The 5 movies
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Local Hero (1983)segment
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Gregory's Girl (1980)segment
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That Sinking Feeling (1980)segment
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Limbo (2020)segment
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Show notes
30 years after Mel Gibson's Braveheart cloaked Hollywood in fake tartan, Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode take the high roads and the low roads to look for the real Scotland on screen. Ellen talks with Tayside journalist Kayleigh Donaldson about the trouble with Braveheart, why veteran Scottish director Bill Forsyth's hyper local comedy dramas Local Hero, Gregory's Girl, and That Sinking Feeling have such international appeal, and why movies such as Ben Sharrock's Limbo tell a different kind of story about Scotland. Comedian and writer Frankie Boyle tells Ellen why Gregory's Girl is one of...
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