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Canoe Boys in The Herald Magzine

You can subscribe online (there's a 3-day free trial) and read the story about the Canoe Boys programmes written by Fiona Russell. Every journalist I've spoken to about The Canoe Boys story has been enthralled by it. I'm glad to be playing a small part in bringing this classic Scottish Adventure to a wider audience. See what you think. Radio Scotland 11.30 Wednesday 14th Nov listen online live or for up to seven days .

We Have Transmission (dates)

The first part of The Canoe Boys multi media extravaganza will be a 7-minute feature in The Adventure Show. It'll be on BBC-2 Scotland on Wednesday 7th November at 7pm. There's a fleeting mention of us at the bottom of the programme website . The Radio Scotland programmes start Wednesday 14th November. Programme 2 is Friday 23rd November and Prog 3 is Wednesday 28th November. Listen to the trailer. Each programme is played twice. Once at 11.30am, then again at 24.30 in the wee hours of the following morning. If you miss them, or live outside Scotland, they stay on the Listen Again page for seven days. Our programme will appear amongst all the others once it has gone out.

The Canoe Boys -The Sequel

A classic of sea kayaking literature will be celebrated in a series of radio documentaries this summer. One of the paddlers, Simon Willis, outlines the plan. If you or any member of your family can remember the original Canoe Boys, or have a story relating to their trip, please get in touch. “Please don’t tell people we’re re-creating the original voyage”, I asked Cailean MacLeod as we planned this trip. “There’s no way I intend to paddle the west coast of Scotland in a canvas canoe and a string vest!” The Canoe Boys is the classic adventure story of the first epic Scottish sea journey by kayak, and I defy any modern sea kayaker to read it without clenched buttocks. The equipment they used seems so primitive I’d hesitate before taking it into a swimming pool. Yet in 1934 Alastair Dunnett and Seumas Adam paddled Scotland’s wild, west coast all the way from Glasgow to Skye. They were either exceptionally foolish or heroically brave; probably both. This summer two of us will paddle k...

That's All For Now

That's the end of The Canoe Boys project. In the column to the left are links to the BBC Website and a few extras. The programmes were removed for copyright reasons on 5th December 2007. If you want to read what we're currently up to, check SimonWillis.net or Cailean's Blog .

Dunnett's Personal Scrapbook

This cutting comes from Sir Alastair Dunnett's own scrapbook. If this interest you, I'll give a presentation using these photos and video at the Scottish Canoe Association's Paddle 07 event. It's at 1pm in Perth on Sunday 28th October . After his kayak voyage up Scotland's west coast in 1934, Alastair Dunnett collected all his photos and newspaper cuttings into one scrapbook. I interviewed his son Ninian last week, chatting as we flicked through this small piece of Scottish history. Ninian has kindly given me access to the photos and cuttings from that book. Ninian was the final interview for our Canoe Boys programmes. Since the last recording, all the audio material has been played into a computer in Newtonmore, ready for editing. As I write, Ninian's interview is probably going in too. Getting all the audio into sync is taking time, since it was often recorded on three separate machines. Once that's done, the producer Margaret Wilks picks out the best bits...

Photos

We are back from the first stint of recording (5 days). The weather gods shined on us in the Dorus Mor, Seil island, Oban Bay, Duart Castle, Fishinish, Tobermory, Ardmore, Dervaig, Ardnamurchan and everywhere else we visited and got the recorders out!! I've uploaded a heap of photos tonight to an online folder on my Flickr photo pages of the last few days. Simon's been posting on his personal blog .

Canoe Boys on TV now

I'm delighted to say the television feature about our Canoe Boys programmes can be watched online. On the bottom of this Scotland Outdoors webpage you'll find a link called 'Watch the Canoe Boys feature'. The radio programmes are the main body of work and start next Wed 14th Nov at 11.30am. Online you can listen live or for seven days after transmission .

BBC Website for The Canoe Boys

The excellent online team at Scotland Outdoors have produced a new website where some of the extra elements of The Canoe Boys programmes can come together. There's an audio slideshow, with some of the supeb stills from Alastair Dunnett's private scrapbook and my Podcast with Duncan Winning recorded before the trip where we talk about the boats they used. A second webpage contains my diary from the recordings which previously appeared on this site, and some links to short videos I shot along the way. The programmes start next wednesday at 11.30am on Radio Scotland and online here .

Canoe Boys Presentation at Paddle 07

This image of the Canoe Boys, from 1934, comes from Alastair Dunnett's personal scrapbook. Next Sunday at 1pm I'll give a presentation about them at Paddle 07 in Perth . I'll have a load of stills like this courtesy of Ninian Dunnett, Alastair's son who has republished his Dad's book . On video, I'll have a feature about the trip I made with Cailean MacLeod, paddling key sections of the original route for three radio documentaries. The feature goes out on BBC-2 Scotland's Adventure Show on 7th November. Cailean is also taking a workshop at this event. Also on video, I'll have two extended interviews. The first is with Ninian Dunnett, who takes us through the famiuly album and explains how the Canoe Boys trip fit into his Father's busy life. The second is with SCA Honorary President Duncan Winning, who met the original Canoe Boys and puts their achievement into historical context. Between these, I'll talk for about twenty minutes about what we we...

Radio Programmes All Online

As I write, all three episodes of the Canoe Boys radio programmes can be heard on-line. How long this remains the case is out of my control, and is tied up with BBC copyright issues. The links are alongside this entry.

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