date: 25 07 2011

Babies made in India

The Indian surrogacy business

Broadcaster: BBC ALBA
Original TX Date: 27 07 2011

Bobbin Mill

The Travellers Tale

Broadcaster: BBC ALBA
Original TX Date: 01 08 2011

Cowboy kids of Dublin

The children who own horses in Dublin

Broadcaster: BBC ALBA
Original TX Date: 03 08 2011

The Big Day

A snapshot of what the country was up to on the royal wedding day

Broadcaster: BBC ALBA
Original TX Date: 08 08 2011

Escaping North Korea

A perilous 10,000 km trip from China to South Korea

Broadcaster: BBC ALBA
Original TX Date: 10 08 2011

Change of heart

Heart disease is still the biggest killer in Scotland - why?

Broadcaster: BBCALBA
Original TX Date: 29 08 2011

Footballers and beauty queens

The PeladÃ£o football festival of Brazil

Broadcaster: BBCALBA
Original TX Date: 31 08 2011

Canada - The journey

Following students from the Isle of Lewis on an exchange trip to Canada

Broadcaster: BBCALBA
Original TX Date: 05 09 2011

Canada - Coast to coast

Lars Monsen travels from North east-Alaska to the Labrador-coast

Broadcaster: BBCALBA
Original TX Date: 07 09 2011

Imprisoned

A look at the future for Scotlandâs under pressure prison system

Broadcaster: BBCALBA
Original TX Date: 12 09 2011

Black Samurai

The legendary Donga of the Surma people

Broadcaster: BBCALBA
Original TX Date: 14 09 2011

Calum's Rally

Life in the high octane world of rally driving

Broadcaster: BBCALBA
Original TX Date: 19 09 2011

School on the move

Travelling school in Siberia

Broadcaster: BBC ALBA
Original TX Date: 21 09 2011

The Pope’s Visit

A look at Pope Benedict XVIâs visit to Scotland

Broadcaster: BBCALBA
Original TX Date: 26 09 2011

Samucha, The Lost Shepherd

Samuchaâs last season with his flock

Broadcaster: BBCALBA
Original TX Date: 28 09 2011

Empowering the islands

The Western Isles has the highest number of residents living under fuel poverty in Scotland

Broadcaster: BBCALBA
Original TX Date: 03 10 2011

Nomads land

Being married to the military

Broadcaster: BBCALBA
Original TX Date: 05 10 2011

Ups and downs

A look at Down Syndrome, and the many misconceptions that surround it

Broadcaster: BBCALBA
Original TX Date: 10 10 2011

Hell’s Miners of Potosi

Mining in Potosi

Broadcaster: BBCALBA
Original TX Date: 24 10 2011

Bipolar & Me

A look at the many stigmas that those with mental health problems experience

Broadcaster: BBCALBA
Original TX Date: 24 10 2011

Raids in the Rainforest

The fight to save Campos Amazonicos National Park

Broadcaster: BBCALBA
Original TX Date: 26 10 2011

New Songs, The Calling

2010 - the âYear of Songâ. But what does the future hold for Gaelic song?

Broadcaster: BBCALBA
Original TX Date: 31 10 2011

Razorwire Rodeo

A Rodeo with a difference

Broadcaster: BBCALBA
Original TX Date: 02 11 2011

Lewis Camanachd – Black and Blue

Following Lewis Camanachd through their debut season in the national league

Broadcaster: BBCALBA
Original TX Date: 07 11 2011

My Mother’s Farm

Tale Kalnaâs Story

Broadcaster: BBCALBA
Original TX Date: 09 11 2011

Kenneth Mckellar

Scotlandâs greatest Tenor

Broadcaster: BBCALBA
Original TX Date: 14 11 2011

Cape of Good Voices

The Cape Town Opera

Broadcaster: BBCALBA
Original TX Date: 16 11 2011

The Silver Darlings

A look at the modern herring industry

Broadcaster: BBC ALBA
Original TX Date: 21 11 2011

Jamie Climbing against all the odds

Jamieâs personal triumph

Broadcaster: BBC ALBA
Original TX Date: 23 11 2011

Sea Shepherds

Taking to the seas and islands with the Sea Shepherds of the Western Isles

Broadcaster: BBC ALBA
Original TX Date: 28 11 2011

Into the Wild

We meet some people who have embraced Scotlandâs wild lands

Broadcaster: BBC ALBA
Original TX Date: 05 12 2011

Horseman of Everest

A horse for a Himalayan sherpa

Broadcaster: BBC ALBA
Original TX Date: 07 12 2011

Addictions

Personal battles with addiction.

Broadcaster: BBC ALBA
Original TX Date: 12 12 2011

Broad Peak

Base jumping Arctic style

Broadcaster: BBC ALBA
Original TX Date: 14 12 2011

MS - Scotland’s Lonely Disease

A glimpse into the lives of those who live with MS.

Broadcaster: BBC ALBA
Original TX Date: 19 12 2011

Antarctica

2 men embark on an ocean expedition to Antarctica

Broadcaster: BBC ALBA
Original TX Date: 21 12 2011

There once was an island

Broadcaster:
Original TX Date: 29 12 2011

Wings over Antartica

Broadcaster: BBC ALBA
Original TX Date: 04 01 2012

Porridge - love it or hate it?

A light-hearted look at the evolution of porridge

Broadcaster: BBC ALBA
Original TX Date: 09 01 2012

The justice boat

The Justice Boat of the Amazon

Broadcaster: BBC ALBA
Original TX Date: 11 01 2012

Born under the northern star

A baby girlâs life in the North Pole

Broadcaster: BBC ALBA
Original TX Date: 18 01 2012

The toxic tiredness 1

A glimpse into the suffering and bravery of those living with ME

Broadcaster: BBC ALBA
Original TX Date: 23 01 2012

Prison island Bastoy

An island that serves as a prison

Broadcaster: BBC ALBA
Original TX Date: 26 01 2012

The toxic tiredness 2

A look at the scientific debate behind the world of ME

Broadcaster: BBC ALBA
Original TX Date: 30 01 2012

The last rodeo

Profile of a rodeo rider

Broadcaster: BBC ALBA
Original TX Date: 01 02 2012

Katia

A young climber embarks on a personal and poignant challenge to conquer a mountain

Broadcaster: BBC ALBA
Original TX Date: 08 02 2012

Access all areas?

A look at accessibility for wheelchair users in Scotland.

Broadcaster: BBC ALBA
Original TX Date: 13 02 2012

Orphans of Tibet

A Tibetan school in Northern India

Broadcaster: BBC ALBA
Original TX Date: 15 02 2012

The Bard’s Legacy

An American musician discovers his family history on the Isle of Lewis

Broadcaster: BBC ALBA
Original TX Date: 20 02 2012

Surfing nomads

8 weeks folling the Atlantic Coast in search of the true spirit of the surfing life

Broadcaster: BBC ALBA
Original TX Date: 22 02 2012

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