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Episode Title Airdate 1 The Last of the Free: 9 November 2008: At the dawn of the first millennium, there was no Scotland or England. In the first episode Oliver reveals the mystery of how the Gaelic Scottish Kingdom - Alba - was born, and why its role in one of the greatest battles ever fought on British soil defined the shape of Britain in the modern era.
Main article: BBC Scotland This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items. (February 2011) This is a list of television programmes that have been produced by or for BBC Scotland in the United Kingdom. A list of BBC programmes nationally can be found at List of television programmes broadcast by the BBC and the BBC's children's television programmes can be found at List of BBC ...
BBC Bitesize, [1] also abbreviated to Bitesize, is the BBC's free online study support resource for school-age pupils in the United Kingdom. It is designed to aid pupils in both schoolwork and, for older pupils, exams .
The Mother Tongue: Discusses the early stages of the English language, including Old English and Middle English. A Muse of Fire: Discusses the influence of William Shakespeare and the King James Bible on the English language as well as how Early Modern English took root in the American colonies and its influence on contemporary American English.
The Scots and French devastated the English; and [the English] were dispersed and died of hunger; and were compelled to eat human flesh: and to this end, to kill men, and to salt and dry them. [11] Malcolm died in one of these raids, in 1093. In the aftermath of his death, the Norman rulers of England began their interference in the Scottish ...
More Christian missionaries arrived from Rome and by the time of Bede who recorded there were five languages in the land; British (Welsh), Scottish (Irish), Pictish, Latin and English. [2] The village and people of Long Melford , in Suffolk , and their dig of nearly forty test pits, was featured during the first four episodes.
The Normans is a British television documentary series first aired on BBC Two from 4 to 18 August 2010. Over three episodes, it sees Professor Robert Bartlett's journey from Great Britain via Jerusalem to the Kingdom of Sicily to examine the expansion and ambition of the Normans between the 10th and 13th centuries.
BBC Scotland also produces over 20 hours of comedy programmers for radio and television, while features and documentaries is BBC Scotland's biggest output, with The Beechgrove Garden, Landward, Sport Monthly, The Adventure Show, The Mountain, BBC Scotland Investigates and many other covering all aspect of Scottish life. BBC Scotland output was ...