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Hebrides: Islands on the Edge

Ewan McGregor

Nigel Pope

Hebrides - Islands on the Edge: Episode 4

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Hebrides - Islands on the Edge

BBC Scotland - Hebrides - Islands on the Edge, Episode 4

A spotlight on Hebridean residents who have learned to live with their wild neighbours.

Nature series focusing on the wildlife struggling to survive on the Hebrides. A spotlight on Hebridean residents who have learned to live side by side with their wild neighbours.

In the final programme of the landmark series, narrated by Ewan McGregor, we meet the people of the Hebrides and discover how they're learning to live side by side with their wild neighbours.

Ferryman Donnie MacDonald from Skye has discovered that business can prosper if your passengers can be treated to some on-board entertainment in the form of white-tailed eagles hunting alongside the boat. 

We also meet Andrew Abrahams, who's attempting to turn the Island of Colonsay into a nature reserve for bees, Alice Starmore - an artist inspired by the peatlands of Lewis, and Innes Henderson, the Coll fisherman who regularly has to steer his boat through a 100-strong group of basking sharks!

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A privileged view into the lives of a cast of Hebridean animals, narrated by Ewan McGregor

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