Mrs B spotted this gem on I Player for BBC Alba. Repeats of soap set on the Isle of Lewis done in Gaelic with English subtitles.
All the standard soap ingredients; a pub, shop/garage with a sharp tongued woman as proprietor, a n'er do well character always up to no good, faked illness and implausible accidents/disasters and in the most recently shown episode a two timing copper caught with one woman on his bed, doe-eyed in a dressing gown, when the other turns up at the door.
I'd normally run a mile from soaps but......
Filmed on location so Mrs B and I enjoy the 'spot the place thing' and as it originally aired in the nineties there's quite a bit of nostalgia for cars, brands the old ferry etc.
Part written by Peter May who has subsequently made the Hebridean murder/mystery genre his own.
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