Scotland The Promised Land

20161h

Three-part series exploring Scotland's social and political changes in the years following World War One

Seasons

3 Episodes • Premiered 2016

Still image for Scotland The Promised Land season 1 episode 1: The Birth of Modern Scotland

1. The Birth of Modern Scotland

The decade after the Great War would have a profound social and political impact on modern Scotland. Returning troops and exhausted industrial workers were promised a land fit for heroes, but instead found widespread poverty and political discontent.

Still image for Scotland The Promised Land season 1 episode 2: Homes for Highland Heroes

2. Homes for Highland Heroes

The second film in this series examines the grave problems facing Scotland's Highlands and Islands in the turbulent decade after the Great War.

Still image for Scotland The Promised Land season 1 episode 3: The Cultural Revolution

3. The Cultural Revolution

In the wake of the Great War, two visions of Scotland emerged - a nationalist cultural resurgence led by a band of writers, and a popular revival that appealed to the masses.

Cast

Photo of Ken Stott

Ken Stott

Narrator (Voice)

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