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- A group of archaeologists have 3 days to discover historical artifacts in different sites around Britain.
- After digging up a bizarrely mutilated corpse on her land, physician Tora Hamilton uncovers a lethal connection to ancient pagan rituals.
- A way of life is dying on an Outer Hebridean island fishing port, but some of the inhabitants resist evacuating to the mainland.
- Rachael is called to travel home by ex-boyfriend Rafe, to a small bleak island in the North sea that she ran away from some 5 years ago to find her wayward mother. The pretense is that her father Jake is dying. Matt, a city boy, island hopping to take in the festival of fire, hears that she has been tricked; for Jake is not dying. Matt hangs around to ensure her safety. A love triangle forms, with Rachael, the least interested and keen to leave, but clues to her mothers whereabouts appear, as do her own problems which both Rafe and Matt wish to help with. Nothing is what it seems, and no one will be the same again, as the truth begins to surface in very dangerous circumstances. There will be a burning.
- A team of archeologists go on extreme expeditions to uncover mysteries of the past.
- Essentially a rerelease of Michael Powell's 'The Edge of the World' (1937), but with color book-ends in which director and actors revisit the island of Foula forty years later and talk about their experiences.
- During World War II, a small group of Norwegian sailors take refugees from Norway to the Shetland Islands in small fishing boats, equipped only with low-caliber weapons to protect themselves from German airplanes and patrol boats.
- The Vikings were an ambitious, daring and frightening people who left an indelible mark on the British psyche. Yet archaeology has revealed very little about their time in Britain and even less about what happened to them afterwards. Archaeologist Julian Richards finds new evidence about what really happened during the dramatic period when Vikings roamed the seas around Britain. And in a ground-breaking genetics research project designed specially for the BBC series, internationally renowned geneticist, Professor David Goldstein, sets out to answer some of the most intriguing questions about the Vikings. Samples taken from around 2,000 people in Britain, Ireland, Scandinavia and Northern Europe have been processed and the results are revealed during the series.
- A day in the life of the passengers and crew of the MV Hrossey, a Scottish ferry making the 14-hour trip from Aberdeen to Shetland.
- Documentary about the fishing trawler, "Isabella Grieg". We follow her from her base in Granton Harbour, in Edinburgh, right up the east coast of Edinburgh, up to the fishing grounds between Shetland and Norway.
- The changing face of life in the Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland islands of Scotland.
- A celebration and exploration of the people and communities conserving and restoring Britain's natural habitats and the wildlife that inhabit them - because if we step back and let nature take over, wonderful things can happen.
- Scotland, the small communities in the islands and highlands are disturbed by the heartbeat of today's industry; oil. Yesterday weavers are now welders of oil rigs, fisherman catch their fish between the pipelines. Will there be a future for them and their children in the land of tales, whiskey and bagpipes?
- A musical odyssey of two haunted souls searching for re-connection set against Shetland's breathtaking wild and ancient landscape. Soundtracked and performed by Skylark and the Scorpion (aka Nick J. Webb and Petra Jean Phillipson).
- Versatile singer/organist John Shuttleworth sets out to test the theory that people are friendlier the further north you travel.
- The farming traditions of the Shetland Islands.
- In 1942 the SS Elysia was struck by a torpedo and lost. Back in Shetland, Grace Smith was informed that her husband Cecil had been lost at sea. Against the odds he had in fact been rescued and would make the long journey home for an emotional reunion on the shore.
- The Stone Age responds to T.S Eliot award winning poet Jen Hadfield's synthesis of human and non-human experience in her 2020 collection, of the same title.
- A film shoot, two individuals, one place. A suprasensory story that gravitates between domination and desire.