Speaking our Language
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Speaking our Language is a Scottish Gaelic learners' television programme that ran from 9 January 1993 to 22 November 1996. Running for 72 episodes through four series, the series was produced by Scottish Television and presented by Rhoda MacDonald, STV's then-head of Gaelic output. It was frequently repeated on TeleG and is now repeated on BBC Alba, and all four series have been released on DVD.[2]
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Speaking our Language | |
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Genre | Language Learning |
Written by | Dr. Richard Cox, Anne Lorne Gillies[1] |
Directed by | Anne Buckland / Ken MacGregor |
Presented by | Rhoda MacDonald |
Voices of | Iain MacRae |
Theme music composer | Phil Cunningham |
Opening theme | Performed by Wolfstone |
Original languages | English and Scottish Gaelic |
No. of seasons | 4 |
No. of episodes | 72 |
Production | |
Executive producer | Rhoda MacDonald |
Producers | Amanda Berry (Series 1 & 2) Anne Lorne Gillies (Series 3 & 4) Erina Rayner (Series 4) |
Production locations | Scotland, United Kingdom |
Editors | Andy Boyd, Pat Doherty |
Running time | 25 minutes |
Production company | Scottish Television |
Original release | |
Network | Scottish Television Grampian Television |
Release | 9 January 1993 (1993-01-09) ā 22 November 1996 (1996-11-22) |
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The series was based on Now You're Talking, a similar Welsh-language learners' series broadcast on S4C and developed by Acen, a resource service for Welsh learners, who acted as programme consultants for Speaking our Language.