Alex Norton

Jack Docherty brings together a jam-packed cast of comedians, actors and famous faces for a riotous celebration of Scotland's most valuable export – its sense of humour. Scotland is a small nation with a big funny bone. It's known the world over for self-deprecation, quick-witted patter and deadpan asides. But what makes it so funny? To find out the answer, this programme delves deep into the BBC Scotland archives to find a century’s worth of classic characters, catchphrases and comedy clips.

A vida de um caçador de monstros marinhos vira de cabeça para baixo depois que uma menina se esconde em seu navio.

Depois que seu lar é ameaçado por humanos, um jovem dragão precisa reunir coragem para partir em busca de um lendário paraíso repleto de paz e liberdade.

Featuring archive interviews with Sean Connery from over 50 years in the business. Friends, actors and directors including Robert Carlyle, Dougray Scott, Laurence Fishburne, Terry Gilliam and George Lucas pay tribute to Scotland's greatest movie star as he celebrates his 85th birthday.

Comedy set in a chaotic Hogmanay party. Beth and Eric Baird's Hogmanay goes horribly wrong as family, friends and neighbours descend on their home. As they count down to the bells in traditional Scottish style, a lively evening is assured as drink flows and Beth's legendary steak pie comes out of the oven. Secrets are revealed, tempers fray, scores are settled and a gazebo is destroyed.

Alex Norton discovers how showbusiness has handled the portrayal of the Scottish accent. For over 100 years audiences have struggled to understand our braw brogue: silent Harry Lauder films attempted an accent in the captions, and in Hollywood's golden era , everyone wanted to paint their tonsils tartan- but as examples from Katharine Hepburn, Orson Welles and Richard Chamberlain show, they couldnae. Then Disney made Brave and proved that it disnae have to be all bad!

An aging, skateboarding veterinarian Sir Billi goes above and beyond the call of duty fighting villainous policemen and powerful lairds in a battle to save an illegal fugitive - Bessie Boo the beaver!

Will e Elizabeth estão prestes a se casar quando o lendário pirata Davy Jones, comandante do invencível navio assombrado, aparece para cobrar uma dívida do capitão Jack Sparrow, amigo do casal. A única chance de Sparrow se livrar de uma maldição de Jones é encontrando o baú da morte.

Petula (Rachel Weisz) e Dorothy (Susan Lynch) são duas amigas que vivem em Glasgow. Ambas namoram gângsters e ambas também apanham deles. Até que um dia, quando Dorothy resolve reagir e atacar o namorado de Petula, que está batendo nela naquele momento, ela acidentalmente o mata. Desesperadas, as duas agora propõem um plano que faça parecer que uma delas foi sequestrada, para que o assassinato possa ser disfarçado de sequestro.

Local journalist, Cameron Colley writes articles that are idealistic, from the viewpoint of the underdog. A twisted serial killer seems to have some motives. His brutal murders are also committed on behalf of the underdog. The stories begin to merge and Cameron find himself inextricably and inextricably implicated by the brutal killer. The arms dealer that Cameron plans to expose is found literally 'disarmed' before he can put pen to paper. The brewery chief, loathed by Cameron, who sold up at the expense of his workers, finds himself permanently unemployable. The police are convened of Cameron's guilt and so are half his friends and colleagues. Cameron is forced to employ all his investigative skills to find the real killer and his motive.

After the death of her father, Little Voice or LV becomes a virtual recluse, never going out and hardly ever saying a word. She just sits in her bedroom listening to her father's collection of old records of Shirley Bassey, Marilyn Monroe and various other famous female singers. But at night time, LV sings, imitating these great singers with surprising accuracy. One night she is overheard by one of her mother's boyfriends, who happens to be a talent agent. He manages to convince her that her talent is special and arranges for her to perform at the local night club, but several problems arise.

