Here's our round-up of the best new Christmas romcoms, horrors, comedy dramas, tear-jerking animations and action thrillers to watch from the comfort of your home, via on-demand and streaming services.
A former psychiatric hospital turned into houses - let's not allow history to be lost It has been 20 years since the last patients departed Bangour Village Hospital.
My favourite place by Frank McElhinney, visual artist
Dubbed “Babylon”, its 291 acres are said to have contained a communal main building, dining hall, school, iron foundry, orchard and vegetable garden. It was home to close to 300 people, among their number blacksmiths, joiners, printers, painters, shoemakers, tailors and weavers.
Greg McHugh, star of Gary Tank Commander and Gregor Fisher, of Rab C Nesbitt fame, both play in a new Scottish comedy Only Child about a father and son living together. Here's Greg's guide to the show
Coldingham Bay, about 12 miles north of Berwick-upon-Tweed, is wild and beautiful and makes me feel so free
I have a birthday this weekend. It isn’t one that, in the grand scheme of things, is particularly noteworthy. Not like reaching the giddy heights of 18 or 21.
I have worked for four years making a documentary, so I know it well in terms of where the wildlife live, the birds nest and otters have their holts. I think that familiarity, when you get to know a specific place really well, is where proper magic and connection can come from.
Susan Swarbrick My Midlife Diary: The ‘Christmas creep’ isn’t to be scoffed at – it's actually good for us
Every day in my imagination, less frequently in person. Even if I don’t go physically, it’s still on my mind: I see it out my living room window, a low green curve in Clestrain Sound, the dark ramparts of Hoy rising behind it.
