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29:48Now PlayingRobert Reid meets Ian Jack, a boy with a question-mark over him. He lives in the Highlands of Scotland - one-sixth of the area of the United Kingdom - but with less than one person to the square mile; and the population is dwindling. What are the prospects for Ian, and what are the plans for this beautiful, remote region?
Made by the BBC Film Unit, Scotland.
Presenter: Robert Reid
Camera: David Hanley
Music composed by: Thomas B. Wilson
Oboist: Margaret Moncrieff
Sound: Frank Dale, Charles Clark
Editor: Louis Miller
Producer: Archie P. Lee
Clip taken from Enquiry: The Wild North West, originally broadcast on BBC Television, 14 October, 1960.
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