Combining the role of artist and interviewer, Heather Dewar creates colour portraits of well-known Gaels – while teasing out of them every little detail of their life story!

In this programme, Heather is back on Islay in Kilchoman where she meets Morvern McPhee. Morvern was brought up on the island and now works there as a teacher. Her great-grandfather was Donald McPhee who, along with his brother John, saved several people from the Otranto after it was wrecked off the west coast of Islay in 1918.

Tha Fraoch Nic an Deòir a Ìle air ais air an sgrion le sreath ùr de “Dhealbhan Fraoich”. An dà chuid na tè-ealain agus na ceasnaiche, tha i a’dèanamh dealbhan dathte de Ghàidheil air a bheil sinn eòlach – agus a’tàladh asta iomadh sgeul mu eachdraidh am beatha.
Sa phrògram seo, tha Fraoch air ais ann an Ìle, aig Cill Chomain, far a bheil i a’tachairt air Morven Nic a’Phì. Chaidh Morven àrach air an eilean, agus tha i a-nist ag obair ann an Ile na tidsear. Choisinn a sinn-seanair Dòmhnall Mac a’Phì cliù, e fhèin agus a bhràthair Iain, nuair a shàbhail iad grunnd dhaoine far an t-soitheach HMS Otranto, a chaidh as an rathad air taobh siar Ìle ann an 1918.

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