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1963: Fyfe Robertson's Hebridean Voyage | Tonight Special | BBC Archive
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38:38Now Playing"Britain's North-Western ouposts, with nothing between them and America but 2,000 miles of blue water."
Take a journey through the Inner and Outer Hebrides with Fyfe Robertson.
Tonight has chartered the St. Ebba, a nineteen-ton yacht, and sent Fyfe Robertson off to report from the beautiful, remote, and almost deserted islands beyond the West coast of Scotland. He voyages to Staffa, Islay, Barra, Eriskay, Vatersay.
Clip taken from Tonight Special: The Call of the Isles, originally broadcast on BBC Television, 11 May, 1963.
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