The BEST episodes directed by Craig Williams
#1 - Thatcher and the Scots
BBC Documentaries - Season 2009 - Episode 69
Is Margaret Thatcher the mother of the Scottish Parliament? BBC World Affairs Correspondent Allan Little looks back at the tumultuous Thatcher years, and assesses the effect they had on Scotland.
#2 - Who Needs Trident?
BBC Documentaries - Season 2011 - Episode 61
It's been 50 years since nuclear submarines first came to Scotland, and more than 40 since Britain's nuclear missile fleet was stationed on the Clyde lochs. But the Trident fleet is ageing, and the decision to start work on its replacement has been delayed until 2016. With public spending under unprecedented pressure, there's a very real debate over whether we can afford the 20 billion-pound bill. Partly filmed on board one of Britain's nuclear bomber submarines, 'Who Needs Trident?' asks whether a Cold War weapon, designed to deter the Soviet Union from attacking Britain and its NATO allies, is still relevant in the 21st century, and whether Britain, and Scotland, gain anything from it being replaced. Presented by Sally Magnusson.
#3 - Peter Higgs: Particle Man
BBC Documentaries - Season 2013 - Episode 75
Peter Higgs is the man behind one of the most remarkable scientific ideas of the past fifty years. He proposed the existence of a new particle, which would become known as the Higgs Boson. It took almost fifty years, and the construction of the world's largest machine, to prove his theory correct. Peter Higgs: Particle Man tells his story.
#4 - Iain Banks: Raw Spirit
BBC Documentaries - Season 2013 - Episode 121
Iain Banks, one of Scotland's most popular and critically acclaimed authors, died in June 2013. He had revealed in April that he had terminal cancer and subsequently gave a television interview in which he talked in depth to Kirsty Wark about his career, life and facing up to death.
#5 - Peter Higgs: Scotland's Nobel Winner
BBC Documentaries - Season 2013 - Episode 231
On December 10 2013, the Edinburgh-based Peter Higgs receives the Nobel Prize for Physics, 50 years after he predicted the existence of a sub-atomic particle which gives mass to all the matter in the universe. BBC Scotland's Science Correspondent Kenneth Macdonald tells the story of how this modest 84-year-old became a physics superstar, and speaks to those who have awarded the prize.