mactv Programme Information
Trusadh
Groundbreaking Gaelic documentary series
- Broadcaster: BBC ALBA
- Original TX Date: 24 04 2009
- Genre: Factual
- No. Episodes: 20
- Total Time: 0
- Co-producer:
- Awards:
Individual Episodes
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