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Presenting the islands as described by a native islander more than 250 years ago, and by Johnson and Boswell in. their Journals seventy years later
Next week Her Majesty the Queen and H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh will visit the Western Isles of Scotland. Earlier travellers in these islands included Martin Martin , who saw the old way of life before the Jacobite rebellions; and Johnson and Boswell, who toured the Inner Hebrides in 1773. This programme contains some' of their comments on the islands Her Majesty is about to visit.

Contributors

Unknown:
Martin Martin
Samuel Johnson:
Gilbert Harding
James Boswell:
Duncan McLntyre
Martin Martin:
Robert Urquhart

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