0:00:07 > 0:00:10Coast is home.
0:00:10 > 0:00:15We're back to explore the most endlessly fascinating shoreline
0:00:15 > 0:00:17in the world.
0:00:17 > 0:00:19Our own.
0:00:22 > 0:00:26The quest to discover surprising secret stories
0:00:26 > 0:00:29from around the British Isles continues.
0:00:34 > 0:00:36This is Coast.
0:01:01 > 0:01:04We're about to embark on a voyage of discovery.
0:01:08 > 0:01:12Our destinations are the glorious islands of the British Isles.
0:01:13 > 0:01:17Jewels set in spectacular seas
0:01:17 > 0:01:20with a treasure trove of secrets in store.
0:01:23 > 0:01:30This is an epic adventure to explore the mysteries of the Isles.
0:01:38 > 0:01:42Shrouded in cloaks of sea mist,
0:01:42 > 0:01:45the Western Isles can seem like a shadowy, secret world.
0:01:45 > 0:01:49Fertile territory for the making of myths.
0:01:50 > 0:01:54Spectacular sights and tall tales
0:01:54 > 0:02:01captivated a new breed of tourists around 150 years ago.
0:02:01 > 0:02:05They departed from new gateways to adventure, like here at Largs.
0:02:08 > 0:02:11Following in the footsteps of Victorian travellers,
0:02:11 > 0:02:14Tessa's searching out the truth of an island tale
0:02:14 > 0:02:17that seems much stranger than fiction.
0:02:19 > 0:02:20In the late 1800s,
0:02:20 > 0:02:25the sleepy town of Largs was a thriving tourist destination.
0:02:25 > 0:02:30The golden ticket for travel hungry adventurers of the Victorian age,
0:02:30 > 0:02:33was a grand tour of the Western Isles.
0:02:33 > 0:02:35The new craze for paddle-steamer voyages
0:02:35 > 0:02:38drew people here from far and wide,
0:02:38 > 0:02:42especially those obsessed with a scientific sense of discovery.
0:02:42 > 0:02:45One such traveller was French author Jules Verne,
0:02:45 > 0:02:48a founding father of science fiction.
0:02:48 > 0:02:51In 1879, Verne, in search of new wonders,
0:02:51 > 0:02:53travelled to the Western Isles.
0:02:53 > 0:02:57The man who wrote Around The World In 80 Days
0:02:57 > 0:02:59and 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
0:02:59 > 0:03:03was inspired here to write a book about a natural phenomenon.
0:03:03 > 0:03:06Part fact, part fiction.
0:03:06 > 0:03:09The mysterious and elusive green ray.
0:03:09 > 0:03:15In the book, Jules Verne describes a fleeting green flash of light
0:03:15 > 0:03:18that reveals itself just as the sun sets.
0:03:18 > 0:03:21He called it Le Rayon Vert,
0:03:21 > 0:03:25meaning the green ray, more commonly known as the green flash.
0:03:30 > 0:03:33The novel tells the story of a young woman, Helena,
0:03:33 > 0:03:35who, having read of the green ray,
0:03:35 > 0:03:38sets off on a voyage to the Western Isles
0:03:38 > 0:03:40to try and see it herself.
0:03:40 > 0:03:44Legend tells that the green ray destroys illusions
0:03:44 > 0:03:47and will allow her to find true love.
0:03:50 > 0:03:54Joining me as I begin my voyage into the islands, is Ian Thompson,
0:03:54 > 0:03:55who has studied Verne's book.
0:03:56 > 0:04:01Does the green ray really exist? Will we be able to see it?
0:04:01 > 0:04:03Yes, the phenomenon certainly exists.
0:04:03 > 0:04:05We don't know that Verne himself witnessed it.
0:04:05 > 0:04:08There's nothing in the correspondence or diaries
0:04:08 > 0:04:13to prove that, but it certainly does exist and has been witnessed,
0:04:13 > 0:04:17photographed and I have here an example where we see,
0:04:17 > 0:04:21just for a few seconds, this green flash or green ray.
0:04:21 > 0:04:24That was what Verne's heroine was after.
0:04:25 > 0:04:26And it's what I'm after too.
0:04:29 > 0:04:31Like both Jules Verne and his heroine, Helena,
0:04:31 > 0:04:35I'm boarding a steamer to travel to the Western Isles.
