Radio

Â鶹Éç Radio Scotland

An industrious and creative year for Â鶹Éç Scotland's radio teams was rewarded with a slew of awards and nominations, including Gold and Bronze in the prestigious Sony Radio Academy Awards.

There were fresh offerings within the schedule, based on extensive audience research and analysis. New programming included , the panel game and, in spring 2010, the launch of . Ricky Ross hosted while Lorraine Kelly and Muriel Gray presented conversation series such as and .

In news, was at the forefront of Scotland's big stories in the past year. During the freezing weather of January 2010 we broadcast more than 100 extra local bulletins providing local information for our local audiences.

The month-long season of programmes – Under the Influence – examined Scotland's social and cultural relationship with alcohol and the drama focussed on the problems of a young girl dealing with alcoholic parents. Another season – – explored Scotland's links with the continent.

There was continuing support for live music in Scotland with coverage of , , , the Glasgow International Jazz Festival and the . In mid-summer, and took up residence in Edinburgh, offering coverage of the festivals there.

We continued to evolve our online offerings, with the introduction of the new and , with re-versioned archive content. Our remains the most popular of these online innovations.

Comedy also added sparkle to our festive schedule with the new series of Desperate Fishwives being stripped across one week in the run-up to Christmas.

Network Radio

Our production teams continue to provide programming across the UK radio networks. There was critical acclaim for Â鶹Éç Radio 4's Smiley plays, based on the work of John le Carre, as there was for , and .

Returning Â鶹Éç Radio 4 series included and . For Â鶹Éç Radio 3, we provided 17 concerts from the Edinburgh International Festival and, in March 2010, a number of programmes for Scotland Week.

Vic Galloway continued to present his weekly programme for Â鶹Éç Radio 1 listeners in Scotland.

Â鶹Éç Radio nan Gàidheal

This year saw the lunchtime gap bridged on Â鶹Éç Radio nan Gàidheal with the introduction of a new daily lunchtime topical programme in addition to the extended weekend schedule offered to the audience in autumn 2009. The re-launched drivetime radio show now has a Facebook presence, facilitating audience participation.

The Monday evening edition of the popular music strand was re-focused to target a young teen audience and now offers a platform for developing new presentation talent drawn from its audience Reflecting on Scotland's Year of Homecoming the radio series invited Scottish exiles to tell their stories of home.

January 2010 saw the launch of . The wealth of story, history and life experience contained in the Â鶹Éç archive of Gaelic song is the focus of a year-long tri-media initiative.