Clifford Hanley
Writing
Known For

Documentary about shipbuilding on the Clyde. In 1960, Glasgow and other towns and ports on the River Clyde, on the west coast of Scotland, were still one of the world's great centres of shipbuilding. The film gives an idea of the business of building a ship - the largest moving thing made by man - from the naval architects who design her to the workmen, the shipbuilders in the yard, through to a ship's launching.
Seawards the Great Ships
The New Road is a five-part BBC Scotland historical drama broadcast on BBC-1 in April 1973. Adapted by Clifford Hanley from Neil Munro’s 1914 novel, the series follows the building of General Wade's military roads in the Scottish Highlands in 1733 and the clash between traditional Highland life and modernization.
The New Road
A dramatised account of the manufacture of a woollen garment.
The Great Mill Race

Sean Connery examines the gap and suspicion in the relationship between management and workers in industry, and shows how one Scottish shipyard is trying to change that and what could well be a blueprint for other companies to follow.