18/01/2025
📢 𝐓𝐮𝐧𝐞 𝐈𝐧: 𝐓𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐧 𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐬! 📢
📅 When: Sunday 19 January at 10pm
📍 Where: BBC Two Northern Ireland / BBC iPlayer
A new two-part series for BBC iPlayer and BBC Two Northern Ireland enters a unique world of tartan and meets the team behind a kilt shop on Belfast’s Sandy Row.
Run by Grahame Harris and his mother, Kim, the shop has become a go-to destination for Ulster-Scots communities, for whom the wearing of tartan is an outward celebration of identity. Viewers will also meet Samir, a highly skilled tailor from Syria, and the team’s youngest member and kiltmaker-in-training, Claire.
This is a hectic year for the shop. Along with keeping their regular customers kitted out, the team prepares for an Ulster-Scots wedding, where different family tartans take pride of place in a ceremony to honour tradition and celebrate love. Grahame is also on hand to make the last minute uniform adjustments for the Campbell College Pipe Band as they prepare for Burns Night festivities.
In episode two, Grahame is tasked with helping the town of Donaghadee create its own unique tartan. Turning to the local primary school, he invites the children to get creative with their designs.
The shop also faces a unique challenge when a four-legged customer walks through the door. Will his outfit be ready in time for Belfast’s first ever Tartan Day Dander?
Tartan Tales is made for BBC Northern Ireland by Triplevision Productions, with support from the Northern Ireland Screen Ulster-Scots Broadcast Fund.
[Photo caption: Kiltmaking apprentice Claire, Grahame Harris and his mother Kim outside their kilt shop on Sandy Row in Belfast. Tartan Tales begins on BBC iPlayer and BBC Two Northern Ireland on Sunday 19 January at 10pm.]
Harris Kilt Company | Triplevision Productions | Northern Ireland Screen | BBC iPlayer | BBC Northern Ireland
