Grand Tours Of Scotland's Lochs

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Grand Tours Of Scotland's Lochs
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Paul explores the lochs of Skye. He hears tales of the singer Donovan and his dream of a hippy colony - thrills at the sound of the pipes, tries on a jacket fit for a king, and goes in search of a Viking ship canal.

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Paul begins his Grand Tour in the forgotten lands of Morvern. On the shores of Loch Aline, he sees the devil in a fossil, and then plunges deep underground to discover an unlikely connection between sand and WW2. Above Loch Arienas he hears the moving testimony of a family who were cleared from the land in the 19th century...
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In this programme Paul's loch-hopping journey starts on the west coast on a wild and windswept stretch of Loch Hourn. Travelling inland he reaches sheltered Loch Quoich, where he hears tales of Scotland's last outlaw. On the shores of Loch Lochy, he meets a couple who had a memorable encounter with a monster from the deep ...
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From a mythic past - when kelpies lurked in the lochs of the Trossachs - Paul travels through old Perthshire. He lends a hand bringing in the cattle and hears how Rob Roy MacGregor might not have been the romantic figure of popular fiction. Was he a hero or just a cattle thief? At Rob Roy's graveside, Paul meets a man who ...
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Leaving Kinlochleven, once known as the electric village because of its links to power-hungry aluminium smelting, Paul discovers a forgotten German PoW camp from WWI in the woods nearby. Taking an old military road out of the village, Paul climbs into the surrounding hills and arrives at the Blackwater dam - a colossal mem...
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This Grand Tour starts at Loch Glashan above Loch Fyne, where Paul travels back in time to learn how to paddle a coracle. At old castle Lachlan, he dabbles in Victorian virtual reality, courtesy of George Washington Wilson and his stereoscopic camera. At the open-air museum of Auchindrain Paul follows Queen Victoria on the...
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