The BBC Scotland Radio 4 daily drama serial ‘Kilbreck’ was broadcast from October 1981 to March 1984. Scottish radio`s first `soap`, ‘Kilbreck’ was an initiative of the BBC Scotland Education Department and the Scottish Health Education Group (SHEG), who put money into the programme with the aim of having health education messages unobtrusively woven into the drama. The soap was principally based in a community centre in the fictional central Scotland New Town of Kilbreck and in the home of the Guthrie family, in which the father had newly become unemployed.

Many of Scotland`s top writers, working in rota and usually producing 5 scripts apiece (i.e. one week’s broadcasts), contributed to the serial. Regular writers included Tom McGrath, Alan Spence, Catherine Lockerbie, Margaret Thomson Davis, Carl McDougall, Rona Munro, David Ian Neville and Carolyn S. Lincoln, the donor of this collection. All the scripts in Acc.13353 are by carolyn S. Lincoln, unless otherwise stated.