People from the North Coast

Every Saturday night, men crowded into a house in Swanson Street and waited their turn beneath Mrs Swanson's razor. She shaved aristocrats, gentlemen and travelling salesmen, sharpened her own blades and charged whatever her customers thought she deserved. Who was the woman behind the barber's pole?

Alexander Pope was a minister, Gaelic scholar, antiquarian and one of Reay’s most colourful characters. Today, hardly anybody knows he is there.

Anders Holch Povlsen's money is restoring historic buildings, regenerating landscapes and transforming communities across the North Highlands. It has also given one man extraordinary influence over land, tourism and local development. Is he preserving the Highlands - or remaking them in his own image?

John Lennon brought Yoko Ono and their children north to rediscover the Highlands of his childhood. Then a foreign car appeared on a single-track road near Tongue - and Lennon's holiday ended in a ditch.

Lotte Glob’s extraordinary Sculpture Croft reveals something unexpected around every corner. Her sculpture's may not suit everyone's taste, but her vision and work is to be admired by all.