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Nicholas Crane celebrates the forgotten world of the town.

Nicholas Crane celebrates the forgotten world of the town, smaller than a city, more intimate, more surprising.

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TOWN with Nicholas Crane: Series 2

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TOWN with Nicholas Crane: Series 2: Episode 1: Oban

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Nicholas Crane discovers the treasures of Oban on the west coast of Scotland.

Series celebrating the forgotten world of the town. Nicholas Crane looks behind the transit-lounge image of Oban to find a town with a dramatic past and inspiring scenery.

More intimate than a city, towns are where we first learned to be urban. Harbour towns, market towns, island towns, industrial towns: collectively they bind our land together.

Gateway to the spectacular beauty of the Western Isles, the port of Oban is a major rail terminal and ferry port, but is it anything more? Geographer and adventurer Nicholas Crane looks behind the transit-lounge image to find a town with a dramatic past, including a surprising role in the Cold War of the 1960s and a world of adrenalin-fuelled adventure, great seafood, and inspiring scenery.

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