34. The heart of the British Isles, Snaefell, Isle of Man
Neil Oliver: News, Comment, History
Fat Belly Films
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
This week Neil travels to an island at the heart of the British Isles.
Snaefell is the highest mountain on the Isle of Man. On a clear day, from it’s peak, they say you can spin 360 degrees and see seven Kingdoms. The Isle of Man is at the geographical centre of the British Isles archipelago, but it’s a place apart. A constitutional anomaly that’s under the UK’s protection, but has its own parliament, laws and language. It’s an island of great beauty, deep history and stubborn independence, a place with the power to reset your equilibrium.
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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. For hundreds of years it was pulled like a bone between two dogs between England and Scotland. |
| 0:34.0 | But ultimately, or through all, |
| 0:36.0 | the place somehow managed to retain |
| 0:39.0 | this kind of sense of itself as a place apart. |
| 0:51.0 | In this podcast we're traveling to the heart of the British Isles, an island set apart, stubbornly independent, marked by an ancient |
| 1:00.4 | three-legged motif. Small, proud with a deep history. On a clear and bright day, |
| 1:11.6 | from the top of its highest mountain you can look out and view |
| 1:16.0 | seven kingdoms so they say. |
| 1:21.0 | I'm stepping out across Britain to discover 100 remarkable places that have shaped |
| 1:27.2 | you, me and the whole world. I'm Neil Oliver and this is my love letter to the British Isles. Hi Neil, last week we turned the pages of Magna Carta, an iconic world famous document that helped lay the foundations of democracy. |
| 1:55.0 | Where are we now? |
| 1:57.0 | We're off to an island that sits right at the geographical heart of the archipelago of the British Isles. |
| 2:04.0 | It's a place that often gets a bit forgotten |
| 2:06.0 | in the history of these Isles. |
| 2:08.0 | It's even overlooked by most people |
| 2:10.0 | when they think about the British Isles. |
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