Episode 130 - Ratcatcher (1999)

On this episode, we’re travelling to Glasgow in the 1970’s as we look at the directorial debut from Lynne Ramsay and essential Scottish viewing, Ratcatcher. 12-year-old James Gillespie lives on a Glasgow housing estate during the 1973 refuse collectors’ strike. After James’ friend falls into a canal and drowns, James becomes increasingly withdrawn and racked with guilt.

In the news we get our best leather waistcoats and chaps on to meet the most miserable landlord in Scotland, buy some finest Scottish tea from Mr. Tea, aka Tetley Tam, debate the past life of a flag bearing child in the American Civil War and chuckle at the latest Scottish words to be added to the Oxford English Dictionary.

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