Arriving on the Isle of Barra, Ben discovers how his own hand-knitted Gansey fisherman’s jumper is inspired by the hazardous life on these islands.\n\nWe find Ben aboard a fishing boat in a wild sea heading for the remote and deserted Mingulay – the Isle of Whispering Ghosts. He learns how the extremes of life here forced the community to abandon it.\n\nTravelling across a causeway, Ben reaches South Uist and joins Paul McCallum - the Singing Crofter - who composes Gaelic hymns, singing them as he works. He believes that faith, work and song all go together.\n\nJourneying north, Ben finds the island’s iconic 30ft Our Lady of the Isles statue, which overlooks a Nato missile base to remind the military that a greater power watches them.\n\nPrince Charles came to the Hebrides for a week in 1987 to escape media scrutiny. No-one leaked his presence to the press, and Ben drops in for morning tea with the prince’s host, 90-year-old Gloria MacKillop, to learn the art of keeping a secret.\n\nBen then camps down for the night on Hosta Beach to reflect on this stage of his pilgrimage and what he has gained from it.
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BBC 1
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Series 2: Episode 1
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BBC 1
Series 1: 3. Northern Outer Hebrides
Ben returns to Taransay, the island where, over 20 years ago, he took part in the TV show Castaway. He visits the stunning Luskentyre Beach on Harris and joins local community m ...
27-10-2024
BBC 1
Series 1: 2. Southern Outer Hebrides
Arriving on the Isle of Barra, Ben discovers how his own hand-knitted Gansey fisherman’s jumper is inspired by the hazardous life on these islands.\n\nWe find Ben aboard a ...
20-10-2024
BBC 1
Series 1: 4. Shetland
At the end of his spiritual journey across Scotland’s Sacred Isles, Ben Fogle visits six islands across Shetland.\n\nOn the beautiful and uninhabited St Ninian’s Isl ...
03-11-2024
BBC 1
Series 2: Episode 1
Setting off for Arran and Holy Isle, Ben sails from the busy port of Ardrossan on Scotland’s west coast and takes the short ferry trip across the Firth of Clyde to the bea ...
15-09-2024
BBC 1
Series 2: Episode 2
Ben takes a tiny passenger ferry from mainland Argyll down the length of Loch Sween to arrive on Islay.\n\nWhile the island is famed for its whisky - the island has more distill ...
22-09-2024
BBC 1
Series 1: 1. Inner Hebrides
Ben Fogle explores the ancient sea roads of the Inner Hebrides, with their evocative connections to 6th-century Christian missionaries.\n\nOn Tiree, Ben explores 1,300-year-old ...
13-10-2024
BBC 1
Series 2: Episode 3
Crossing the infamously wild Pentland Firth in blessedly calm conditions, Ben Fogle heads for the Orkney Isles.\n\nOrkney has seen a diverse range of faiths for over 5,000 years ...
29-09-2024
BBC 1
Series 2: Episode 4
In the final leg of his journey and in a Sacred Islands first, Ben Fogle can drive to his destination rather than sail.\n\nThe Skye Bridge opened in 1995 and has seen tourist nu ...
06-10-2024
BBC 1