Scotland's First Oil RushAugust 4, 2016

Scotland witnessed the world's first true 'oil rush', when inventor James 'Paraffin' Young first refined lighting fuel from a shale rock known as torbanite in 1851. There followed more than a century of the shale oil industry, which employed thousands and whose fortunes ebbed and flowed with industrialisation and two world wars.

Scotland's First Oil Rush was broadcast on BBC4 at Thursday 4 August 2016, 21:00.