History Zone - Best of 2009

RUNNING ORDER Timings are approximate and given in hours and minutes from the start of the Zone. 00:01 Burns Poem: The Banks O' Doon, read by Maureen Beattie. 00:03 Muriel Gray walks In the Footsteps of Sir Hugh Munro. 00:32 Neil Oliver presents Walking Through History in Dunkeld. 01:00 Billy Kay presents Kings of the Road, the men who built the M8 motorway. 01:29 Burns Poem: The Tree Of Liberty, read by Robbie Coltrane. 01:33 European Breaking News with Colin Blane and Peter Miller. 02:02 The former Bishop of Edinburgh Richard Holloway walks In the Footsteps of Alexander Peden. 02:31 A House with A Past with Fiona Watson and Dr Bruce Durie. 02:58 Burns Poem: Ye Jacobites By Name, read by David Rintoul. 03:00 Stark Talk with Brian Whittingham. 03:28 There Shall Be A Scottish Parliament. 03:57 Billy Kay introduces The Dundee Ripper. 04:25 Burns Poem: Epistle to a Young Friend, read by Ralph Riach. 04:29 Former Scotland rugby internationalist John Beattie walks In the Footsteps of John Logie Baird. 04:58 Billy Kay presents The Fiery Cross, exploring the effects of the American Civil Rights Movement on the Scottish society of the 1960's and '70's. 05:27 Burns Poem: Farewell to the Banks of Ayr, read by Claire Grogan.