SynopsisA deeply romantic, warm and poignant story of love, triumph over adversity and the building of the great ocean liner, the Queen Mary, set in Clydebank and the West of Scotland during the Hungry Thirties. Times are hard, but a close-knit community always manages to find a way to laugh at its troubles. Robbie Baxter is the boy next door, the man Kate Cameron loves like a brother, the man who's always ready to give her a shoulder to cry on, but it's Jack Drummond who dazzles her. Kate meets him when she finally achieves her goal of attending classes at Glasgow School of Art in pursuit of her dreams of becoming an artist. When Jack Drummond shows his true colours, it's Robbie Kate turns to. Yet she cannot tell him the truth, which means that their growing happiness is a fragile flower, based on a secret which could blow their love and their family to pieces in an instant.

When the Clyde Ran Red paints a vivid picture of the heady days when revolution was in the air on Clydeside. Through the bitter strike at the Singer sewing machine plant in Clydebank in 1911, Bloody Friday in George Square in 1919, the General Strike of 1926 and on to the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s, the men and women of Glasgow, Clydebank and beyond fought for the right to work, the dignity of labour and a fairer society for everyone.They did so in a Glasgow where overcrowded tenements stood no distance from elegant tearooms, art galleries and glittering picture palaces. Red Clydeside was also home to Charles Rennie Mackintosh, the Glasgow Style and magnificent exhibitions showcasing the wonders of the age. Political idealism and artistic creativity were matched by industrial endeavour. The Clyde built many of the greatest ships that ever sailed the seas, as locomotives from Glasgow pulled trains on every continent on earth.When the Clyde Ran Red celebrates the...

SynopsisA story of Glasgow and Clydebank in the Second World War: love and friendship, tears and laughter, loss and redemption.Liz MacMillan has always wanted to be a nurse, but her domineering father won't hear of it. World War 2, however, makes nursing a patriotic duty. Liz finds herself working harder than she ever has before but also enjoying a freedom she's never known before. She becomes one of a close-knit group of trainee nurses and medical students at Glasgow's Western Infirmary. There's Adam Buchanan, who proves himself to be a good friend to Liz, and then there's Glasgow-Italian Mario Rossi, with his continental charm and his dazzling smile. When Mario is interned as an enemy alien, it's Adam that Liz turns to for support.With Adam, she experiences the terror of the Clydebank Blitz and the other tragedies of war. Then Adam takes himself off to war and Mario comes home. Will he and Liz pick up where they left off or is there a different decision to be made?