Dùthchas (2022)

BBC Alba

6:00 PM to 7:30 PM

Saturday 23 August

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Documentary featuring previously unseen Kodachrome 8mm archive film of everyday life on the Isle of Berneray in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland through the 1960s and '70s, intercut with interviews with people from the island, including repeated iconic scenes of leaving the island, friends and relatives on the pier waving as they recede into the distance. A specially composed soundtrack by Donald Shaw draws on the richness of traditional Gaelic songs from Berneray and their compelling melodies as inspiration