24. Iona, Inner Hebrides
Neil Oliver: News, Comment, History
Fat Belly Films
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Neil’s journey takes us to a magical island where the landscape, the light and the very air you breath come together to soothe the soul.
This week Neil sails from Oban, on the west coast of Scotland, to the island of Mull, from there he takes another boat to island of Iona. On the edge of the British Isles, Iona is steeped in ancient history long lost in time, said to be the place where some Scottish, Irish and Norwegian Kings are buried. It's now famous as a holy island where a group of very early Christian evangelists came to keep their faith alive. It's an island of breath-taking beauty that has the power to restore you.
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| 0:00.0 | The 15 million pound Lotto Super Saturday jackpot must be won this Saturday. |
| 0:04.5 | Or thousands of you will win a share of the prize. |
| 0:06.7 | But who will it be? |
| 0:07.7 | Maybe Raj, watching the racewalk and thinking I could do that. |
| 0:10.6 | Well speed walk down the shop and get yourself a ticket. |
| 0:13.1 | Lotto will you be next play in store or on app the national lottery account terms |
| 0:17.6 | rules and procedures apply players must be 18 or over. And I find there's something other worldly about being able to go there and kneel down on it and put your hand on it and know that you're you're |
| 0:33.3 | occupying the same space of the universe, the same tiny space in the vast universe that |
| 0:41.4 | was once inhabited through the gossamer Thin Curtain of Time it was inhabited by |
| 0:46.8 | Columba. In this podcast we're traveling to a place like no other. A magical island where the landscape, the light and the very air you breathe, all come together to cradle and |
| 1:06.6 | captivate you. |
| 1:09.4 | Steeped in ancient history, long lost in time. Now famous is the place where some of the earliest |
| 1:15.6 | Christian evangelists came to keep their faith alive. But regardless of who you are or |
| 1:21.7 | what you believe, it's a place with the power to make you special, |
| 1:27.1 | a place whose rocks, sea, and the sky above are simply good for the soul. |
| 1:35.0 | I'm to the British Isles. Hi Neil, last week we travelled with you to Kent and set foot in a grand Roman villa, |
| 2:02.0 | decorated with incredible mosaic floors and wall paintings. |
| 2:06.8 | Where are we now? This one this week. It's a place that takes, well a bit of getting to, put it that way. |
| 2:14.0 | Sailing from the west coast of Scotland, you have to hop from one island and then onto another, |
| 2:20.0 | but it's worth it. |
| 2:22.0 | The place we're talking about is home to vital history and |
| 2:25.4 | breathtaking beauty. It's the island of Iona. When you'd start talking about things like the British Isles and talking about how much time you've spent traveling around it as I have |
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