When 'The Crown' brought Argentina to Lybster
Robert arrived at Lybster Harbour with a car full of guests and found new buildings, an Argentine flag and a television crew on the waterfront. There was only one sensible response: buy tea and lemon drizzle cake, sit in the sunshine and watch 'The Crown' turn Caithness into South Georgia.
Who - or what - is the real star of 'The Traitors'?
Millions watch the accusations, banishments and carefully concealed murders, yet 'The Traitors' is quietly selling something else to the nation. From Ardross Castle to Loch Glass, Fyrish Monument and the Orrin Dam, the North Highlands provide the drama before anybody has told the first lie.
'The Silver Darlings' and the Caithness Coast
Latheronwheel is one of the loveliest small harbours on the East Caithness coast. But in 1947 it became something more: a setting for 'The Silver Darlings', adapted from Neil M. Gunn’s great Caithness novel. Discover how a story born just down the road returned home to the coast that inspired it.
'The Incomer': when Caithness became a fictional island
I first heard about 'The Incomer' after encountering its secretive film crew while touring Caithness. The only clue they gave me involved a woman finding a sex toy on a beach. More than a year later, that object appeared on our local cinema screen, followed by an extraordinary game of Caithness landscape bingo.