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BBC Alba is a Scottish Gaelic-language free-to-air public broadcast television channel jointly owned by the BBC and MG Alba. The channel was launched on 19 September 2008 and is on-air for up to seven hours a day. The name Alba is the Scottish Gaelic name for Scotland. The station is unique in that it is the first channel to be delivered under a BBC license by a partnership and was also the first multi-genre channel to come entirely from Scotland with almost all of its programs made in Scotland.
For years The Netherlands is known to be the turn table in the world wide XTC production and trade. Apart from a lot of production also the export of the synthetic pills is organised from the Dutch low lands. Apart from the possibility to bring… Read More
The Libyan suspects of the terrorist bomb attack against an American Pan Am Flight 103 causing a huge plane crash in the Scottish village Lockerbie, are adjudged in a special court governed by Scots law in The Netherlands. After the sudden departure of Lord Hardie… Read More
At the moment that euthanasia is a political issue in Scotland, Professor of the Free Church College, Donald Maccloud visits The Netherlands to investigate the way the Dutch are working towards legalisation. The professor meets pro- and contra family doctors, the chairman of the ‘Life… Read More
What has Amsterdam to offer? Sex, drugs and flowers. The Red light district, diamonds, soft drugs, hiring bikes, flower market, art, canal biking, the Vondelpark, the organic markets, food & dance, ….. 24 hours in Amsterdam. BBC Scotland youth program. Activities: research, set up and… Read More
A crofter (traditional farmer) from Scotland is checking out how the Dutch farmers are going back to the basics. Collectively. So called multi-purpouse farming. A farmer familly keeps cows, produce organically and look after nature as well. In the summer the farm partly turns into… Read More
A reportage on the famous Dutch consensus decision-making ‘polder model’. The deliberation method wherein unions, employers and politicians are solving the economical problems together. Visiting the Dutch stock exchange and computer company Tulip, a talk with professor in Economy Eduard Bomhoff, and a portrait of… Read More
Two years ago a play group for children between two and four years old, in the Dutch city Leeuwarden, had difficulties to find a new location. Accidentally an old peoples home for lightly demented had space left. The two groups found each other. Now the… Read More
Reportage on German, Belgium and French drug tourism in Maastricht . A journey from coffeeshop to coffeeshop and the views of Maastricht the police, to politicians and specialists. How many foreigners visit the border city Maastricht to buy drugs? What do they think of the… Read More
In the Netherlands euthanasia is tolerated. The Dutch are preparing a euthanasia-law. How is euthanasia carried out in the Netherlands? A background reportage for the Scottish BBC program Eòrpa about the Dutch daily practice interviewing specialists, doctors, patients, the Minister of Justice and and both… Read More
A background reportage for the Scottish BBC program Eòrpa about the Dutch bulb- and flower-industry. Cultivation of bulbs in the countryside, research in the bulb-lab and the auction of millions of flowers and plants in the worlds largest commercial building. Activities: research, set-up & planning… Read More
A Scottish BBC reportage about a Scottish police officer that visits Amsterdam to check out the Dutch liberal soft drugs policy and system. The police officer meets a Dutch colleague, an owner of a coffeeshop and members of the ‘Union for Cannabis Retailers’. Activities: research,… Read More