Episode 10

Presenter Donald Morrison takes a nostalgic look through the archive of the popular Gaelic current affairs series Cearcall. In the original series transmitted in the late 1970s and the 1980s, presenters Angela MacEachan, Murdo F Macleod and Martin MacDonald covered a variety of stories. This episode features several reports, notable among them a report on the IDP development scheme. The scheme was worth £20 million, a huge amount in the 80s. Crofting and fish farming were the main focus for development and every township applied for a share of IDP support. The second report is about Rhenigidale, which had no road to the village until 1990. Villagers could only come and go by boat or by walking for miles across moorland. The final feature is about education in the islands and how the council was planning to close small rural schools while also trying to encourage bilingual education.