For the people of Berneray in the Outer Hebrides, life changed dramatically in the latter part of the last century. Trad | dG1fN0o4cUhDV3Rmb0U
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00:06 [birds chirping]
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00:12 [piano music]
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00:40 - We'd be talking about Slinug and who are you
00:43 and, you know, where are you from.
00:45 [no dialogue]
00:46 Who are you from, really?
00:48 We're asking who are you from.
00:50 - It's amazing in some ways how little has changed,
00:52 but also how much has changed.
00:54 You know, it's a small island, but it felt a lot bigger then.
00:57 [no dialogue]
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01:08 - There is no word in English for Duchess,
01:10 so it's culture,
01:13 so it's everything that's around you,
01:16 but it's also everything that's in you.
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01:25 - You know, the men were expected to stay
01:27 and carry on the croft, carry on the fishing.
01:29 Well, with women, it was the opposite.
01:31 It was like, you're leaving.
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01:44 - If anyone had told me that first Sunday in church
01:47 that one of those men doing the presenting
01:49 would be my father-in-law in a year's time,
01:52 what would you have done?
01:54 [laughs]
01:55 I'd have dived off the pier and started swimming.
01:58 [laughs]
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02:13 - We need to look at the richness of what we have,
02:18 so going back to Duchess, what we've inherited,
02:21 and we have to, I suppose, see what it is
02:24 about our own culture that we value,
02:26 and what are we sad about losing?
02:29 What are we grieving for?
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