Landward is in the Shetland Islands where Euan McIlwraith explores the 40-year history of North Sea oil and looks to the industry's future, Sarah Mack is helping out on a croft and finding out why the Shetland pony is a global success story, and Dougie Vipond goes free diving for razor clams.
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Shetland Ponies
Duration: 00:56
Oil Boom!
Before becoming a TV and Radio Presenter Euan was a drilling engineer in the oil industry.聽 He investigates how Shetland took advantage of North Sea oil in the 70s and 80s.聽 Now the economy is booming again, with hundreds of millions of pounds being spent on and around the islands developing oil infrastructure, Euan finds out why.
Crofting
Sarah visits the traditional crofting township of Aith to meet the Dodge family and get a taste of modern crofting life.
Take a deep breath鈥�
Dougie tries fishing the hard way with local divers Ruaridh MacKenzie and Michael Balmain. He tags along as they free dive for razor clams 鈥� locally known as spoots.聽 The technique is simple 鈥� just take a deep breath and go for it.聽 But, as Dougie finds out it鈥檚 hard work! Later the whole team get a taste.
Shetland Ponies
We couldn鈥檛 go to Shetland without visiting a Shetland pony stud.聽 They are one of Shetland鈥檚 most popular exports after all. Worldwide around 17,000 Shetland pony foals are registered each year with the breed society. Sarah finds out what makes them so popular.
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Euan McIlwraith |
| Presenter | Dougie Vipond |
| Presenter | Sarah Mack |
| Series Producer | Fiona Clark |