| Series | Episode | Title | First Broadcast | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 01 | 19970516 | ||
| 01 | 02 | 19970523 | ||
| 01 | 03 | Boat People | 19970530 | By the 1840s, the victims of the mass evictions known as the Highland Clearances were travelling en masse to North America in the holds of decrepit cargo vessels. Novelist Herman Melville served on board one of those ships as a young sailor. `We had not been at sea one week, when to hold your head down the hatchway was like holding it down a suddenly opened cesspool.'. |
| 01 | 04 | The Energy Is Here | 19970606 | The 19th century settlers who moved to Cape Breton felt there was the same `energy in the ground' as they had known in Scotland. But the land was tough and by 1900 coal mines and steel manufacturing had replaced agriculture at the centre of the island's economy. Then came the industrial decline. |
| 01 | 05 LAST | Angus Macinnes's Barber Shop | 19970613 | Films like `Braveheart' and `Rob Roy' may have stimulated the interest of some young North Americans in their Scottish heritage, but how is Celtic culture to survive in the melting-pot communities of the US and Canada in the late 20th century? Will Angus MacInnes's barber shop still be found on Main Street twenty years from now? James Hunter looks to the future. |