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1975: Surviving For Two Weeks on the Garvellachs | Nationwide | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive
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23:32Now PlayingContains scenes that some people may find upsetting.
Nationwide reporter James Hogg - that thoroughly urbane Londoner - is (voluntarily) dumped on the deserted Garvellach islands, off the west coast of Scotland, without food, shelter or company and instructed to survive off the land for two weeks.
These are his experiences.
Clip taken from Nationwide: The Adventures of Robinson Hogg, broadcast on BBC One, 9 August, 1977*.
*The Adventures of Robinson Hogg was complied using reports filmed and originally broadcast on Nationwide between the 5th and 14th September, 1975.
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