autobiography, The Real Gorbals Story: True Tales from Glasgow's Meanest Streets (Edinburgh 2007), describes growing up in the 1960s in Gorbals A scene in the promotional documentary short The Frasers' Return (1962), directed by Harvey Harrison, was shot in Gorbals council housing. John Buchan's novel Huntingtower (1922) was adapted in 1978 as a popular BBC TV series of the same name, featuring the Gorbals Die-Hards. The setting was changed from Carrick in southwest Scotland to Glasgow. The novel Swing Hammer Swing! (1992) by Jeff Torrington, decades in the writing, is set in the Gorbals. The character Kristine Kochanski in the British TV series Red Dwarf grew up there. (1997). The television special Blackadder's Christmas Carol refers to the Gorbals in a scene in which Prince Albert (played by Jim Broadbent) claims to be Glaswegian. The BBC documentary Poor Kids (2011) tells the story of a 10-year-old girl living in a mouldy, high-rise council flat in the Gorbals. The high rise is demolished during the filming of the documentary. Top Chef Season 2 winner Ilan Hall named his first restaurant "The Gorbals" (in Los Angeles) after his immigrant Russian-Jewish father's neighbourhood in Glasgow. In BBC comedy series The Thick of It, the main character Malcolm Tucker is called the "Gorbals Goebbels". See also Southern Necropolis, a burial ground in the Gorbals References External links Gorbals Heritage Environment Trust Gorbals history – Clyde Waterfront Heritage National Library of Scotland: SCOTTISH SCREEN ARCHIVE (archive films relating to the Gorbals) Gorbals - Origins and History Greater Gorbals profile at Understanding Glasgow The Gorbals: A New Glasgow Suburb at Pat's Guide to Glasgow West End Areas of Glasgow Housing estates in Glasgow Irish diaspora in Scotland Jews and Judaism in Scotland Burghs