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BBC – Dream Me Up Scotty (2013)

BBC – Dream Me Up Scotty (2013)
English | Size: 754 MB
Category: Documentary

Alex Norton goes on a Scottish accent safari hunting for the good the bad and the totally bowfing of mock jock acting. 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.

BBC Imagine – Lenny Henry Young Gifted and Black (2020)

BBC Imagine – Lenny Henry: Young Gifted and Black (2020)
English | Size: 1.15 GB
Category: Documentary

Alan Yentob follows the comedian and actor as he publishes his autobiography. Lenny meets up with his closest friends, family and colleagues to remember his sudden rise to fame at the age of 16 on TV talent show New Faces, which catapulted him from working-class West Midlands kid to one of Britain’s most celebrated black performers. Alan explores his other TV roles on Tiswas and Three of a Kind, as well as his controversial time as the only black performer on The Black and White Minstrel Show. Lenny also discusses his recent career reinvention as a serious actor and his work as a political activist campaigning for greater diversity in entertainment and broadcasting.

BBC – Billy Connolly Made in Scotland (2018)

BBC – Billy Connolly: Made in Scotland (2018)
English | Size: 1.78 GB
Category: Documentary

In British comedy there is a line in the sand and that line is Billy Connolly. Before he found fame on an international level, British comedy was an end-of-the-pier kind of affair – but through sheer talent and force of personality, Connolly ploughed a different and deeply personal yet universal approach to comedy and in doing so he changed the face of British comedy forever.

BBC – Alasdair Gray at Eighty (2014)

BBC – Alasdair Gray at Eighty (2014)
English | Size: 976 MB
Category: Documentary

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Alasdair Gray is a giant of Scottish arts. He’s a great writer, artist, irascible interviewee and controversial essayist. In this intimate portrait, filmed over 15 years, we see him creating work that has become part of the living heritage of Scotland. His novel Lanark is the finest work of Scottish 20th-century literature, and his painting of the Oran Mor Arts Centre is Scotland’s 21st-century Sistine Chapel. This documentary reveals a character who is by turns incisive, chaotic and laugh-out-loud funny.