0:04:45 > 0:04:49The green ray is very interesting in Verne's huge output,
0:04:49 > 0:04:53because it's the one novel that follows exactly
0:04:53 > 0:04:57his own travel and his travels in Scotland.
0:04:57 > 0:05:01He adored all the myths and legends and history of Scotland
0:05:01 > 0:05:04and he regarded it as more or less his ancestral home.
0:05:04 > 0:05:09Why, in particular, are the Western Isles a good place
0:05:09 > 0:05:11for seeing this green flash phenomenon?
0:05:11 > 0:05:13The western coast of the Western Isles
0:05:13 > 0:05:19offered a completely unblocked view of the horizon and sunset.
0:05:20 > 0:05:25So, in other words, here, where we are right now, is no good.
0:05:25 > 0:05:27You can't see over the horizon.
0:05:27 > 0:05:30It's clearly not an easy phenomenon to capture.
0:05:30 > 0:05:33It does require very specific atmospheric conditions.
0:05:33 > 0:05:35What do you think our chances are?
0:05:35 > 0:05:36Pretty slim.
0:05:39 > 0:05:43To have any hope, I need to push on to the open sea.
0:05:43 > 0:05:47Like Helena, I'm determined to witness the green flash.
0:05:47 > 0:05:50Has anybody else here seen it though?
0:05:50 > 0:05:54- I wonder, Sir, if you've ever heard of the green ray.- I haven't, no.
0:05:54 > 0:05:58- I don't suppose you know anything about the green flash, do you?- No.
0:05:58 > 0:06:00I haven't, I'm sorry, I don't.
0:06:00 > 0:06:04- Have you ever heard of the green flash?- Oh, yes, I have.- Have you?
0:06:04 > 0:06:07In fact, I've seen the green flash.
0:06:07 > 0:06:10Just as the sun goes down, just as it disappears over the horizon,
0:06:10 > 0:06:12there's a green flash.
0:06:12 > 0:06:14It's quite amazing to see it.
0:06:15 > 0:06:18Reassured, I continue heading west. It's a race against the sun.
0:06:24 > 0:06:26Back in Verne's day,
0:06:26 > 0:06:29the fashionable sets in London, Paris and Berlin
0:06:29 > 0:06:33saw the Western Isles as the last wilderness of Europe.
0:06:35 > 0:06:39It's clear that Verne too was captivated by this place.
0:06:40 > 0:06:44As he made his way to the lochs and out to the islands,
0:06:44 > 0:06:50natural wonders like the Corryvreckan Whirlpool fuelled his imagination,
0:06:50 > 0:06:56as did the imposing island of Staffa and the wondrous Fingal's Cave.
0:07:00 > 0:07:04With sunset approaching, the paddle steamer leaves me behind.
0:07:05 > 0:07:09I've arrived at the island where Verne's heroine got her chance
0:07:09 > 0:07:11to see the green flash.
0:07:12 > 0:07:15But she had better luck than me.
0:07:15 > 0:07:19I've got a view of the horizon, but the clouds have closed in.
0:07:19 > 0:07:24The sun's nowhere to be seen, the elements are against me.
0:07:25 > 0:07:27But I was brought up in Scotland, so I am not daft enough
0:07:27 > 0:07:32to have left the green flash to chance. I've got a Plan B.
0:07:32 > 0:07:33'I am meeting Johannes Courtial,
0:07:33 > 0:07:37'who is giving me my very own green flash demonstration.'
0:07:37 > 0:07:41How does a green flash actually work?
0:07:41 > 0:07:43There's the sun,
0:07:43 > 0:07:48and when it's setting, the light from the sun reaches the observer
0:07:48 > 0:07:52by entering the atmosphere, where it gets bent.
0:07:52 > 0:07:54when the sun sets on the horizon,
0:07:54 > 0:07:59the light goes through a bit of atmosphere a bit like a prism.
0:07:59 > 0:08:03- I happen to have one here.- So if the atmosphere is like a prism,
0:08:03 > 0:08:06what effect does that have on the light?
0:08:06 > 0:08:08What this does is it splits the sun's light
0:08:08 > 0:08:11into, effectively, a rainbow.
