4. The British Isles Are Born - Montrose Basin, Angus
Neil Oliver: News, Comment, History
Fat Belly Films
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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This week Neil brings us face to face with the violent, bloody birth of the British Isles.
In this episode Neil takes us to Angus, in Scotland to see the breath-taking beauty of the Montrose Basin and evidence of the biggest natural disaster the world has seen in the last 8000 years.
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| 0:00.0 | Picture this, static cars, idling engines, angry horns. |
| 0:08.0 | Now, picture you, zooming past it all, light and breezy. |
| 0:15.0 | Ah, the sweet feeling of whizzing past traffic. |
| 0:20.0 | Book your train journey via Avanti westcoast.co. UK. |
| 0:25.0 | avante west coast feel good travel. |
| 0:29.0 | The 15 million pound lotto super Saturday jackpot must be won this Saturday. |
| 0:34.6 | Or thousands of you will win a share of the prize. But who will it be? Maybe Raj, watching the |
| 0:38.9 | race walking thinking I could do that. Well speedwalk down the shop and get yourself a ticket. |
| 0:43.2 | Lotto, will you be next? |
| 0:44.8 | Play in store or on app. |
| 0:46.2 | The National Lottery, Account terms, rules and procedures apply, players must be 18 or over. It's very difficult for us in the modern era to imagine, to make sense, to make real the idea that we were for the longest time. The longest time we were part of the European continent. That was just how it was. |
| 1:10.0 | This week's podcast is the story of the biggest natural disaster in the last 8,000 years. |
| 1:18.0 | Elemental forces, unimaginable power, charging unstoppable across the North Sea, a tsunami, the like of which has not been seen since. |
| 1:40.0 | Out of the devastation, an island nation rose, the British Isles. I'm stepping out across Britain to discover 100 remarkable places that have shaped you, me, and the whole world. |
| 1:52.0 | I'm Neil Oliver and this is my love letter to the British Isles. In the last episode we took a walk down one of the oldest streets in the world |
| 2:09.2 | where the first cave art in Britain was found. |
| 2:13.0 | We're now in Scotland. |
| 2:14.7 | Why is this next place on your journey so special? |
| 2:18.7 | The Montrose Basin registers with me, |
| 2:21.1 | resonates with me, I find it unforgettable, because it's one of a few |
| 2:26.4 | locations around the British Isles where you get a sense of these islands being a work in |
| 2:31.8 | progress, |
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