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Neil Oliver: News, Comment, History

56. The Jacobites Last Stand, Culloden

Neil Oliver: News, Comment, History

Fat Belly Films

News, Neil Oliver, History, Comment

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast I’m taking you to a place that’s part of my ‘origin myth’, it’s a location that witnessed a bloody and brutal battle which is famous around the world. As a wee lad, it was here, that I discovered many of my ancestors from Clan Cameron were killed and buried. This realisation clicked a switch in my young brain and I realised that if I was connected to this part of history then I was connected to every part of it.

 

The build-up to this battle begins less than a year before when Bonnie Prince Charlie, the dashing young pretender, lands on the Scottish island of Eriskay, striding onto the bloody historical stage. He raises his standard and builds an army around himself, determined to claim the British crown by force. On 16th April 1746, on the beautiful moorland of Culloden his Jacobite army fought what would prove to be the last pitched battle ever to take palce on British soil – the Battle of Culloden.

 

 

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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.

0:28.4

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0:35.0

In the meantime, here's the next episode of my love letter to the British Isles.

0:39.0

Kew the music.

0:56.7

collodin for me is part of my origin myth in my imagination of nowhere else. Once I realized I was connected to anything, I realized I must be potentially connected

1:00.8

to everything.

1:09.0

In this episode, we come face to face with Bonnie Prince Charlie, the young pretender who swept onto the bloody historical stage hell-bent on claiming the British crown in the

1:17.8

midst of a pan-European civil war with complex religious allegiances swirling around, a simmering feud that had been coming

1:27.1

to the boil for decades, finally reached boiling point, and the curtains drew aside for the Jacobites last stand.

1:40.0

I'm stepping out across Britain to discover 100 remarkable places that have shaped you, me and the whole world.

1:48.0

I'm Neil Oliver and this is my love letter to the British Isles.

2:09.0

Hi Neil, in the last podcast we listened to a poignant lament ring out as the active union came into force and England and Scotland were joined. Where are we now?

2:11.0

Yeah, yeah, last week we saw two countries brought together by the pen. Now

2:15.9

we're marching with a dashing steward pretender intent on bringing war back to

2:22.2

these shores. They call him Bonnie Prince Charlie.

2:26.3

He lands on the Scottish island of Erskie, raises his standard and builds an army around himself.

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