An Taistealaiche/The Far Traveller

BBC Alba

9:00 PM to 10:00 PM

Wednesday 21 May

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Some 500 years before Columbus, the granddaughter of a slave in Scotland crossed the Atlantic eight times. She gave birth to the first European child in North America, and even made a pilgrimage to the Vatican. This documentary retraces Gudrid Thorbjarnardottir's brave steps from Greenland to Newfoundland and beyond