0:08:11 > 0:08:15The red bit is at the bottom, the blue bit is at the top,
0:08:15 > 0:08:17and as the sun sets below the horizon,
0:08:17 > 0:08:19this rainbow disappears.
0:08:19 > 0:08:22The blue is at the end, so that would set last,
0:08:22 > 0:08:25but the green flashes green and not blue,
0:08:25 > 0:08:28and that's because blue light is scattered by the atmosphere.
0:08:28 > 0:08:29This is why the sky is blue,
0:08:29 > 0:08:31and that's why, in this rainbow,
0:08:31 > 0:08:35blue is missing and then the top colour is green.
0:08:35 > 0:08:38The last colour that is disappearing below the horizon is a bit of green.
0:08:38 > 0:08:41- When that sets, that's the green flash.- Eureka!
0:08:41 > 0:08:46- Can you recreate the green flash here?- Well, we'll do our best.
0:08:46 > 0:08:49We have all we need, I think. We have a fish tank with angled sides.
0:08:49 > 0:08:51This will act like a prism.
0:08:51 > 0:08:54'To make the tank mimic the bending power
0:08:54 > 0:08:57'of the Earth's atmosphere, we fill it with water.'
0:08:59 > 0:09:03'Add powder to scatter the light, and finally a torch, our sun.'
0:09:04 > 0:09:07I can see some form of rainbow here.
0:09:07 > 0:09:12I do see it actually, a kind of blue-y green rim.
0:09:12 > 0:09:15But I thought that that green flash was meant to be at the top,
0:09:15 > 0:09:17the last bit of the sun to disappear, not on the right-hand side.
0:09:17 > 0:09:21That's because our atmosphere is standing on its side.
0:09:21 > 0:09:22This way is up.
0:09:23 > 0:09:25'With a little magic touch,
0:09:25 > 0:09:28'it starts to look a lot more like the setting sun,
0:09:28 > 0:09:31'complete with mysterious green flash.'
0:09:33 > 0:09:37Given what we've been up against, I think you've worked wonders.
0:09:37 > 0:09:39This is amazing. I actually understand it.
0:09:39 > 0:09:42'And though I may have cheated a little,
0:09:42 > 0:09:46'with the help of a German scientist and a plastic fish tank,
0:09:46 > 0:09:49'I've joined the lucky few to have seen
0:09:49 > 0:09:51'the rare and mysterious green flash.'
0:09:59 > 0:10:04Around a hundred years ago, Scottish waters became a battle ground.
0:10:07 > 0:10:13During the First World War, enemy ships stalked these shores.
0:10:14 > 0:10:21To meet the German threat, the Royal Navy headed north to base on Orkney,
0:10:21 > 0:10:26at the sheltered bay of Scapa Flow.
0:10:26 > 0:10:29The Navy's mighty warships went long ago.
0:10:29 > 0:10:33But intrigue lingers in their wake.
0:10:33 > 0:10:38Neil's exploring how the most famous face of the First World War
0:10:38 > 0:10:43came to lose his life here in the most mysterious fashion.
0:10:43 > 0:10:49This is the curious case of the death of Lord Kitchener.
0:10:49 > 0:10:52Our tale begins in the summer of 1916.
0:10:52 > 0:10:56Scapa Flow is awash with ships of the British Grand Fleet,
0:10:56 > 0:11:00the most fearsome instrument of war the world has ever seen.
0:11:00 > 0:11:07On the 5th June, HMS Hampshire is about to slip out for a covert mission to Russia.
0:11:07 > 0:11:10On board is one of Britain's most celebrated men.
0:11:10 > 0:11:15His face was instantly recognisable and nearly 100 years later,
0:11:15 > 0:11:17it still is.
0:11:17 > 0:11:20Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener -
0:11:20 > 0:11:24the poster boy of army recruitment during the First World War.
0:11:24 > 0:11:28When he arrived here in Scapa Flow on 5th June 1916,
0:11:28 > 0:11:32he was suffering from no more than a mild bout of seasickness.
0:11:32 > 0:11:37A few hours later, he was dead, and exactly how he died
0:11:37 > 0:11:39and why puzzles some people even to this day.
0:11:41 > 0:11:47Conspiracy theories surrounding Kitchener's fate swirl around these murky waters.
