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Eriskay is a remote Gaelic-speaking island in the Scottish Hebrides - best known from 'The Eriskay Love Lilt.' But it has more romance: here on the white-sand beach Bonnie Prince Charlie set foot on Scottish soil, and here they romped through the real-life 'Whisky Galore' story. Duncan Campbell is back living on this barren and beautiful island with his wife and eight children. Like so many Eriskay boys he had to leave, for there was no work. Now, after half a lifetime away, he has returned to a different Eriskay - still romantic, but stirring with a new prosperity from the sea. (from Scotland)

"I fly because I enjoy it; it is freedom in the sky Teaching is jun; children are infinitely variable; full of possibilities - and they matter." The two worlds of Miss Frances MacRae, aerobatic ace and London schoolmistress This film looks at a woman who is equally at home taking classes in Highgate and weaving patterns in the sky over the Surrey countryside. The first woman to join the British team in the World Aerobatic Championships, Frances MacRae started flying ten years ago. On a demonstration flight, the pilot asked her to take the controls and she was immediately hooked. In eight years, she had mastered her little yellow and red biplane and was taking part in International Championships. She became a teacher just after the war after leaving the Civil Service; she quickly realised that it was what she wanted to do and 25 years later is assistant head of the same school in Highgate. (Patterns in the sky: page 8)

At least, whatever human beings feel about Skinningrove, North Yorkshire, there's no place like it for its 3,000 racing pigeons. Every Saturday throughout the summer they're transported to the South of England, or over the sea to France. But they fly straight back -and the fastest home means money. Skinningrove's pigeon passion is seen through the eyes of the Rawson family - Cecil, Jean, Ken, Louie, George, and grandfather Charles. Written and produced by David Bean

"The isolation the ancientness the changing light on hills and valleys. In this Celtic-Scandinavian kingdom time does not matter." In this programme Sir John Betjeman revisits Ellan Vannin (Isle of Man) which he has known and loved since student days, and finds that the magnetism of the past is still very much present.