The War Next Door: Scotland and the Troubles

In this first episode of two, Scottish soldiers are deployed to Northern Ireland, an IRA unit is discovered in Glasgow and explosive material is smuggled to paramilitaries in Northern Ireland.

In the second of two episodes, the IRA attack Shetland, a major bombing campaign is planned from Glasgow, campaigners in Dumfries and Galloway protest against the manufacture of plastic bullets and Scottish soldiers reflect on their experience of the Warrenpoint bomb and the 1981 hunger strike.