0:11:47 > 0:11:50Ripples of intrigue remain after the shock of terrible events
0:11:50 > 0:11:52that made grim headlines.
0:11:52 > 0:11:54Look at this.
0:11:54 > 0:11:58Not many people's death would warrant a full front page picture
0:11:58 > 0:12:01of a newspaper in 1916.
0:12:01 > 0:12:05But the nation was amazed and bemused by the loss of Kitchener.
0:12:05 > 0:12:08Somehow, the warship he'd been travelling on
0:12:08 > 0:12:10had sunk in home waters,
0:12:10 > 0:12:13killing over 600 men, including Kitchener.
0:12:13 > 0:12:18To the people, he was a hero, a patriot and a friend.
0:12:18 > 0:12:21They'd heeded his call to war.
0:12:21 > 0:12:25# We don't want to lose you
0:12:25 > 0:12:29# But we think you ought to go...#
0:12:29 > 0:12:32"Your country needs you" was his rallying cry,
0:12:32 > 0:12:34and his country did not disappoint him.
0:12:34 > 0:12:39From 1914 onwards, 2.5 million men answered the call.
0:12:39 > 0:12:43Whole communities, mates from the same factories and towns
0:12:43 > 0:12:46formed the famous Pals battalions.
0:12:46 > 0:12:52By summer 1916, this band of brothers had become Kitchener's new army.
0:12:54 > 0:12:58We were two years in the making and ten minutes in the destroying,
0:12:58 > 0:13:00said one of Kitchener's new army.
0:13:00 > 0:13:03Pals battalions were brutally butchered on the first day
0:13:03 > 0:13:07of the Battle of the Somme in July 1916,
0:13:07 > 0:13:10but Kitchener didn't live to see his men mown down.
0:13:10 > 0:13:12He was dead before the battle could get under way.
0:13:12 > 0:13:16While his soldiers and his country still loved him.
0:13:16 > 0:13:20The nation demanded to know why HMS Hampshire sank,
0:13:20 > 0:13:25as it set out from Orkney with their national hero on board.
0:13:25 > 0:13:28An investigation was conducted to formulate the official answer.
0:13:28 > 0:13:31- How are you doing?- Good to see you.
0:13:31 > 0:13:34I'm meeting historian Nick Hewitt, who's going to give me
0:13:34 > 0:13:37the authorised version of HMS Hampshire's loss
0:13:37 > 0:13:39and Kitchener's death.
0:13:39 > 0:13:43So on 5th June, Kitchener is right here in Scapa Flow.
0:13:43 > 0:13:44He is.
0:13:44 > 0:13:46Is this photographic proof?
0:13:46 > 0:13:49This is the last picture we know of Kitchener leaving the Iron Duke,
0:13:49 > 0:13:52walking along the decks to board the Hampshire.
0:13:52 > 0:13:54Why is Kitchener en route to Russia anyway?
0:13:54 > 0:13:56Russia is on the verge of collapse
0:13:56 > 0:13:59and Kitchener is the face of British military might.
0:13:59 > 0:14:03He's a logical man to send around and put some pep in the Russians.
0:14:03 > 0:14:05So what happens?
0:14:05 > 0:14:07What they're looking to do is very simple,
0:14:07 > 0:14:11to take Kitchener from Scapa Flow to Russia, which is in that direction.
0:14:11 > 0:14:16The problem is, there is what's described as the worst gale of the century.
0:14:16 > 0:14:18The Hampshire sets off from alongside the Iron Duke.
0:14:18 > 0:14:20Into the teeth of the gale.
0:14:20 > 0:14:24The captain sensibly starts to move her closer to the shore
0:14:24 > 0:14:26to try and get some degree of shelter.
0:14:26 > 0:14:29It doesn't help, but it's the right thing to do.
0:14:29 > 0:14:32What they don't know is that off Marwick Head
0:14:32 > 0:14:34there is a small German minefield
0:14:34 > 0:14:38that's been laid secretly by a U-boat the week before,
0:14:38 > 0:14:42and the Hampshire runs straight into one of these mines.
0:14:42 > 0:14:47That's the official account the Government hoped would lay the story to rest
0:14:47 > 0:14:50but some on the islands of Orkney remained uneasy.
