Original drama: Behind Closed Doors

Clara Glynn's three part series Behind Closed Doors will be airng on BBC Radio4 next week. Lawyer, Rebecca Nyman takes on a sexual discrimination case in the first episode One of the Lads on Wednesday June 12th, 14:15. Tilting the Odds on Thursday 13th features a vet who might be struck off for doping a racehorse. And Safe House, Friday 15th, is a Closed Material Procedure terrorism case taking place partly in secret.

We are delighted that Tilting the Odds has been selected for Drama of the Week, and will be available to enjoy as a download.

Writer: Clara Glynn, Producer/ Director: David Neville

Starring Claire Rushbrook as Rebecca

Find more details and tune in here.

Coming soon: Enlighten Up!

We've teamed up with Burnistoun stars Robert Florence and Iain Connell to discover what philosophical thinking is all about. Enlighten Up takes some of the major ideas of the Scottish Enlightenment and explores them in comedy sketch form. From the big questions like 'how can we know the world exists?' to moral quandary 'why should I care about you?' Florence and Connell are here to give you the philosophical know-how with the stars of Scottish philosophy; David Hume, Thomas Reid and Adam Smith.

Here are some exclusive pics of the boys in action!

All photographs by Helen Jones

Enlighten Up is a commission for BBC Learning Scotland

Burns Night special 2013

Watching Ourselves celebrates 60 years of Robert Burns on the box this January 25th.The programme looks at the weird and wonderful ways television has celebrated the life and works of our most cherished national hero. From the kitsch to the clever, the far-out to the fabled, Burns has been a staple of Scottish television since the formative years. We see how different genres have embraced Burns. Variety, documentary, comedy, animation and live transmissions have all done their bit to keep the bard on the box, and in the brains of successive generations.

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Featuring interviews with John Cairney, Kirsteen McCue, Janice Forsyth, Andrew O'Hagan, William McIlvanney

Watching Ourselves returns over festive season

Greg Hemphill returns to celebrate more of Scottish television with a festive season of swashbuckling action, hogmanay celebrations and the best of the art and music scenes.

Starting on 23rd December with Swashbucklers, Greg looks into the well remembered and best forgotten from the BBC and STV archives. There's also plenty of stars to give their inside perspective, including Michael Gambon, Billy Connolly, Alex Norton, Iain Glen, Eileen McCallum and many more.

We hope you'll get yourself a mince pie and enjoy the show!

 

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Enquirer - Tonight!

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BBC Radio is celebrating 90 years of broadcasting this week, and we can't think of a better way to showcase the relevance of radio than exciting radio drama Enquirer! Based on the recent scandals that rocked the newspaper industry, Enquirer is based on real interviews with over 40 journalists. Get the insider's perspective, tune into Radio 4 at 9pm!

 

Edited and directed by Vicky Featherstone and John Tiffany, co-edited by Andrew O'Hagan, the Enquirer cast includes Maureen Beattie, John Bett, James Anthony Pearson, Gabriel Quigley and Billy Riddoch. Produced for Hopscotch Films by Clara Glynn and Carolynne Sinclair Kidd.

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New Radio4 Drama this week: Enquirer

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Blending fact, anecdote and passionate opinion, Enquirer is a rapid response to the unfolding events in the newspaper industry. It is based on interviews with over forty journalists and was first performed in June as a site-specific piece of theatre performed in an empty media office block in Glasgow. Hopscotch Films are proud to have produced Enquirer for Radio 4 and it will be aired on Friday 16th November at 9pm. The Telegraph have chosen it as their highlight of the week here.

Enquirer, BBC Radio 4, 16 November, 9pm

Enquirer is produced by Clara Glynn and Carolynne Sinclair Kidd in association with the London Review of Books and the National Theatre of Scotland. Edited and directed by Vicky Featherstone and John Tiffany, co-edited by Andrew O'Hagan, the Enquirer cast includes Maureen Beattie, John Bett, James Anthony Pearson, Gabriel Quigley and Billy Riddoch.

Scottish Shorts- New initiative announced

Hopscotch Films are going into partnership with Digicult to create a brand new talent initiative for Scottish based short filmmakers.

Over the next five months, Scottish Shorts will develop up to ten teams with short film proposals before commissioning five high quality live action and animated films early next year.

For guidlines and announcements check the Digicult and Hopscotch websites. Scottish Shorts 2012/2013 is due to launch on Monday 10th September.

The Story of Film wins award

Hopscotch is delighted by the news that The Story of Film has been awared the Stanley Kubrick prize at Traverse City Film Festival! Michael Moore who founded the festival now in its eighth year, said Mark Cousins' documentary was "one of the greatest" and one "we'll be watching all our lives."

Well done Mark!

The Story of Film DVD launch

The Story of Film has been released as a five disc set by Network and Mark's been busy touring the country to enthusiastic acclaim.

It's not just the cinema goers who have been salivating at taking The Story of Film home with them, below is a selection of recent mentions in the press:

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Time Out *****

Geniuenly democratic, honest in its broad perspective, and unusually technically aware, this is the definitive history of cinema's first century and a bit. - Andrew Lowry

Metro *****

Cousins delivers so much information and shows so many of the parallels and influences that pervade this self-referential art form that you're left itching to revisit the classics and discover the surprising gems he's highlighted.

Word Magazine

This Superb piece of work concludes that "the future of cinema is in provacative hands". And with brilliant, passionate archivists like Cousins working in the field, we may also surmise that the future of film criticism is too. - Ali Catterall