Synopsis
Professor Iain Stewart explores the industrial history of coal production in Scotland.
- Programme: Making Scotland's Landscape
- Episode: The Climate
- Channel: BBC One
- Broadcast year: 2010
- Geography | Energy and Resources | Non-renewable and renewable energy | Non-renewable energy: fossil fuels
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