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1971: Gigha - the Island that Refused to Die | Classic Documentary | BBC Archive
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19:26Now Playing80 year-old Gaelic speaker Donald MacDonald takes us on a brief tour of his lifelong home, Gigha - a tiny island off the West coast of Scotland. He explains how Gigha has been able to fend off the threat of depopulation, which has afflicted so many other small Scottish islands, to become a place of beauty and prosperity.
Among the island's other residents are Sir James Horlick - son of the inventor of the malted drink that bears his name - and his wife Lady Horlick, who bought Gigha and Achamore House in 1944. Since then, Horlick has been cultivating stunning rhododendron gardens that have become a tourist attraction. Lady Horlick, meanwhile, has been modernising the island's dairy industry.
What does Donald make of all the changes he's experienced in his eight decades on the island?
Clip taken from Look Stranger, originally broadcast on BBC Two, 01 December, 1971.
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