BBC Our Lives – Aberdeen Harbour (2021)
English | Size: 556 MB
Category: Documentary
Aberdeen Harbour is one of Britain’s oldest businesses and busiest ports. [Read more…]
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BBC Our Lives – Aberdeen Harbour (2021)
English | Size: 556 MB
Category: Documentary
Aberdeen Harbour is one of Britain’s oldest businesses and busiest ports. [Read more…]
BBC Our Lives – From Syria to Scotland (2019)
English | Size: 559 MB
Category: Tutorial
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Tells the story of the Syrian refugee families who, since December 2015, have made the small Scottish island of Bute their home. Bute’s newest residents have found sanctuary on this peaceful isle – a place of safety after the horrors of the Syrian war they have escaped. [Read more…]
BBC Our Lives – Orkney: When the Boat Comes In (2017)
English | Size: 525 MB
Category: Documentary
Orkney, the small island chain off the north-eastern tip of Scotland, is officially the UK’s cruise ship capital. In 2017, every cruise line in the world visited. On its busiest days, the capital of Kirkwall will see its population of 7000 almost double. As part of BBC1’s Our Lives, Orkney: When The Boat Comes In captures the stories of Orcadians whose lives are impacted by the onslaught of tourists. [Read more…]
BBC Our Lives – Our Island Home (2019)
English | Size: 508 MB
Category: Documentary
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Follows the Scharer family – Ned, Sophie, Rowan and Sam from Betws-y-Coed in the Snowdonia national park – who have beaten off competition from around the world to secure the job as the wardens of Bardsey Island. Bardsey is a remote yet idyllic island almost two miles from the coast of the Llyn peninsula in north west Wales. It’s the Scharers’ chance to escape the busy, tech-filled existence that so many of us lead and embrace the ‘simple life’ as the new custodians – managing, renovating, and caring for the island whilst hoping to become a closer family unit in the process. [Read more…]
BBC Our Lives – Highland Road Rescue (2020)
English | Size: 627 MB
Category: Documentary
Our Lives offers an intimate insight into the difficulties faced by a tight-knit family business in the Scottish Highlands. Jamie and his sister Jean run the roadside recovery company their parents began in 1973, rescuing stranded motorists from some of the wildest landscapes and challenging roads in Britain. During the busiest month of the winter, they strive day and night to rescue everything from sports cars to 42-ton trucks. It’s tough work, but they take great pride in seeing people safely on their way. [Read more…]
BBC Our Lives – Pink Dreams (2020)
English | Size: 510 MB
Category: Documentary
Fifty-seven-year-old grandmother Lorraine Colville came to singing late in life. But her tribute act to US megastar Pink, 20 years her junior, has set Lorraine free. [Read more…]
BBC Our Lives – Zoo Mum (2020)
English | Size: 622 MB
Category: Documentary
Whatever is happening in the outside world, life in Colchester zoo goes on. Curator Sarah Forsyth is heading into the busiest summer of her life keeping countless animals happy while four out of five of her keeping staff are furloughed. Sarah lives on site – the animals are her family – and they have never needed her more. This documentary follows Sarah for two animal-action-packed weeks, entirely inside the walls of one of Britain’s largest zoos as she works tirelessly to deal with the summer baby boom, animal emergencies and unique situations created by the absence of paying public. [Read more…]
BBC Our Lives – Shepherdess of Snowdonia (2018)
English | Size: 584 MB
Category: Documentary
In the shadow of Snowdon, 26-year-old Teleri Fielden is given an opportunity to fulfil her dream of becoming an upland hill farmer. She’s won a scholarship to run the beautiful National Trust farm, Llyndy Isaf near Beddgelert, for a year covering more than 600 acres of mostly mountainside stocked with sheep and cattle. [Read more…]
BBC Our Lives – Saving Our Ecovillage (2020)
English | Size: 650 MB
Category: Documentary
Off-grid with their own food, animals, power, water and waste disposal, a Welsh eco-community try to come up with a plan to save their homes and their future. [Read more…]
BBC Our Lives – Desperate to Drive (2019)
English | Size: 562 MB
Category: Documentary
In a quiet corner of Cardiff, a unique driving centre transforms lives every day. Here, higher-risk drivers, who through illness or accident have been stopped from driving, have the chance to prove they’re safe to be on the road. To lose the ability to drive is to lose independence, identity and sometimes livelihoods. Many drivers go to the centre with great hope of getting back behind the wheel. Others are reluctant, fearing they may be taken off the road forever. The driving assessors face huge dilemmas – they decide if people can have the freedom they desperately want but if they make the wrong decision, they could put the public at risk. [Read more…]