With the eyes of the world on Glasgow, four Glaswegians celebrate their city. This week Chewin' the Fat star Karen Dunbar takes us on an alternative tour of Glasgow, carrying on with drag queens, wrestling with Glasgow's deadly diet, digging in an allotment, playing the numbers at bingo and speaking her mind on a football phone in. On the way she celebrates a city reborn and like all good nights out, it ends in a big singalong...
With the eyes of the world on Glasgow, four Glaswegians celebrate their city. This week Taggart star Alex Norton looks for the Glasgow he knew as a child in the 1950s. The tenements and closes he played in have been knocked down but their spirit lives on. Alex drops into the Citizen's Community Theatre, meets the woman who first put him on the stage, travels by tram, wears Lex Mclean's bunnet, wins a shoot out at the Grand Ole Opry and belts out one of the best Glasgow songs ever.
With the eyes of the world on Glasgow, four Glaswegians celebrate their city. This week, it's actor and comedian Sanjeev Kohli, Still Game's shopkeeper. Sanjeev's parents talk about their early days in Glasgow. Sanjeev goes back to school in his old blazer, reveals the secrets of customer satisfaction in corner shops, meets some new arrivals taking refuge from Syria and tries to work out if the put down is the basis for Glasgow humour.
With the eyes of the world on Glasgow, four Glaswegians celebrate their city. This week, actor and comedian Elaine C Smith, famous for playing Mary Doll in Rab C Nesbit, reveals a Glasgow made by strong women. She searches for the essence of Glasgow style, recalls the days when women weren't welcome in pubs, pinpoints the success of the hit play The Steamie, meets the Glasgow Girls and campaigns for a statue for rent strike leader Mary Barbour, along with public recognition for more of Glasgow's women pioneers.