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Bagpipes, haggis, and the heartbreak of leaving home; Hoots Mon examines those who have migrated from Scotland to Aotearoa. In the 1840s a group of Scots settlers started a new life in Dunedin, after breaking off from the Church of Scotland. Ayrshire-born director John Bates talks to some of their descendants, and heads to the far north to interview others with Caledonian roots, in Waipu. Alongside some impressive Richard Long camerawork, the interviews include composer Steve McDonald, whose ancestral research has inspired several Celtic-themed albums.
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Many years have past since working on this program, I'm so proud to have been a part of John's vision and the history of the Scots here in New Zealand.
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The link to this was sent to me, as convener of the Auckland Gaelic Society, by Lisa Preston.
I'd love to be able to watch it but I think it's drunk & plays a second or two bit at a time & then stops.
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Is it you or is it me. I've not had a dram today yet.
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Another John Bates doco about people & place
Television, 2007 (Excerpts)
The English episode of a later TVNZ settler series
Television, 2000 (Full Length Episode)
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Television, 1976 (Full Length Episode)
A series featuring Scots settlers
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Geoff Crolley
Posted at 11.43PM - 12.07.2011
Seems strange that recently the New Zealand company, Infratil, rebranded the Ayrshire airport near Robert Burns Birthplace, as Glasgow Prestwick Airport.
Surely, The Robert Burns International Airport, Prestwick, would have made more chests fill with pride than that?
Scots rename a part of New Zealand as Mosgiel and New Zealanders rename a part of Ayrshire as Glasgow; wierd!!