In the Footsteps - Series One
Well known Scots go in search of their Scottish heroes
In the Footsteps - Series One - 02/10/2007
1/13. Mary Garden: Aberdonian opera singer Lisa Milne visits some of the places associated with Mary Garden, doyen of Opera Houses across in the first part of the 20th century.
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In the Footsteps - Series One - Episode 10
10/13. Robert Louis Stevenson: Louise Welsh explores the life and work of Robert Louis Stevenson, the celebrated Scottish essayist, poet and author.
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In the Footsteps - Series One - Episode 11
11/13. Alistair MacLean: Philip Kerr follows in the footsteps of Alistair MacLean, the man who inspired him to become a writer.
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In the Footsteps - Series One - Episode 12
12/13. Molly Weir: Well known Scots go in search of their Scottish heroes. Actress Una McLean charts the rise of Molly Weir, famed for her role as Hazel McWitch in Rentaghost.
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In the Footsteps - Series One - Episode 13
13/13. John Grierson: Well known Scots go in search of their Scottish heroes. Writer, film-maker and designer Murray Grigor explores the life and work of John Grierson CBE.
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In the Footsteps - Series One - Episode 2
2/13. Calgacus: Robbie the Pict goes in search of the Caledonian Warrior, the first inhabitant of this land to make it into the history books and the archetypal Scottish hero.
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In the Footsteps - Series One - Episode 3
3/13. Eric Liddell: How Gold Medal sprinter Allan Wells was inspired by an earlier Scottish Gold Medallist and subject of Chariots of Fire, Eric Liddell.
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In the Footsteps - Series One - Episode 4
4/13. Eduardo Paolozzi: Richard Demarco, artist and promoter of the visual and performing arts, explores the life and work of Scottish sculptor Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, CBE.
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In the Footsteps - Series One - Episode 5
5/13. Billy Mackenzie: Musician Davey Scott analyses the extraordinary voice of Billy Mackenzie, the maverick front man of eighties Dundee legends The Associates.
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In the Footsteps - Series One - Episode 6
6/13. DC Thompson: Journalist Roddy Forsyth goes back to Dundee in the footsteps of David Coupar Thomson, owner of the first newspaper he ever worked on.
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In the Footsteps - Series One - Episode 7
7/13. James Young Simpson: Ian Wilmut explores the life of physician James Young Simpson, examining the furore he created by using chloroform to ease labour pains.
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In the Footsteps - Series One - Episode 8
8/13. Lord Reith: In the wake of the recent troubles to hit the UK's leading broadcast networks, Jeremy Isaacs examines the contested legacy of the BBC's founder Lord Reith.
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In the Footsteps - Series One - Episode 9
9/13. Andrew Carnegie: Entrepreneur and philanthropist Sir Tom Hunter goes in search of the first and perhaps the greatest of all philanthropists, Andrew Carnegie.
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