Scotland - GROUP THERAPY

Series

Series Name

Mining Review 20th Year

Issue

Issue No.

6

Date Released

Feb 1967

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1National Story - WATER - EVERYWHERE
2. 2County Durham - WARM PARTNERS
3. 3Scotland - GROUP THERAPY
4. 4Lancashire & Denbigshire - THE NORTH WEST

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 4

Summary

BFI synopsis: A Board typist who is a physiotherapist.
NCB Commentary - Edinburgh Castle is a symbol of Scotland, and the Scottish musical tradition is still alive in the bagpipes of Pipe Major George Stoddard.
Folk dancing is another Scottish tradition and 20 year old Joyce Trainer spends her spare time with a group entertaining young and old around the Edinburgh area - none older perhaps than Miss Annie Ferguson, getting set of her 100th birthday.
Charity shows take up much of Joyce’s spare time. Her working days are spent at the Coal Board’s Scottish Headquarters.
As she prepares for yet another engagement, Joyce can look back on quite a few years of dancing for charity - she started off when she was only 2 1/2.
Another member of the group is Jock Tait, who works at Easthouses Colliery. He’s on accordion, and joins Joyce at a visit to the children in Princess Margaret Rose Hospital.
Working and playing together for the entertainment of others, the group typifies yet another Scottish tradition - the charity of which Robert Burns so often wrote.

Keywords

Health and medicine; Business and commerce; Mining

Written sources

British Film Institute Databases   Used for synopsis
The National Archives COAL 32   /13 Scripts for Mining Review, 1960-1963

Credits:

Sponsor

National Coal Board

Production Co.

National Coal Board Film Unit