Scotland: Contains Strong Language (2020)
Schooled in Fife, coming of age in a rock ’n’ roll band, then finding her forte was directing temperamental actors, Cora Bissett is no stranger to theatrical Scottish swearing. So who better to present a celebration of Caledonian cursing? This documentary sees Cora sing, swear and scrutinise why Scotland swears so well. Cora begins with the first hurdle – how does one discuss swear words on the BBC? Aunty Beeb is the institution that has been historically priggish about language - always bleeping words and apologising for those that slipped through. So Cora runs a list past BBC Scotland’s head of editorial standards to see what she can get away with.
- Date of release
- 2020-04-04
- TMDB
- 9.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 59m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- John MacLaverty
Casting
- Cora Bissett — Presenter
- Billy Connolly — Himself (archive footage)
- James Kelman — Himself (archive footage)
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