0:14:50 > 0:14:54They had witnessed mysterious events on the night of the tragedy.
0:14:57 > 0:14:59We've reached the spot where Kitchener died,
0:14:59 > 0:15:02about a mile and a half offshore.
0:15:02 > 0:15:06The Hampshire lies upside-down on the sea bed,
0:15:06 > 0:15:08about 70 metres below my feet.
0:15:08 > 0:15:11The ship sank in minutes.
0:15:11 > 0:15:14Over 600 men perished.
0:15:14 > 0:15:16Despite the terrible storm,
0:15:16 > 0:15:20islanders tried to help survivors struggling to get up cliffs.
0:15:20 > 0:15:25The rescuers felt more men should have been saved, so why weren't they?
0:15:25 > 0:15:28- Well, James.- Hello.- How are you?
0:15:28 > 0:15:30James Sabiston heard strange tales,
0:15:30 > 0:15:33passed down from his grandparents.
0:15:33 > 0:15:37My grandparents and my mother lived here.
0:15:37 > 0:15:40Two survivors managed to get to his grandparents' house
0:15:40 > 0:15:42the night the ship went down.
0:15:42 > 0:15:45I presume everyone was in their beds.
0:15:45 > 0:15:46Yes. They were all in bed.
0:15:46 > 0:15:51I think they came and knocked at the door at two o'clock in the morning.
0:15:51 > 0:15:53And my grandmother went to the door,
0:15:53 > 0:15:57and I think she was a bit worried, wasn't sure if it was a spy
0:15:57 > 0:16:01or something may be coming, but she took 'em in anyway.
0:16:01 > 0:16:04These are the photographs here, and that's one of Dick Simpson.
0:16:06 > 0:16:07He's just a boy.
0:16:07 > 0:16:09Yes, 20.
0:16:09 > 0:16:11And that's Jack Bowman.
0:16:11 > 0:16:12What did he say?
0:16:12 > 0:16:16He said our ship's going down and we want some help.
0:16:16 > 0:16:18There were some more maybe to be saved.
0:16:18 > 0:16:24And so what did your grandparents do once they realised that there was a tragedy?
0:16:24 > 0:16:28My grandfather went to the neighbour and got the men from there.
0:16:28 > 0:16:33They got ropes and they took up three survivors that way.
0:16:33 > 0:16:36Before they were stopped by the authorities.
0:16:36 > 0:16:40Your grandfather and the rest were stopped from doing any more of the rescue?
0:16:40 > 0:16:42Oh, yes.
0:16:42 > 0:16:46What is the word on why anyone would stop a rescue?
0:16:46 > 0:16:49That's what makes it so suspicious, I would say.
0:16:50 > 0:16:54You'd think it was something going on somewhere.
0:16:54 > 0:16:58Who do you think the authorities actually were?
0:16:58 > 0:17:00I don't know.
0:17:00 > 0:17:05Whether they were neighbouring authorities or police or who,
0:17:05 > 0:17:06I don't know really who it was.
0:17:06 > 0:17:10James's grandfather never did find out for sure
0:17:10 > 0:17:12who'd stopped the rescue efforts, or why.
0:17:16 > 0:17:21This is the bay where the sailors were struggling to get ashore.
0:17:21 > 0:17:25I'm hoping Tom Muir from the local museum can shed more light
0:17:25 > 0:17:29on the mysterious authorities who prevented the locals from helping.
0:17:31 > 0:17:35There were troops down here, there was an order from the Admiralty
0:17:35 > 0:17:38not to allow civilians down to the shore
0:17:38 > 0:17:42because there might be sensitive papers washed up,
0:17:42 > 0:17:45which they didn't want falling into enemy hands.
0:17:45 > 0:17:47Right. So it's that paranoia stage.
0:17:47 > 0:17:49Very.
0:17:49 > 0:17:51Do you think it's possible that the conditions that night
0:17:51 > 0:17:54were just so appalling that the authorities were right
0:17:54 > 0:17:58in thinking that no-one could help in the water anyway?
0:17:58 > 0:18:00They certainly could have helped.
0:18:00 > 0:18:04The people around here were farmers but they were also fishermen,
0:18:04 > 0:18:07so they knew the tides, they knew where the rafts would come in,
0:18:07 > 0:18:12they knew that life rafts would come in here,
0:18:12 > 0:18:17so when the life rafts did come in, there was nobody there to help.
