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Motoring across to River City

Piers Beckley | 17:25 UK time, Monday, 8 September 2008

Good news - we've managed to get ahold of a script for BBC Scotland's River City.

River City is a continuing drama set in Shieldinch, a fictional suburb of Glasgow, which airs every Tuesday at 8:00pm on BBC One Scotland. It's been running since 2002, and gets an average of half-a-million viewers each week.

Sadly it doesn't air south of the border, so unless you live in Scotland, you may have not seen it before - but thanks to the miracles of modern technology you can now watch it on the BBC's iPlayer.

Episode 622, written by Louise Ironside, is now available for your reading pleasure and education in our script archive.

As ever, you may need to download Acrobat Reader, as the script is in PDF format.

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  • 1. At 10:31am on 17 Jul 2008, Marc wrote:

    Can you give them a call Piers and find out if they are looking for writers?

    :)

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  • 2. At 02:52am on 19 Jul 2008, DavidLemon wrote:

    Cheers Piers- always good to see new scripts. And sorry to hear i_amMisterP is incapable of making a phone call.
    Hope you recover soon, Sir.

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  • 3. At 11:04am on 20 Jul 2008, Marc wrote:

    No, I did phone them from my sick bed but I could nae understand a word they said.

    Apparently the original name for the show was going to be Glasgowkissangel.

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  • 4. At 11:08am on 28 Jul 2008, killiebremner wrote:

    As someone living in Scotland all I can say is the show badly needs some decent writers.

    Up here it's a bit of a joke. You wouldn't dare ask anyone down the local, 'Hey, did you see River City' last night?'

    There are lots of talented writers in Scotland but opportunities outside River City are few. As, after 5 years or so on the go, it's still not deemed good enough for national transmission then I don't know how much longer it can run. It's had its chances and failed.

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  • 5. At 7:55pm on 08 Sep 2008, MarkoUK wrote:

    This is a repeat post.

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  • 6. At 08:56am on 10 Sep 2008, shugmeister wrote:

    Thanks MarkoUK - for a moment there I thought we had psychic commentators, responding to a post months before it was posted. I knew there were a lot of talented people on here but...wow.

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  • 7. At 4:41pm on 10 Sep 2008, Piers wrote:

    Theorizing that I could time travel within my own lifetime, I'm posting this from 1988 on a 300 baud modem.

    Sh.

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