An intimate insight into the difficulties faced by a tight-knit family business in the Scottish Highlands. Jamie and his sister Jean run the roadside recovery company their parents began in 1973, rescuing stranded motorists from some of the wildest landscapes and challenging roads in Britain. During the busiest month of the winter, they strive day and night to rescue everything from sports cars to 42-ton trucks. It’s tough work, but they take great pride in seeing people safely on their way.
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Series 8: The Boy Who Can Fly
An exhilarating journey, featuring potentially dangerous activities that shouldn’t be attempted, where one very daring young Scotsman defies conventional expectations. And ...
14-11-2024
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Series 8: 9. Secrets Of The Lost Mines
Two unlikely friends explore the abandoned metal mines hidden in the hills of mid Wales.\n \nWales is known for its industrial past, with coal from the south and north east fuel ...
07-11-2024
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Series 8: 11. Pets Saving Lives
Someone is reported missing every 90 seconds in the UK, and across the country there are hundreds of volunteer search and rescue groups on hand to support the emergency services ...
31-10-2024
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Series 8: 12. The Lakes: Our Life On The Edge
Like most couples, Anna and Mat are just trying to figure life out. Unlike most couples, they’ve decided the best way to do this is a 100-mile climbing adventure in the La ...
24-10-2024
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Series 8: 8. The Secret Lives Of Lighthouse Keepers
A rare look into the working world of the teams who are responsible for keeping the lights on in 208 lighthouses round the coast of Scotland and the Isle of Man. \n\nEstablishe ...
17-10-2024
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Series 8: 7. The Omagh Hum
The story of a hum that has been keeping the people of Omagh awake for months. \n\nWith the town exhausted and exasperated, local journalist Emmet McElhatton wants to get to the ...
02-10-2024
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Series 8: 6. Our Yorkshire Stately Home
One of England's grandest stately homes, Wentworth Woodhouse, was going to rack and ruin when it was saved for local people in a former mining community. This inspiring document ...
24-09-2024
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Series 8: Homing Instinct
Noone quite understands exactly how a pigeon finds its way home, having been driven hundreds of miles in the back of a lorry to be released and race back to its loft. But acro ...
17-09-2024
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Series 8: 5. Dinohunters
Anyone can be a fossil hunter. Amateur enthusiasts and professional palaeontologists are joining forces, unearthing secrets from a time when dinosaurs walked the land. What they ...
16-09-2024
BBC 2
Series 8: 10. The Journey To Scotland's Remotest Pub
Documentary that tells the story of the inspiring, thriving, Scottish village of Inverie on the Knoydart peninsula. Twenty-five years ago, the local community pulled together to ...
11-09-2024
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Series 5: The Long Walk Home
The remarkable story of one man and his walk round the coast of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, including all the offshore islands, a journey, he reckons, of almost 20,000 m ...
12-10-2021
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Series 5: Boots And Beards
This Our Lives documentary tells the story of Boots and Beards, a Scots Asian-run hillwalking group helping people from ethnic minority backgrounds explore the great outdoors. W ...
26-10-2021
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Series 7: Our Sea Forest
The story of one of Britain’s great underwater forests and one man's quest to protect it.\n\nIn the 1950s, the Sussex coast was a treasure trove of adventure for freediver ...
08-09-2023
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Series 8: 3. The Seal Whisperer
Witness magical scenes in a documentary that explores Ben Burville’s extraordinary relationship with the seals of the Farne Islands. By day, this busy GP is hard at work s ...
06-09-2024
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Series 6: Who Needs Banksy
When a mural by the world’s best-known street artist, Banksy, appeared overnight in Port Talbot, it caused a sensation - but also a problem. Despite a local campaign, Seas ...
16-08-2022
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Series 5: The Merthyr Mermaid
The story of Cath Pendleton from Merthyr in south Wales. At the age of 47, she has decided to attempt to swim a mile in the icy waters of Antarctica. A health worker with no rea ...
10-08-2021
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Series 5: Speed Kids
Northern Ireland has produced some of the world’s most famous racers, who have inspired a new generation of boys and girls who are revving at the grid and hoping to follow ...
23-05-2022
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Series 7: One Man And His Island
Living on your own on an island is a fantasy that has come real for one man. After suffering some traumatic events in his life, ex-Royal Air Force aircraft engineer Simon Parker ...
30-08-2023
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Series 5: For Peat's Sake
From ancient rituals to its associations with whisky, peat continues to have an historical and cultural importance in the Scottish way of life, and nowhere more so than on the s ...
05-10-2021
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Series 7: My Life-saving Dog
At 20, Mei from Norfolk has already had a tough life. She spent much of her teens in care, suffering from anxiety, an eating disorder and self-harm. Enter Koda, Mei’s trai ...
16-08-2023
BBC 2