About this programme
7/8. Neil Oliver meets historian Collum MacNeil on the deserted island of Mingulay, and discovers why it was abandoned in 1912 after 2,000 years of habitation. Miranda Krestovnikoff learns the truth behind the classic Ealing comedy Whisky Galore! on Eriskay, and chemist Mike Bullivant tries to recreate a 19th-century experiment to turn peaty soil into oil.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Presenter
- Neil Oliver
- Presenter
- Miranda Krestovnikoff
- Presenter
- Mike Bullivant
Crew
- Executive Producer
- Gill Tierney
- Series Producer
- Steve Evanson
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