Watch Border Life 2017

The second of two programmes looking back at some of the highlights from the 2017 series of Border Life, presented by Fiona Armstrong.

Border Life gets unavoidably festive this week, with a trip to a Christmas tree farm and a visit to a chocolate maker. And - looking ahead to New Year - Sandy McCracken finds out more about how Robert Burns wrote "Auld Lang Syne".

The first of two programmes looking back at some of the highlights from the 2017 series of Border Life, presented by Fiona Armstrong.

Lori Carnochan reports on a new rail link to Scotland's highest village. Sandy McCracken tells the story of a band of brothers from World War I: five of them signed up to fight, but only one returned home.

The latest episode of ITV border's Scottish political programme, Representing Border, looks at issues form Holyrood and Westminster that matter to the South of Scotland

Fiona Armstrong talks to Ron Wilson, one of the leading lights of farming in the Borders. They discuss how agriculture has changed in his lifetime, and what difference Brexit might make to farmers.

Fiona Armstrong visits a new archive in Dumfries which includes a collection of paintings and artefacts from the famous Crichton Asylum. Lori Carnochan helps the experts to check out a unique colony of bats which has been discovered in Galloway.

Lori Carnochan learns how Scottish tea producers have banded together to reach a worldwide market with their luxury teas. Sandy McCracken visits one of the country's oldest theatres to see the curtain come up on the panto season.

Lori Carnochan reports on a designer cider being produced in the south of Scotland - the latest kind of bourtique booze to hit the market. Sandy McCracken meets an artist who makes her artworks from animal skeletons and roadkill.

Sandy McCracken presents a special programme on the life of novelist John Buchan, the man who took the life and scenery of the Borders to the world through his books and his political career. His story is told with the help of two of his granddaughters, one of whom looks after the Buchan Museum and another who is writing a new biography of Buchan.