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Cook and artist Heather Dewar explores Hebridean communities

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Eileanan Fraoich: Series 2: Episode 1: Staffin/Stafainn

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Cook and artist Heather Dewar explores Hebridean communities. In this first episode of the series, Heather's travels take her to the district of Staffin, in Skye.

In this, the second series of 'Eileanan Fraoich', Islay-born Heather Dewar leaves the familiarity of home to embark on her own personal island odyssey. She visits Colonsay, Mull, North Uist and Eriskay and explores the communities of Staffin in Skye and South Lochs in Lewis.

In this programme Heather explores the beautiful district of Staffin, an area famed for its striking geology. She takes a trip down to the beach where dinosaur footprints have been discovered and visits the site of an old diatomite quarry.

Heather calls in on a local crofter who shows off his impressive collection of vintage tractors and meet the last farmer in Britain to swim his cattle to their winter grazing on Staffin Island. She talks to the granddaughter of Norman "Parnell" Stewart, the Valtos crofter who spearheaded a movement against the unfair restrictions placed upon the area's crofters by the landlord.

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