Ray Jeffries

1970lerin Kuzey İskoçya’sında tutucu bir kasabada Bess, kendisinin bile hayal edemeyeceği bir güzellikte aşk yaşar. Kocasının bir an önce geri dönmesi için dua eden bu çocuksu kadın, ertesi gün Jan’ın iş kazası geçirdiği haberiyle sarsılır ve Tanrı isteğini yerine getirdiği için kendini suçlu bulur.

Bir petrol firmasının multimilyoner sahibi Happer (Burt Lancaster), Mac (Peter Riegert) adlı genci İskoçya’ya rafineri kurması amacıyla gönderir. Ancak bu rafineriyi kurabilmesi için küçük Ferness kasabasının tamamını almak zorundadır. İşin ilginç tarafı ise, köy sakinleri yaşadıkları yeri elden çıkarmaya dünden razıdır. Satır aralarında, dünyadaki her yerde ve tüm halklar üzerinde inisiyatif kullanabilme hakları olduğunu varsayan Amerikan davranış biçimini "ti"ye alan film, yönetmen Forsyth’e festivallarde pek çok ödül kazandırdı.

Set in 1943 in Scotland during World War II. Janie is a young housewife married to a man named Dougal, 15 years her senior. As part of a war rehabilitation program, Janie and Dougal welcome three Italian POWs to work on their farm. Soon, Janie falls in love with one of them...

Jake lives in the shadow of his dying grandfather, who was once the town's toughest hard man. Despite their hatred of each other, Jake's sole aim is to be as tough as the old man was. One day in Jake's life, as he drifts, drinks and fights, leads to a bleak realisation.

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.

The oil rigs provide rich pickings for those who work on them, but for wives isolated from husbands affluence is not enough.

Alan and Mary are pretty miserable together and split up. As a very presentable Glaswegian photographer, Alan soon has chances to find consolation elsewhere, but more and more thinks of Mary. She, however, seems a lot less keen to try again.

Produced for Scottish television, Venus Peter was financed by the Orkney Islands Council. The title character is transformed into a "sea child" when he is baptized with salt water. Though his family tries hard to accustom him to life on land, Peter (Gordon R. Strachan) yearns to go to sea -- or, at the very least, to escape his cloistered community. He finds a kindred spirit in Princess Paloma (Juliet Cadzow), the village "looney," who, alas, is eventually carted away to an institution. Briefly fascinated by poetry and music, thanks to his lovely teacher Miss Balsibie (Sinead Cusack), Peter is disillusioned when he finds his teacher in the arms of her lover (and out of her clothing). The final blow to Peter's idealism comes when his grandfather's ship is repossessed. Despite the bleakness of his surroundings and his seemingly dead-end existence, however, Peter never completely lets go of his dreams, and the film ends on a positive note.

In 1965, at the age of 25, Alan Ackland is sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a business associate. In 1971, Sylvia Barker, lonely and depressed after a failed marriage and with two young children to bring up alone, seeks a new direction in her life and applies to become a voluntary prison visitor. Several years later their paths cross.

Graeme has musical talent and is struggling to be allowed to express it. Lois is being pushed by her mother into solo parts in the girls' choir. Together they have to perform at a competitive concert while parents and supporters keep score.

Teenage Stookie Doyle navigates gang rivalries, family life, and social struggles in Glasgow's East End.

Shadow of the Stone was a 1987 UK children's TV drama series, starring Shirley Henderson. Written by Catherine Lucy Czerkawska, it dramatises a spiritual connection between a modern teenager and a 17th century girl named Mary Lamont who was put on trial for alleged witchcraft. Scenes were filmed in and around Gourock, Scotland.