Restless Nation

{{Short description|Television series}}

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{{Infobox television

| channel = BBC Scotland

| first_aired = {{Start date|1991}}

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Restless Nation was a BBC Scotland television series, first shown in 1991, prior to the UK general election in 1992, and updated in 1996, prior to the 1997 general election. It spawned a book by Alan Clements, Kenny Farquharson and Kirsty Wark, in collaboration with Scotland on Sunday, published in 1996.

An analysis of the history of the movement for Scottish self-government, the TV series and the book were based on political interviews and archive material of political events since 1945.{{cite book|last=Clements|first=Alan|author2=Farquharson, Kenny|author3=Wark, Kirsty|author4=BBC Scotland|title=Restless nation: accompanies the BBC Scotland television series|publisher=Mainstream|year=1996|pages=[https://archive.org/details/restlessnationac0000clem/page/138 138]|isbn=978-1-85158-884-8|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/restlessnationac0000clem/page/138}}

The title of the series was a play on the name of the 1985 film Restless Natives.