A group of four siblings reunite in Glasgow on the eve of their mother's funeral, and the children mourn their mother's passing in a variety of ways—sometimes heartfelt, sometimes bizarre. As a potential thunderstorm threatens to damage the city, the situation compounds itself.

Jean Valjean rouba um pedaço de pão e é injustamente condenado a prisão e a marginalidade. Mais tarde ele se apaixona por Fantine, cuja morte intempestiva faz com que ele se transforme no pai adotivo de Cosette, filha de sua amada. O tempo passa e a menina Cosette se apaixona profundamente por Marius, um jovem e carismático revolucionário.

Drama based on the true story of Deacon Brodie one of Scotland's most notorious criminals. In 1788 Deacon Brodie a master cabinet maker and town councillor is a rogue and a hedonist. He steals money but gives it back. He attempts to steal a fortune from the city's Customs and Excise office but the attempt fails and he is caught. There is a widely-publicised trial and he is sentenced to death to be hanged on the gallows he designed.

Jimmy Muir comes from a typical gritty, northern town where there are only two options: working down the pit or in a factory. But Jimmy has other ideas - he dreams of becoming a professional footballer. Confronted by a bitter and unsupportive father, hard drinking friends and a lifetime of bad habits...has Jimmy the will to achieve his ultimate goal?

No século XIII, soldados ingleses matam a mulher do escocês William Wallace, bem na sua noite de núpcias. Para vingar a amada, ele resolve liderar seu povo em uma luta contra o cruel Rei inglês Edward I. Com a ajuda de Robert e Bruce, ele vai deflagrar uma violenta batalha com o objetivo de libertar a Escócia de uma vez por todas.

Um bravo guerreiro e seu amigo são capturados por comerciantes e levados como escravos para a Inglaterra.

Ian Deegan and Charlie Collins are best friends who team up to appear on TV in a popular snooker based game show. But, when they hit their jackpot, their friendship comes under tremendous strain as they find that they cannot agree on how best to split their winnings.

Set in Glasgow, Louie, the detective son of an upright police sergeant, is about to marry. His intended is the daughter of JoJo (Connolly), a wealthy and compulsive thief who attempts a spectacular robbery. Louie is put in charge of the investigation of JoJo's latest enterprise. JoJo learns of his peril and begins an exercise in risk management.

Based on actual accounts, this film portrays the days and hours before and during the invasion of the Falkland Islands by Argentina, which eventually lead to the Falklands War. As the Argentine forces land on the main island and make their way towards Government House, the handful of British defenders batten down the hatches and prepare to defend the Governor Rex Hunt, his family and their fellow islanders from the invaders.

Jack Ryan, um ex-agente da CIA, frustra uma tentativa de assassinato, ficando sujeito à fúria de um maníaco. Depois de neutralizar os vilões e decidir celebrar a ocasião, tudo parece estar de volta ao normal, mas não é assim que as coisas acontecem.

Hotel Gabriella, Veneza. Uma confusão de identidades atinge o prefeito de uma pequena cidade, Melvyn Orton (Dudley Moore), com um corretor imobiliário, Maurice Horton (Richard Griffiths), e um pistoleiro da máfia, Mike Lawton (Bryan Brown), que espera ordens para executar seu próximo serviço. Esta semelhança nos nomes faz o mensageiro do hotel trocar as mensagens, o que causa uma enorme confusão.

In the late 1950s, British police officer Tony Aaron resigns from the force after sleeping with Hazel, wife of the man whose house he was supposed to guard. In his new job as a fake private investigator, he helps couples get divorces by photographing Hazel having "affairs" with the husband. When she is murdered during a job, Tony begins having an affair with the dead man's mistress, Angeline, while trying to prove his innocence.

Após o nobre saxão Robert Hode confrontar Sir Miles Folcanet a respeito de sua cruel agressão contra um aldeão, Folcanet insiste que o Barão Roger Daguerre lhe dê uma punição por sua insolência. Daguerre, sendo amigo do Hode, sugere uma pena leve; Hode se rebela e foge para floresta de Sherwood, onde ele se torna Robin Hood.

