Dream Me Up Scotty!

Dream Me Up Scotty! 2013 Directed by John MacLaverty

A history of the Scottish accent on television and film.

Alex Norton discovers how showbusiness has handled the portrayal of the Scottish accent. For over 100 years audiences have struggled to understand our braw brogue: silent Harry Lauder films attempted an accent in the captions, and in Hollywood's golden era , everyone wanted to paint their tonsils tartan- but as examples from Katharine Hepburn, Orson Welles and Richard Chamberlain show, they couldnae. Then Disney made Brave and proved that it disnae have to be all bad!

Countries United Kingdom , USA

Production Country United Kingdom

Language English

Gnere Documentary

Production Companies BBC Scotland , Hopscotch Films

Release Date 23 December 2013

59 mins