UTK 03 - Oh Sh*t, The Picts! (feat. Jillian Mannion)

Did the Picts have it all figured out? Where did Hadrian learn to build walls? When will Nat reference another Doctor Who episode? We're exploring all this and more (mostly more0 on this week's episode about The Picts, with special guest, award-winning screenwriter Jillian Mannion.

Rhynie - Archaeological Investigation (video)

Tribes of Scotland c. 150 per Ptolemy’s map

Artist’s depiction of St. Columba converting the Picts

Pictish bull carving

Pictish stone

Pictish warrior with drinking horn carving

Pictish depiction of battle of Dun Nechtain Kin Kenneth MacAlpin (Kenneth I)

Hadrian’s Wall Still from “Eaters Of Light” - Doctor Who episode Nat references

More on Jillian:

Jillian Mannion is a screenwriter with over 20 hours of broadcast television for BBC. She studied English and History at university before winning a Donald Dewar Arts Award for Creative Writing and going on to Vancouver Film School where she studied Writing for Film and TV, receiving awards in Academics, Professionalism and Script Analysis. She is currently a mentee on Women in Film and Television UK's 4 Nations Mentoring programm where she is being mentored by British screenwriter Sally Wainwright. Since her time at university she has continued to study and have a major interest in Scottish history.

Link to Jillian’s short film, Young Offender, on YouTube

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CREDITS:

Original Theme: Tyler Collins aka “Two Metre Man”Additional Music: Garreth SpinnOriginal Art: Sarah CruzProducer: Kathleen Mueller Mason

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