Movie: Stirling Kaleidoscope

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    Shona Tomson brings back her sell-out archive film programme commissioned for the very first Central Scotland Documentary Festival in 2017. Watch as she digs deeper to look how times have changed, or how they might not have changed at all...

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    2021-10-29

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