First Aired: To Be Announced
Status: Ended
Genre: Documentary
Summary: BBC Scotland Investigates is a current affairs programme broadcast in Scotland by BBC Scotland. It is broadcast regularly on BBC One Scotland on weekday nights, currently with varying timeslots.
Previously known as Frontline Scotland, the programme usually features current issues affecting the Scottish people. Most recent examples include gang warfare in Glasgow, problems with the NHS, the likely effects of increased gambling in Scottish cities and North Sea oil.
BBC Scotland Investigates' reporters include Samantha Poling and Ross McWilliam.
In most cases the entire programme is devoted to one topic, and consists entirely of an in-depth documentary piece from a single reporter.
The programme is also available on the Internet from the BBC Scotland website, with episodes dating back to 2004 available to watch online.
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Season 2012
Episode 1: Lockerbie - The Lost Evidence
Air Date: February 27th, 2012
Summary: BBC Scotland Investigates features the first and only English interview with the dying Al-Megrahi who claims the full truth about Lockerbie has never been revealed. The investigation will uncover new evidence that has never been heard before and cast fresh doubts not only on Al-Megrahi's conviction but on whether Libya was involved at all.
Episode 2: The Money Farmers
Air Date: March 5th, 2012
Summary: Samantha Poling reveals how millions of pounds of public money are being paid out to businessmen and millionaire farmers in an abuse of the farming subsidy system. Investors tell us how they've been paid without having to do any farming at all. We meet the young farmers who have lost out as the big players prosper. And Samantha also sets out to see if she can take advantage of the subsidy system and become rich from the subsidy loophole.
Episode 3: Life in the Mortuary
Air Date: March 12nd, 2012
Summary: The BBC is granted extraordinary access to the lives of those who work in Edinburgh's City Mortuary, one of the largest and busiest in the country. With more than 2000 suspicious, sudden or unexplained deaths investigated by the Procurator Fiscal in the capital each year, it's the job of the forensic pathologist and the mortuary staff to establish how and why they died. Over several months the BBC filmed inside the mortuary to paint a moving portrait of how we die in 21st Century Scotland.
Episode 4: Getting Scotland to Work
Air Date: March 19th, 2012
Summary: Should we be looking to politicians to create jobs and get Scotland back to work? BBC Scotland's Business and Economy Editor, Douglas Fraser, has travelled around the country, speaking to some of those who are struggling to find jobs. He's also been meeting some of the companies who could be creating jobs. What kind of people are they looking for? And what kinds of skills do modern workers need?
Episode 5: Meet the Carers
Air Date: March 26th, 2012
Summary: BBC Scotland Investigates goes behind closed doors to find out what it's really like to be a carer. There are more than half a million people in Scotland looking after relatives with a disability. Reporter Fiona Walker enters the world of carers and spends time with two families who are struggling to carry on caring for a loved one. They describe a role that is virtually unpaid and often undervalued.
Episode 6: Suzanne Pilley - The Woman Who Vanished
Air Date: April 18th, 2012
Summary: BBC Scotland Investigates the story of the police investigation into the death of Suzanne Pilley who was murdered in May 2010 by her lover and work colleague but whose body was never recovered. Lisa Summers finds out how detectives used modern technology to recreate 48 hours in May to catch a killer and Suzanne's father, Rob Pilley, talks for the first time about not knowing where his daughter lies.
Episode 7: Megrahi - The Legacy of Lockerbie
Air Date: May 21st, 2012
Summary: On Sunday 20 May 2012 Abdelbaset al-Megrahi died of cancer aged 60. He is the only person to have been convicted for the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over the Scottish town of Lockerbie on 21 December 1988. The attack, which killed 270 people in the plane and on the ground, remains the deadliest terrorist incident ever to have taken place on British soil. But what is the legacy of the Lockerbie bombing and what effect will Megrahi's death now have?
Episode 8: Rangers - The Men Who Sold the Jerseys
Air Date: May 23rd, 2012
Summary: As this proud footballing giant stands on the brink of extinction, BBC Scotland Investigates the inside story of the scandal which brought Rangers FC to its knees. This is a programme based on dozens of secret emails, letters and documents which uncover the truth behind the tax scheme which threatens the club's very existence, and reveals what went on behind the scenes in the run up to Craig Whyte's infamous takeover.
Episode 9: Scotland's Forgotten War
Air Date: July 9th, 2012
Summary: 60 years after the Korean War, Jackie Bird investigates why one of the biggest conflicts of the 20th century has slipped from public memory. The war, in which thousands of young Scottish national servicemen fought, caused more British deaths than the Afghan, Iraq and Falklands wars combined. Jackie Bird discovers her own personal connection to the conflict and traces what happened to one of its forgotten victims. She also travels to Korea with some of the surviving Scottish veterans, on an emotional journey to reclaim their past. Although their numbers are dwindling with the passage of time, many of the Korean War veterans still have to come to terms with a war the rest of the country has largely forgotten.
Episode 10: Scotland's Silent Deaths
Air Date: July 19th, 2012
Summary: Fiona Walker meets the families who believe their relatives died crying out for help that never came. They share their harrowing stories of the impact suicide can have on those left behind. She examines new evidence about the extent of the problem and those working to save lives explain why gaps in the system mean some cries for help are going unheard.
Episode 11: Britain's Private War
Air Date: October 1st, 2012
Summary: BBC Scotland investigates the UK's armed private security industry. Reporter Samantha Poling hears how former servicemen are dying in Iraq and Afghanistan while on UK Government contracts paid for by the taxpayer with little public knowledge of their deaths.
Episode 12: Who Killed My Son?
Air Date: October 8th, 2012
Summary: Last October, Chris Lindsay, a 34-year-old father of three from Edinburgh, died while on a weekend trip with workmates to Spain.
Despite having sustained heavy injuries, the police never investigated whether he had been the victim of an attack. BBC Scotland Investigates follows Chris's father as he travels to Spain on a quest for justice.
Episode 13: Martha, Meals and Malawi
Air Date: October 15th, 2012
Summary: School dinners blogger Martha Payne has travelled to Malawi to see how the money she raised for charity is being spent. The nine-year-old became an internet sensation after Argyll and Bute Council banned her from posting photos of her school meals on her blog. The ban was later overturned after a storm of protest.
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