Scotland has over nine hundred islands. In the final episode of Series One, Lesley Kennedy goes to the edges of the country, the places where Scotland runs out of land and meets the Atlantic, and talks about them the way she talks about everything: honestly, personally, and with genuine enthusiasm for what makes them unlike anywhere else.

In this episode: Skye, including something Lesley has wanted to say for a while about the Fairy Pools in July and why the most beautiful version of Skye is not the one most summer visitors experience. The Outer Hebrides, which she has not visited yet but intends to, with particular excitement about landing on the beach airport on Barra. Orkney, home to Skara Brae and the Ring of Brodgar, two of the most significant prehistoric sites in Europe. Shetland, home to Up Helly Aa, the largest fire festival in Eur ...