First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on March 26th 2023

For various reasons, I’ve been watching quite a lot of television set in and around Scotland over the past couple of months, and, as it rather luckily turns out, for many similar reasons, so has one of our regular visitors to the programme, and, even more luckily, that visitor is SANDY McGREGOR, which means that we can safely talk about all manner of things related to Scottish made and Scotland set television without much risk of upsetting anybody.

Well, at least he can.

So, over the course of the next hour, we talk about a wide range of Scottish-based dramas such as TUTTI FRUTTI, YOUR CHEATIN’ HEART, THE CROW ROAD, SUNSET SONG, and SUTHERLAND”S LAW. We also briefly skirt around the knotty issue of those classic crime dramas TAGGART and REBUS, give a nod to STILL GAME, and, don’t worry, TAKE THE HIGH ROAD does at least get a mention.

We’ll also be touching upon representations of Scotland on television generally, and those pesky “local variations” and whether they tended to annoy a youngster growing up north of the border. And we’ll also be considering at least a few of the issues raised in SANJEEV KOHLI’s excellent programme WHA’S LIKE US.

PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content sometimes has to be removed for the podcast edition. All the spoken word content remains (mostly) as it was in the broadcast version. Hopefully this won't spoil your enjoyment of the show.