Darren McGarvey's Scotland - Season 1

Darren McGarvey's Scotland - Season 1

Season 1

Network
Episodes6
DatesSep 3, 2019 - Oct 8, 2019

Episodes

Dundee - Drug Death Capital
Season 1Episode 130 min

Dundee - Drug Death Capital

In 2018 Dundee was the drug death capital of Europe - Darren McGarvey goes behind the headlines to find out why. Meeting those caught up in the problem, he discovers an unexpected reason.

Sep 3, 2019
Edinburgh - Crime
Season 1Episode 230 min

Edinburgh - Crime

In Edinburgh Darren examines the link between poverty and crime: how does it impact kids and their future? But soon Darren discovers a hidden problem: wealth.

Sep 10, 2019
West Dunbartonshire - Worst Place to Be a Woman
Season 1Episode 330 min

West Dunbartonshire - Worst Place to Be a Woman

West Dunbartonshire is the worst place in Scotland to be a woman, yet the bordering council is the best place to be a woman in the whole of the UK - Darren wants to find out why.

Sep 17, 2019
Glasgow - Dying Young
Season 1Episode 430 min

Glasgow - Dying Young

In Scotland's largest city one in four men die younger than anywhere else in the UK - it's called 'the Glasgow effect'. Darren goes behind the headline to discover hidden reasons.

Sep 24, 2019
Borders - Rural Poverty and Mental Health
Season 1Episode 530 min

Borders - Rural Poverty and Mental Health

In this fifth episode, Darren McGarvey travels to the Borders. The terrain may not be familiar to him but the issues are.

It is a large area stretching from south of Lothian to north of the English border, with rolling hills and farmland, but as Darren observes: "You could be forgiven, when immersed in such idyllic scenery like this, for thinking that poverty is not an issue here in the Borders. It actually is, it's just that it isn't visible in the same way as some of Scotland's urban areas."

Along with poverty, there is an issue with mental health problems, and Darren meets a range of people to understand how this impacts in rural areas.

Oct 1, 2019
Aberdeen - Poverty at Home
Season 1Episode 630 min

Aberdeen - Poverty at Home

Aberdeen and the sharp contrast between its rich and poor - and the resulting homelessness - is the focus of the sixth and last destination in this six-part series.
Scotland's oil capital since the 1970s, the city has a swathe of high earners - but is it is now being hit hard, with more food banks than any other city.

Oct 8, 2019

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