This wonderful series had just been repeated on BBC4, and I'm taking
time out from watching the recordings because I just have to share my
joy at them.  At times hilarious and at others sad, it's a
dramatisation of childhood memories growing up on 1930s Harris, in the
Outer Hebrides.

In Gaelic with English subtitles, and with wonderful music by Donald
Shaw and Charles McKerron incorporating lots of traditional tunes.

If it comes around again, *HIGHLY* recommended.
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At 22:34:57 on Thu, 1 Oct 2009, Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> wrote 
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>This wonderful series had just been repeated on BBC4, and I'm taking
>time out from watching the recordings because I just have to share my
>joy at them.  At times hilarious and at others sad, it's a
>dramatisation of childhood memories growing up on 1930s Harris, in the
>Outer Hebrides.
>
>In Gaelic with English subtitles, and with wonderful music by Donald
>Shaw and Charles McKerron incorporating lots of traditional tunes.
>
>If it comes around again, *HIGHLY* recommended.

The book - in fact, a trilogy - is even better.  "Crowdie and Cream", 
"Crotal and White" and "The Corncrake and the Lysander", all in one 
volume.  See 
<http://www.amazon.co.uk/Crowdie-Cream-Stories-Finlay-Macdonald/dp/075151
3482>.  Wonderful, atmospheric, evocative.

And, ob-umf: there are some references to music!
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