Fife town to feature in new a BBC documentary

A BBC Scotland programme - ‘Scotland From the Sky’ - is currently in production and documentary film producer Jon Morrice was in Glenrothes, complete with a film crew to interview some of the town’s leading figures.

A spokesman for BBC Scotland told the filming was part of three, one-hour programmes giving a historical look at Scotland and its towns and settlements from the air and exploring have they have evolved and developed.

“Scotland from the Sky is a working title for the mini series which we hope to have ready for broadcast by November or early in 2018.”

And first port-of-call for the film crew was the town’s Heritage Centre to interview the centre’s chairman, Linda Ballingall, about how the town was development and became one of Scotland’s foremost New Town’s in the second half of the twentieth century.

“It sounds like an extremely exciting and interesting series of programmes and to be having Glenrothes featured is great news for the town,” said Linda, who was an employee of Glenrothes Development Corporation in the halcyon days of the towns growth.

And the filming has not finished yet as the production team will be back in Glenrothes later this month to send up a camera drone up to capture a birds-eye view of parts of the town.