BBC Scotland TV Guide
This is BBC Scotland
Highlights from the BBC Scotland channel.
6h 00:00 – 06:00
This is BBC Scotland
Highlights from the BBC Scotland channel.
6h 06:00 – 12:00
This is BBC Scotland
Highlights from the BBC Scotland channel.
2h 30 min 12:00 – 14:30
Politics Scotland
A look at the week’s events at Westminster and Holyrood.
30 min 14:30 – 15:00
This is BBC Scotland
Highlights from the BBC Scotland channel.
4h 15:00 – 19:00
Reporting Scotland
More from the day’s top stories and communities across Scotland.
30 min 19:00 – 19:30
Scotland's Home of the Year
Interior designers Anna Campbell Jones and Banjo Beale and architect Danny Campbell are in the south. Here, they must choose between an upper maisonette in Dumfries, an extended Victorian semi-detached near Dalbeattie and a modernised U-shaped home in Peebles. Scoring them on architectural merit, distinctive design and personal style, which home will Anna, Banjo and Danny judge worthy enough to go forward to the grand final.
30 min 19:30 – 20:00
Grand Tours of Scotland's Rivers
3\/3 In this Grand Tours double bill, Paul follows the River Irvine in Ayrshire and the River Forth in Central Scotland – two different but iconic water courses.
1h 20:00 – 21:00
Debate Night
Topical debate on the big issues affecting Scotland and beyond. Members of the public have an hour to put their questions to a panel of politicians and other public figures about the biggest stories and the things they care about the most.
1h 21:00 – 22:00
The Troops
Scots defend trenches in Estonia, while others scout enemy lines and protect HQ. In Catterick, chaos reigns in riot training, while ceremonial troops in Edinburgh fight for redemption.
1h 22:00 – 23:00
Scotcast
Conversation about Scotland’s biggest news stories, hosted by Martin Geissler.
1h 23:00 – 00:00
This is BBC Scotland
Highlights from the BBC Scotland channel.
6h 00:00 – 06:00
This is BBC Scotland
Highlights from the BBC Scotland channel.
6h 06:00 – 12:00
Politics Scotland
Kirsten Campbell introduces First Minister’s Questions from the Scottish Parliament.
1h 12:00 – 13:00
This is BBC Scotland
Highlights from the BBC Scotland channel.
5h 13:00 – 18:00
This is BBC Scotland
Highlights from the BBC Scotland channel.
1h 18:00 – 19:00
Reporting Scotland
More from the day’s top stories and communities across Scotland.
30 min 19:00 – 19:30
The Entertainment Mix
Michelle McManus serves up big name interviews, features and the latest in entertainment and culture news from across Scotland.
30 min 19:30 – 20:00
Scotland’s Sacred Islands with Ben Fogle
Travelling to Arran and Holy Isle, Ben Fogle learns how they’re a haven for diverse faiths and beliefs, makes Jewish challah bread and visits a Buddhist peace centre.
1h 20:00 – 21:00
Dinosaur
Nina’s ‘work husband’, Clay, puts a strain on things between her and Lee. But an invitation from Lee to an open mic night gives Nina a chance to find out where she stands.
30 min 21:00 – 21:30
Dinosaur
After a drunken error, Nina must battle a number of different challenges to try and correct her mistake. However, despite her best efforts, has the damage already been done.
30 min 21:30 – 22:00
Scotland Stands Up
Join Stuart Mitchell for a brilliant night of stand-up comedy, featuring Jay Lafferty, Ayo Adenekan and Krystal Evans, and a special appearance from Robert Florence. Recorded live at the Church Hill Theatre in Edinburgh, the show is packed with hilarious anecdotes and sharp one-liners from some of the best comedians in Scotland right now. Edinburgh-based American Krystal Evans finds the funny in the differences and similarities in our world views and family values, while rising star Ayo Adenekan wrestles with his identity and reveals his ambitions to become a truly unique Scottish superhero. Jay Lafferty vividly describes the challenges she faces as she gets older to an audience who couldn’t agree more, and our headliner, Robert Florence, who is making a rare stand-up appearance, dons his centurion helmet to make us laugh.
30 min 22:00 – 22:30
Martin Compston's Scottish Fling
Martin Compston and pal Phil MacHugh travel Scotland’s east coast, from St Andrews to Aberdeen, challenging expectations by revealing the surprising side of some well-known places.
30 min 22:30 – 23:00
Scotcast
Conversation about Scotland’s biggest news stories, hosted by Martin Geissler.
1h 23:00 – 00:00
This is BBC Scotland
Highlights from the BBC Scotland channel.