True story about the tragic nuclear power plant accident in Chernobyl.

O veterano e consagrado cineasta John Wilson chega à África com todo o elenco e equipe de filmagens para rodar sua mais nova produção. Ele não demora a descobrir que a caçada de elefantes é um desafio à altura de seu temperamento indomável e acaba dominado pela obsessão de abater um destes animais, enquanto seu velho amigo e roteirista Pete Verrill e seu produtor, Paul Landers, tentam convencê-lo a todo custo a não abandonar o filme.

Johnny Fortune (Damon Lowry) is no good to anyone, not mean, but just no good. Surrounded by violence and dishonesty, Johnny lives with Kate. Johnny messes up, he loses a lot of money, his girlfriend Kate's money. Alone, desperate and on the run from a couple of hit-men, he applies for a job as an entertainer's assistant becoming a dancing bear. Unwittingly learning of secrets around him, his past catches up with him.

Based on a play, the story details the dramatic negotiations between UK, France, Poland, Nazi-Germany and USSR from the day Czechoslovakia fell, until Britain's declaration of war on Germany caused by Hitler's invasion of Poland.

Em 1963, no auge da Guerra Fria, a imprensa britânica revela que John Profumo, ministro da Defesa da Inglaterra, tem um caso com uma prostituta de elite que também se relaciona com Ivanov, adido naval soviético em Londres.

A moving, comic tale of three boys about to leave a grim Catholic School in Greenock, Scotland, who find they must each choose a different path in life as they face the future.

Young, handsome and alone in London at the start of a great career. But will Sunil's luck hold out against the seductions of pretty girls, the wiles of con-men and a hundred temptations of the great city?

The story of "The Tolpuddle Martyrs". A group of 19th century English farm labourers who formed one of the first trade unions and started a campaign to receive fair wages.

Cassies Stuart leads the uncooperative Charles Dance into a world of misplaces government secrets, capalistic artists and bungling secret agents. Will the truth be out, or will the attempts of agents suppress the truth hidden within government propaganda films, classified as top secret by complete mistake, be successful. Or is it the mysterious medical records that are the true catch of the spies.

James Scott's biopic of his father William Scott, his childhood and his origins as a painter.

Radio host Alan 'Dickie' Bird witnesses how an icecream van is attacked and destroyed by angry competitors. This leads him into the struggle between two Italian families over the icecream market of Glasgow.

Uma companhia petrolífera americana envia um homem para a Escócia para comprar uma vila inteira onde eles querem construir uma refinaria. Mas as coisas não correm como o esperado.

Bernard Fripp is told by his doctor that he has only 30 minutes left to live. This sets Bernard bumbling off on a mission to live his final minutes to the fullest.

Gregory é um adolescente normal, que é apaixonado por uma amiga. Ele deve se esforçar para conquistar sua afeição.

The true story of Jimmy Boyle, who was reputed to be Scotland's most violent man.

'Five days of darkness then. Unless you get it together we will have five days of darkness. And on the sixth day you will say, let there be light, and no doubt it'll an be such an effort that on the seventh day you'll have to rest!'. TV play by Sean McCarthy.

It's the day of the Orange Parade in Glasgow, but for Jon, the thrill of leading the parade and swinging the mace soon turns to horror as he learns the truth behind the costumes and songs.

The "ceilidh play", as writer John McGrath styled it, is presented in the BBC's 1974 "Play for Today" production to a live audience intercut with filmed reconstructions of the Highland Clearances and the Victorian obsession with hunting stags. Restored in high definition from the original film masters held in the BBC Archives.

A pleasure cruiser is abandoned by all aboard and Ian, Janet and Harry, children of a trawler skipper go out in their launch to claim her. They are marooned on the cruiser by accident and saved by a rival trawler skipper.