Banjo and Ro’s Grand Island Hotel – Andrena & Alasdair’s Chat

This short episode is being released to coincide with the premiere of Banjo and Ro Beale’s new series
Banjo and Ro’s Grand Island Hotel, which can be found on BBC iPlayer.

The episode features a conversation with the wonderful Andrena Duffin, a local historian and tour guide who knows so much about our history. A minute of this conversation was featured in the first episode of Grand Island Hotel, so I thought you may like to hear more of what Andrena had to say.

Thank you to Banjo and Ro and their lovely production team Ross Jess and Joe Sharp, for sharing the audio with us.

You can also hear an episode of the podcast where Banjo and Ro feature as the guests here, below:

Thanks for listening, and all the best to Banjo and Ro for their brave scheme, long live the Grand Island Hotel!

[Image courtesy of Joe Sharp]

Episode links:

Charles MacQuarrie

Lachlan MacQuarrie

Staffa MacDonald

The Grand Tour

The Mitford Family

David Douglas of Douglas Fir

Frank Kingdon-Ward

Augustine Henry

Jospeh Banks

Lord Ullin’s Daughter

Flora MacDonald

7 Years’ War