6h 00:00 – 06:00
This is BBC Scotland
Highlights from the BBC Scotland channel.
6h 06:00 – 12:00
This is BBC Scotland
Highlights from the BBC Scotland channel.
6h 12:00 – 18:00
This is BBC Scotland
Highlights from the BBC Scotland channel.
1h 18:00 – 19:00
Reporting Scotland
More from the day’s top stories and communities across Scotland.
30 min 19:00 – 19:30
Sportscene: Championship Live
Live Championship football sees struggling Airdrie take on promotion-chasing St Johnstone.
2h 30 min 19:30 – 22:00
Still Game
Charity begins at home as Jack and Victor offer a helping hand to Methadone Mick. A parking fine from the past comes back to haunt Winston, and Boabby's award glory goes awry.
30 min 22:00 – 22:30
Two Doors Down
Eric gets an excellent report from his health check so he and Beth decide to celebrate by booking their first holiday in seven years. Cathy and Colin have built a hot tub in their back garden and are hosting a party to show it off to the neighbours. Sophie has got her first baby scan picture. Christine wants everyone to see it but it's the only copy.
1h 30 min 22:30 – 00:00
This is BBC Scotland
Highlights from the BBC Scotland channel.
6h 00:00 – 06:00
This is BBC Scotland
Highlights from the BBC Scotland channel.
6h 06:00 – 12:00
This is BBC Scotland
Highlights from the BBC Scotland channel.
6h 12:00 – 18:00
This is BBC Scotland
Highlights from the BBC Scotland channel.
1h 18:00 – 19:00
Reporting Scotland
All the weekend national, UK-wide and international news on Saturday evening at 7.
15 min 19:00 – 19:15
Sportscene: Premiership Highlights
Steven Thompson presents highlights of Dundee v Livingston, Falkirk v Dundee United and Hibernian v St Mirren.
45 min 19:15 – 20:00
Icons of Football
How Steve Archibald made the leap from part-time football at Clyde and working as a car mechanic to star striker at Barcelona.
30 min 20:00 – 20:30
Sacked in the Morning
Craig Levein and Amy Irons are joined by Nottingham Forest legend Viv Anderson, who talks first impressions, European Cup success and moving cows off the pitch.
30 min 20:30 – 21:00
The Chief
The Chief is made aware of a potential newspaper scoop featuring a leaked recording that could sink his whole career. His paranoia soon becomes all-consuming, and he suspects those around him in the force - even his own family - of betrayal. These explosive revelations threaten to eclipse his revolutionary new police work policy, where he redefines the very nature of crime. As his relationship with government, press and the public deteriorates, will he be forced to redefine the very nature of the Chief.
30 min 21:00 – 21:30
The Chief
Though he is married to the force, and justice is his mistress, the Chief feels the time is right to dip his toe into the water and get back out there, hoping to meet a high flyer at a similar level to himself.
30 min 21:30 – 22:00
Meet the Buchanans
Scottish enthusiasts from around the world join the Clan Buchanan family in deepest Perthshire for the inauguration of their newly confirmed chief, the Scottish millionaire landowner Mike Buchanan. Without a chief for 300 years, and few historical records to rely on, ceremony and dress are being freely invented. Are the Buchanans reinvigorating Scottish tradition as they say, or following in the tradition of their famous ancestral house guest Sir Walter Scott, the writer who created the romanticised image of Scotland that still endures to this day. This irreverent documentary takes a sideways look at how traditions are created and witnesses history being made, or at least made up.
2h 22:00 – 00:00
This is BBC Scotland
Highlights from the BBC Scotland channel.
6h 00:00 – 06:00
This is BBC Scotland
Highlights from the BBC Scotland channel.
6h 06:00 – 12:00
This is BBC Scotland
Highlights from the BBC Scotland channel.
6h 12:00 – 18:00
This is BBC Scotland
Highlights from the BBC Scotland channel.
1h 18:00 – 19:00
Reporting Scotland
All the weekend national, UK-wide and international news on Sunday evening at 7.
15 min 19:00 – 19:15
Sportscene: Premiership Highlights
Extended highlights of the afternoon’s fixtures in the Scottish Premiership, featuring Rangers v Hearts, Kilmarnock v Celtic and Motherwell v Aberdeen.
1h 19:15 – 20:15
The Repair Shop on the Road
The team are in Alloa, Scotland’s smallest county, hoping to revive Alloa Co-op Bowling Club’s faded and warped sign in their centenary year. Meanwhile, Dom delivers Steve a 19th-century regulator clock from the Hebrides that has a ghostly connection, and Will heads north to Rothes to learn the fiery, and very loud, craft behind forging traditional copper stills for the multibillion-dollar whisky industry.
