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Peregrination
In 1773 Dr Johnson, accompanied by his faithful biographer James Bos well, embarked on a 'wild peregrination' to the Inner Hebrides.
If I should tell a tea-table in London that I have crossed the Atlantick in an open boat, how they'd shudder and what a fool they'd think me to expose myself to such danger.
Alan Hamilton , in conversation with the inhabitants of Coll, Iona, Raasay and Skye. discovers some of the changing-and eternal - aspects of life in the islands. with Anthony Newlands as Dr Johnson and Bill Paterson as James Boswell
Producer SIMON ELMES

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James Bos
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Alan Hamilton
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Anthony Newlands
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Bill Paterson
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James Boswell
Producer:
Simon Elmes
Source: Radio Times

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