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Daily Record
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Record
New BBC Scotland documentary to tell personal stories of Lockerbie Air Disaster victims
Lockerbie: Our Story will be shown in early June - the day after the final episode of the Bombing of Pan Am 103 drama is broadcast. A new documentary will tell the personal stories of six victims of the Lockerbie Air Disaster. Lockerbie: Our Story will be shown on BBC Scotland in early June. It tells the stories of six people who were on board Pan Am 103 when it exploded above Lockerbie on December 21, 1988, killing all 259 passengers and crew and 11 people on the ground. It remains the biggest terrorist attack on British soil. The plane was on a flight from London to New York and the show will highlight the story of 25-year-old hairdresser Olive Gordon, 38-year-old Greek shipping titan Minas Kulukundis, 24-year-old banker Tim Burman and promising 19-year-old musician Helga Mosey. It will also look at a couple – 26-year-old pro golfer Billy McAllister and 28-year-old marketing executive Terri Saunders, who were heading to Christas for a romantic break. Billy's friend Stewart said: 'He genuinely hated flying so it was really ironic, and horrible, that he died the way he died and the circumstances.' The BBC is currently screening a six-part drama series about the Lockerbie Air Disaster – Bombing of Pan Am 103 – with new episodes of Sundays and Mondays. Lockerbie: Our Story – which is a Two Rivers Media production – will be shown on BBC Scotland at 9pm on June 3, the day after the drama's final episode is shown. It will also be available on iPlayer. Head of commissioning at BBC Scotland, Louise Thornton, said: 'The impact of the tragic events of the Lockerbie disaster in December 1988 continue to be felt today. It was an atrocity which shocked the world and changed lives forever. 'Our documentary will honour the memory of those lost, and tell the stories of those left behind, with the greatest of care.'
Daily Record
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Record
New drama series sharing untold story of Lockerbie Bombing investigation to premiere this month
The first episode of the Bombing of Pan Am 103 will be shown on BBC One on Sunday, May 18. A new drama series sharing the untold story of the investigation into the Lockerbie Air Disaster will be screened later this month. The first episode of the Bombing of Pan Am 103 will be shown on BBC One on Sunday, May 18. New episodes will premiere on Sundays and Mondays at 9pm for a three week period. The series is based on the 1988 tragedy, when Pan AM 103 blew up above Lockerbie on December 21 while on a flight from Heathrow to New York. A total of 270 people, including everyone on board, lost their lives – making it the worst ever terrorist attack on British soil. The show will follow the initial search for evidence in Scotland to the trial at Camp Zeist in 2000 and the upcoming new trial in the United States. It also aims to highlight the human impact on the investigators, the families and the Lockerbie community as it sought to rebuild and connect with bereaved families around the world. Made by World Productions with lead writer Jonathan Lee, stars include Sex Education actor Connor Swindells, Suits star Patrick J Adams, Ozark's Peter Mullan and Ray Donovan's Eddie Marsan. Former Libyan intelligence officer Abdelbaset al-Megrahi is so far the only man convicted in relation to the bombing. He was found guilty of 270 counts of murder by a panel of three Scottish judges sitting at a special court at The Hague in the Netherlands in 2001. He was sent to prison in Scotland, but was controversially granted compassionate release in 2009 after being diagnosed with terminal cancer, returning home to Libya where he died in 2012. The trial of alleged bomb-maker Abu Agila Mohammad Mas'ud Kheir Al-Marimi was due to begin in the US capital of Washington in May, however, it has been delayed. The Libyan national denies making the device that caused the disaster. • The Bombing of Pan Am 103 is on BBC iPlayer and BBC One from 9pm on Sunday, May 18 and will be on Netflix globally at a later date.