45 min 20:15 – 21:00
Paramedics on Scene
An 85-year-old man from Edinburgh has been trapped under his own floorboards for three days and is in need of rescue.
1h 21:00 – 22:00
Still Game
Charity begins at home as Jack and Victor offer a helping hand to Methadone Mick. A parking fine from the past comes back to haunt Winston, and Boabby's award glory goes awry.
30 min 22:00 – 22:30
Dinosaur
Nina’s ‘work husband’, Clay, puts a strain on things between her and Lee. But an invitation from Lee to an open mic night gives Nina a chance to find out where she stands.
30 min 22:30 – 23:00
Dinosaur
After a drunken error, Nina must battle a number of different challenges to try and correct her mistake. However, despite her best efforts, has the damage already been done.
1h 23:00 – 00:00
This is BBC Scotland
Highlights from the BBC Scotland channel.
6h 00:00 – 06:00
This is BBC Scotland
Highlights from the BBC Scotland channel.
6h 06:00 – 12:00
This is BBC Scotland
Highlights from the BBC Scotland channel.
2h 12:00 – 14:00
Banjo and Ro’s Grand Island Hotel
Banjo and Ro race to finish their dream kitchen before winter, but missing windows, muddy pigs and a looming £14,000 penalty threaten all.
30 min 14:00 – 14:30
Island Crossings
Kerrera Island’s annual triathlon is at risk due to bad weather, while a folk legend explains why being a binman on Barra makes him proud.
1h 14:30 – 15:30
Eat the Town
It’s Stranraer’s turn for a visit from the Eat the Town team as Dazza and Natalie eat their way through the Dumfries and Galloway town. As well as enjoying three meals recommended by locals, the duo try their hand at curling and go-karting, which sees Dazza making a high-stakes bet he may come to regret. At the end of the day, one of them is going to be taking home what could be the most coveted secret prize in Eat the Town history.
30 min 15:30 – 16:00
This is BBC Scotland
Highlights from the BBC Scotland channel.
3h 16:00 – 19:00
Reporting Scotland
More from the day’s top stories and communities across Scotland.
30 min 19:00 – 19:30
Our Lives
Chloe O'Brien is an 18-year-old from Perthshire, and darts is her life. She was a serial winner as a junior, but can she cope with the highs and lows of life in the adult ranks? This film follows her attempt to break into the Scottish ladies' team for the first time.
30 min 19:30 – 20:00
The Repair Shop on the Road
Prestwick’s Broadway Cinema hasn’t shown a film since its doors closed in 1976, so Mark Stuckey and Steve Rowley must battle rust, missing wires and obsolete carbon-arc lamps if they hope to bring its twin projectors back to life. Dom meets Shetlander Victoria, who needs her grandfather’s accordion fixed if she is to realise her busking ambitions, and then discovers the centuries-old art of enamelling watch dials, a craft that demands steady hands.
45 min 20:00 – 20:45
Beechgrove Garden
Scotland boasts some of the very best public gardens in the UK. We visit a selection of Scottish gardens that are open to the public but we are given personal, and sometimes behind-the-scenes, tours of these lovely places. Kirsty shows the hidden living roof at the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh, Brian gives insight into Scone Palace’s hedge maze, and at Branklyn Gardens in Perth we are treated to the gardener’s tour.
15 min 20:45 – 21:00
Designing the Hebrides
Banjo has been commissioned by fish shop manager and friend Sally, who wants to modernise her family’s traditional business in Tobermory. Banjo has bold plans to utterly transform both the inside and outside of the shop, but Sally is worried that her family will disapprove of the radical makeover. With his band of trusty locals, including Eoghann the carpenter and handyman Tom, Banjo takes huge risks in realising his design ambitions - but how will the family feel about the new look.
30 min 21:00 – 21:30
Designing the Hebrides
A short ferry ride from the Isle of Mull lies Ulva, a tiny island with a handful of residents. Banjo has been asked to update a small bothy which the islanders want to rent out to visitors. With no power, water or easy access, Banjo has his work cut out. However, with the help of handyman Tom, painter Lisa and her husband Ro, he embarks on his most ambitious design brief to date. Can he turn this tumbledown shelter into a cosy, inviting retreat.
