The Dirt

Hollywood arrives en force to Quincy, the small town where the secret Crown Cola billionaires live. They want to film about the billionaires and how they made their fortunes.. Summer Jenkins, who was the town pariah, joins forces with the scout, Ben, and finds filming locations, extras, liasons with the town officials and house owners, etc. When Cole Masten arrives, they hate each other, but sparks fly. Cole is running from a nasty divorce, yet is captivated by Summer. Summer is dying to leave town to get away from the gossip. This is a great story about Southern customs, a Southern girl, and a Hollywood star who finds his lady.

Fifteen-year-old Murdo and his father, Tom, journey from Scotland to north Alabama to visit their America/Scots relatives after the death of his mother. Murdo is an accordion player but has not played since his mother passed. When he meets fellow accordionist Queen Monzee-ay she rekindles his interest in music and invites him to play a gig with her. The music becomes a wedge which drives itself between him and his father.

Beginning with the 1929 stock market collapse, The 1930s looks at the creation of FDR's Tree Army; construction of one of the greatest engineering projects of the modern era; the impact of the drought that transformed the plains; and an unlikely hero that gave downtrodden Americans hope. This collection of films examines America's response to the unprecedented threats facing the nation during one of history's most tumultuous decades.

Jean Muir stars as Jen Shaw, daughter of dirt-poor farmers Mark and Min Shaw (David Landau, Dorothy Appleby). Jen's parents have an abiding distrust for their new neighbors, the Jankowskis – not only because they're first-generation Poles, but also because they used to live in faraway Boston.

After their parents die, sisters Kath (Demelza Randall) and Francine (Rebecca Palmer) continue to labor on the family farm. The work is difficult and often unrewarding, but the pair manage to make a meager living off the land. But that's all threatened when Kath's volatile boyfriend, Buto (Shane Attwooll), asks her to marry him in a bid to control their birthright, and Francine embarks upon a dangerous love affair of her own with newcomer Lek.

The Adventure Show travels to the Isle of Arran for a bike race with a difference - the Grinduro. With four intense timed sections over road, gravel and dirt, the spectacular 83-kilometre course has attracted people from across the world. This is an event designed for all-round bike enthusiasts determined to have a unique experience. Also in the programme, a walking group from Glasgow show that regardless off, Scotland's mountains, glens and forests make for a perfect day out. Plus the brand new challenge of loch bagging, and proof that the demanding sport of orienteering is accessible to people of all abilities.

John James is a writer; his wife has left him. He moves with his middle-school aged daughter and young son to an isolated house off a dirt road in South Carolina.