by Gordon Mackay | Nov 24, 2020 | Music / Culture
28th November 2020 Daryl Short is Forvie Nature Reserve’s multi talented Warden . Daryl expresses his love for the great outdoors . Explains how in this pandemic, these wide open spaces are a great asset to us. He is also a very talented musician, playing the penny...
by Gordon Mackay | Nov 20, 2020 | Press Release
Cyril Craig on Charlottes Seat, situated at The Dandanells, a significant area of the village. By reporter Jill McWilliam Friday, 20th November 2020, 1:24 pm UpdatedFriday, 20th November 2020, 1:26 pm Doric Tv is about highlight ordinary people who do extraordinary...
by Gordon Mackay | Nov 15, 2020 | Doric Dracula
She searched, she walked, she photographed,, she wrote, she highlighted…………..she kept going in the midst of nearly 2 decades of depression and despair. This is the story of one women’s personal fight over her own demons. The aim of these...
by Gordon Mackay | Nov 15, 2020 | People / Culture
12th November 2020 Doric TV presents an exclusive interview with Scotland’s very own Kilted Chef, Craig Wilson. A great insight to his Scottish culinary skills. Craig talks exclusively to Doric TV, re his unique journey to share his passion and dream. Tucked away...
by Gordon Mackay | Nov 12, 2020 | Language / Culture
12th November 2020 Campbell Murray – The Doric Poet Fae The Toon! Collector of Doric Poems To watch the video, click the play button on the section below. Optimism for the future of the Doric Dialect! [Campbell Murray] Although a ‘Toon Loon’ I came...
by Gordon Mackay | Nov 10, 2020 | Doric Blog - Language and Culture, Doric Blog - People / Culture
I grew up in Buckie with an English mum and Scots dad, and consider myelf “bi-lingual”. As a student in St Andrews, I recall phoning my parents from the payphone in the corridor on my first night away from home and prattling away in my native dialect, much to the...
by Gordon Mackay | Nov 7, 2020 | Jill's Lockdown Videos, Press Release
This news article highlights Jill’s selection as a finalist in the 2020 annual BWS Award Ceremony. On the 6th November Jill McWilliam attended the Annual BWS Award Ceremony where she was proud to be one of the finalists in their Inspiring Women category in...
by Gordon Mackay | Nov 1, 2020 | Doric Blog - Language and Culture, Doric Blog - People / Culture
1st November 2020 If you want to share what we do with others, this is a great wee video to motivate them to join our Doric TN Community. To watch the video, click the play button on the section below. Join the Doric TV Community today We very much hope you will join...
by Gordon Mackay | Nov 1, 2020 | Press Release
Jill McWilliam’s Doric TV project has been nominated for the social impact category in the Business Women Scotland Awards. A CHAMPION of Doric language and culture has been shortlisted for a national prize. Filmmaker Jill McWilliam, who runs the Doric Future...
by Gordon Mackay | Oct 29, 2020 | Doric Blog - People / Culture
At present, Jill McWilliam, presently of Cruden Bay, has nurtured and created Dorictv which she runs from her studio in the village. It’s in its infancy, but already she has interviewed many local celebrities and was able to provide an hour long interview with...
by Gordon Mackay | Oct 29, 2020 | Doric Dracula
Compiled by ‘Jist a loon fae Aberdein’ from the Images, inspiration and insight passed onto him fae ‘Jist a Quine Fae Cruden Bay’ reflecting on Jill’s experience of her years of soul searching and finding a creative connection by...
by Gordon Mackay | Oct 24, 2020 | People / Culture
24th October 2020 Kenny King presenting the history of waves radio. A fascinating insight from Kenny’s recollection from the pirate radio days in the North Sea. Johnny Walker’s triumph in retaining Radio Caroline. To the beginning of Waves Radio in Peterhead . The...
by Gordon Mackay | Oct 20, 2020 | Doric Blog - People / Culture
I am Gordon Mackay, part of the Doric Future Team, and Kenny Davidson was a great friend of mine. He was a charismatic man, around 20 years my senior. We met first met when I moved to the North East in 1981, sadly Kenny passed away in 2011, but during these 30 years I...
by Gordon Mackay | Oct 10, 2020 | Language / Culture
10th October 2020 Doric TV Interviews Debbie Leslie, a sought after Doric poet, writer, author, after dinner speaker and business woman, check out Debbie’s great website to find all about this talented Doric quine deborahleslie.co.uk. Debbie also has a great...
by Gordon Mackay | Oct 3, 2020 | People / Culture
3rd October 2020 Doric TV takes an inside look at the work of Maggie’s Cancer Support, Centre in the heart of Aberdeen. Presenter Jill McWilliam shares a personal insight of the benefit that Maggie’s has been whilst supporting her partner who has a myeloma condition,...
by Gordon Mackay | Oct 1, 2020 | Doric Blog - Language and Culture, Doric Blog - Music / Culture
I wis born and broucht up in Tornaveen in rural Aiberdeenshie, wi parents fae Buchan wi i doric aye being spoken and encourged tae use it. Nooadays I sing sangs that tell i stories o i North East and beyond in Doric and Scots, It a vital pairt o the culture and...
by Gordon Mackay | Sep 23, 2020 | Language / Culture
22nd July 2020 David Wilkie who now lives in the Phillippines talks of his boyhood in Aberdein where he lived right in the heart of the city, a stones throw from the bustling fish markets and the ship building yards upon which Aberdeens fortunes were initially...
by Gordon Mackay | Sep 22, 2020 | Doric Blog - Language and Culture, Doric Blog - People / Culture
Doric belangs te you an me: it’s in the quait o the countryside an the steer o the toons; it’s in the land, the sky an the sea; it’s in the wealth o culture an heritage; it’s in the lives o oor ain folk, past an present, their sangs, stories, an their rich,...
by Gordon Mackay | Sep 21, 2020 | Doric Blog - Music / Culture
Back in 2006 a group of local North East musicians formed a band and called themselves Bratach Bana, a name suggested to them by the popular Scottish singer Fiona Kennedy, named after a song made famous by her late father Calum Kennedy many years before. So far so...
by Gordon Mackay | Sep 17, 2020 | People / Culture
Doric TV presenter Jill McWilliam interviews Ian Edward and John McLean of Port Erroll Harbour on the challenge to save the harbour for the future. Join the Doric TV Community today We very much hope you will join our Doric TV Community by clicking on the link below,...
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