BBC Scotland TV Guide — Monday, 20 July 2026

It's shearing time for the Imries, but their minds are on their next big event - a family music festival. They need this event to make a profit and are relying on last-minute ticket sales on the day. In Dumfries and Galloway, after the shock of losing 300 acres of prime grazing, Nick's neighbour offers to lease him some land, giving him an idea for a new business venture. On Papa Westray it's shearing time and another first for Paul. He's been on a shearing course and is tackling the job himself. The whole family takes part in Papay Fun Weekend, a highlight of the island community's calendar

Ruth Vichos is in her vertical garden where she has strawberries, blossoms and various climbing varieties all demonstrating what you can be produced with stacking systems and plants that will follow vertical surfaces. Brian Cunningham reviews the wild flower beds he sowed in April and which will become a great resource for pollinators and the rest of the garden's ecosystem

Stevie and Pete of the Special Operations Response Team join the other emergency services to help a man suffering a mental-health crisis who is threatening to harm himself in a public place. Dunoon-based paramedic Ben responds to a potentially life-threatening emergency in the shape of a man who has blood a clot in his lungs