30 min 21:30 – 22:00
Scotland Stands Up
Join Stuart Mitchell for a brilliant night of stand-up comedy, featuring Jay Lafferty, Ayo Adenekan and Krystal Evans, and a special appearance from Robert Florence. Recorded live at the Church Hill Theatre in Edinburgh, the show is packed with hilarious anecdotes and sharp one-liners from some of the best comedians in Scotland right now. Edinburgh-based American Krystal Evans finds the funny in the differences and similarities in our world views and family values, while rising star Ayo Adenekan wrestles with his identity and reveals his ambitions to become a truly unique Scottish superhero. Jay Lafferty vividly describes the challenges she faces as she gets older to an audience who couldn’t agree more, and our headliner, Robert Florence, who is making a rare stand-up appearance, dons his centurion helmet to make us laugh.
30 min 22:00 – 22:30
Two Doors Down
Cathy and Colin have returned from a luxury cruise and seem strangely keen to persuade neighbours Eric and Beth to join them on their next trip. However, it soon transpires they have an ulterior motive - getting hold of a cheap deal. With Eric and Beth politely declining, the determined couple have another target in mind. Christine, fresh from a PPI refund windfall, wants to crow about her good fortune, and Beth is railroaded into holding a celebratory barbecue - the perfect moment for the holiday hunters to pounce.
30 min 22:30 – 23:00
Scotcast
Conversation about Scotland’s biggest news stories, hosted by Martin Geissler.
1h 23:00 – 00:00
This is BBC Scotland
Highlights from the BBC Scotland channel.
6h 00:00 – 06:00
This is BBC Scotland
Highlights from the BBC Scotland channel.
6h 06:00 – 12:00
This is BBC Scotland
Highlights from the BBC Scotland channel.
6h 12:00 – 18:00
This is BBC Scotland
Highlights from the BBC Scotland channel.
1h 18:00 – 19:00
Reporting Scotland
More from the day’s top stories and communities across Scotland.
30 min 19:00 – 19:30
The Harbour
Aberdeen Harbour on the north east coast of Scotland, is one of Britain's oldest businesses and one of Europe's most modern ports. It is the heartbeat of the offshore oil and gas industry. Every year, more than eight thousand boats pass through the harbour waters, helped by the hidden world of the men and women who keep it running 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. This is their story. In this first programme of the series, the Harbour's best known barmaid, Val Morrison of the Crown & Anchor, is getting ready for a Halloween party in the pub. We meet the Harbour boatmen, a small close knit team of men who between them must ensure every boat is safely docked. And we're aboard the massive Bibby Sapphire as she heads out to sea, where saturation diver Terry Dearlove faces a tricky pipeline installation. When you're working 185 metres beneath the waves and living in a tiny pressurised chamber, it's the little things that mean a lot.
30 min 19:30 – 20:00
Island Crossings
Dry dock delays and breakdowns cause chaos across the network, triggering a crisis meeting at HQ. On Islay whisky freight, tourists and locals vie for space on the ferry.
1h 20:00 – 21:00
The Hunt for Bible John
Two-part documentary exploring the 1968 case in which three women were killed after a night of dancing, triggering Scotland’s largest manhunt. The suspect’s now-infamous moniker, Bible John, came after a key witness described a man who picked up women, yet quoted extensively from the Old Testament and frowned on adultery. Despite one of the biggest manhunts in Scottish history, these brutal killings remain unsolved more than 50 years on. The first part of this two-part documentary begins in 1968 Glasgow. Far from the Swinging Sixties of London, Glasgow was in a state of disarray, with appalling living conditions in much of the city and many of the tenement slums being torn down. Life was hard, but Glaswegians had a lifeline in the form of the dance halls. Glasgow was known for being ‘dancing daft’ and boasted many of the country’s top dance halls. But given the city's numerous gangs and hard-drinking reputation, there was always a level of violence simmering beneath the surface. Featuring testimony from some of the detectives and reporters who worked on and covered the case.
1h 21:00 – 22:00
The Hunt for Bible John
Second of a two-part documentary exploring the 1968 case in which three women were killed after a night of dancing, triggering Scotland’s largest manhunt. In November 1969, Helen Puttock was found dead after she went out dancing at the Barrowland Ballroom with her sister. She was the third woman to have been murdered in similar circumstances, and Glasgow detectives now feared that they were dealing with a serial killer. Journalist Magnus Linklater recounts the interview he conducted with Helen’s sister Jeannie Williams, who was with her the night she was killed. Jeannie left Helen in a taxi with a man named John, who they had met at the Barrowland earlier that night. Jeannie’s testimony about the mysterious red-haired, smart-suited man with crooked teeth who quoted from the Bible would form the basis of the biggest manhunt Scotland had ever seen. This is the story of that incredible and groundbreaking investigation, and the extraordinary effort made by the police, led by DSI Joe Beattie, to try and find the killer.
1h 22:00 – 23:00