Drama series based on Finlay J MacDonald's account of life in the Scottish Hebrides in the 1930s. Finlay and his family move to Scarista. An engagement party brings joy and sorrow. Show more

John Cooper Clarke explores Thomas de Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater, and discovers how this addiction memoir avoids the cliches of modern 'misery-lit'. Show more

Lee's jealousy spirals out of control when he thinks Amber is getting too close to a business acquaintance of Lydia's. Ruth tries to win Andy's mum over with an elegant dinner. Show more

Drama series based on Finlay J MacDonald's account of life in the Scottish Hebrides in the 1930s. Finlay travels to Tarbert to spend the holidays at his grandparents. Show more

Wildlife cameramen reveal some of their favourite natural history moments. Polar cameraman and diver Doug Allan relives some of his most hair-raising encounters. Show more

Documentary series charting Scottish history. Neil Oliver reveals the story of the infamous Highland/Lowland divide, which was the result of a family struggle. Show more

Rev Richard Coles dives beneath the surface of children's classic The Water-Babies to reveal the revolutionary science behind the story and the influence it had on social reform. Show more

Nicholas Parsons explores the fine line between joy and melancholy in Edward Lear's writing and discovers how this epileptic, asthmatic depressive pioneered a new kind of poetry. Show more

Fiona Shaw explores the genesis of The Mill on the Floss, and discovers how the scandal that caused George Eliot to take a male pen name also plays out in the plot of her novel. Show more

Dr Janina Ramirez unravels Edmund Spenser's Elizabethan epic The Faerie Queene to reveal how this fantasy world was written during Tudor occupation of Ireland. Show more

Author Joanna Trollope traces the roots of her favourite book Cider with Rosie to uncover how Laurie Lee blended fact and fiction in his wistful elegy to a disappeared rural world. Show more

John Sergeant learns how Arthur Ransome came to perfect a new, more authentic kind of children's literature that featured real children doing real things in real places. Show more

How the architecture and design of the 20s and 30s created and reflected the spirit of the age, with the fun of Art Deco next to the functionality of Modernism. Show more

Derek Jacobi goes in search of David Garrick, 18th-century superstar and the man who reinvented acting for the modern era.

Samantha Bond reveals how a rootless childhood and terrible personal tragedy led Edith Nesbit to create a new kind of children's fiction, a blend of magic and realism. Show more

A look at movie dads and their boys in a programme which reveals how the relationship expresses both unchanging desires and rapidly shifting circumstances. Show more

A look back at how, from the early 50s until the early 80s Scottish Hogmanay shows were a fixture of the festive schedule, a mix of sentimentality, bonhomie and toe-tapping music. Show more

Leo's mental and physical health deteriorates. Big Bob becomes a pariah following his arrest for curb crawling. Andy is offered a job in Dubai - but will he accept it? Show more

After visiting a clairvoyant on Christmas Eve, Maria makes an important decision when she is visited by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future. Show more

Jewellery designer Shaun Leane uncovers some of the secrets of the hoard of nearly 500 Elizabethan and Jacobean jewels discovered by workmen in London's Cheapside district in 1912. Show more