0:18:17 > 0:18:19There were just smashed against the rocks
0:18:19 > 0:18:25and there was that feeling that if the authorities had allowed them
0:18:25 > 0:18:28to go out and help, the human emotion, the desire
0:18:28 > 0:18:33to go and help them was denied, and that cost lives.
0:18:36 > 0:18:44Sailors Dick Simpson and Jack Bowman were two of only 12 survivors.
0:18:44 > 0:18:48Lord Kitchener and the rest of the crew perished.
0:18:51 > 0:18:55The islanders raised money for a memorial to the tragedy,
0:18:55 > 0:18:58but the story would not die.
0:18:58 > 0:19:01The secrecy that scuppered local rescue efforts
0:19:01 > 0:19:04suggested sinister motives to some.
0:19:04 > 0:19:07Was the Government hiding something?
0:19:08 > 0:19:12The people may have loved Lord Kitchener in 1916,
0:19:12 > 0:19:15but many of those in power did not.
0:19:15 > 0:19:19As Secretary of State for War, he was accused of having overseen
0:19:19 > 0:19:22the bungled and disastrous operation at Gallipoli,
0:19:22 > 0:19:25with a cost of 100,000 Allied casualties.
0:19:25 > 0:19:29And the army on the Western front had almost run out of shells at one point
0:19:29 > 0:19:32while Kitchener was in charge of munitions,
0:19:32 > 0:19:35so he had lost some influential friends,
0:19:35 > 0:19:39but had he made some murderous enemies?
0:19:39 > 0:19:41The fame he'd won in South Africa during the Boer War,
0:19:41 > 0:19:46the violence of his death and the fact his body wasn't recovered
0:19:46 > 0:19:48gave rise to conspiracy theories.
0:19:50 > 0:19:53I'm going to run three of them past Nick.
0:19:53 > 0:19:56Firstly, had Kitchener's misconduct in the war,
0:19:56 > 0:19:59so infuriated ministers like Lloyd George
0:19:59 > 0:20:03that his ship was deliberately sent into waters they knew were mined?
0:20:03 > 0:20:06The key thing is they've already fired him.
0:20:06 > 0:20:09In December 1915, he loses the operational control of the army.
0:20:09 > 0:20:12He's got no control over the battlefield.
0:20:12 > 0:20:15There's absolutely no need for the government to have him murdered.
0:20:15 > 0:20:16OK. We can put that one in the bin.
0:20:16 > 0:20:19Absolutely. In it goes.
0:20:19 > 0:20:23This is a particular favourite of mine, without a doubt.
0:20:23 > 0:20:26That Lord Kitchener goes to Russia
0:20:26 > 0:20:29and there, turns himself into a chap called Joseph Stalin.
0:20:29 > 0:20:31There's a moustache thing going on.
0:20:31 > 0:20:34I don't think we should even dignify it with a response.
0:20:34 > 0:20:36It's clearly ridiculous.
0:20:36 > 0:20:38What a shame. What a movie it would make!
0:20:38 > 0:20:42I suppose in some ways this would possibly be the most credible,
0:20:42 > 0:20:45the legendary "spy", Fritz,
0:20:45 > 0:20:49a South African, embittered towards Kitchener particularly,
0:20:49 > 0:20:55and the British in general because his mother and sister died during the Boer War.
0:20:55 > 0:20:58That this man had sworn vengeance and managed to get aboard the Hampshire,
0:20:58 > 0:21:00caused the explosion and lived to tell the tale.
0:21:00 > 0:21:04It's the hardest one to disprove, I'll give you that.
0:21:04 > 0:21:07He wrote a memoir, obviously saying that he did it.
0:21:07 > 0:21:10His claim that he gets on the ship and sabotages the ship
0:21:10 > 0:21:13and swims away and joins a submarine and gets away with it,
0:21:13 > 0:21:16when so many men were drowning in such appalling weather
0:21:16 > 0:21:18is really, really hard to believe.
0:21:18 > 0:21:20I think we have to put Fritz in.
0:21:20 > 0:21:22Done.
0:21:25 > 0:21:30The people of Orkney still live with the loss of HMS Hampshire.
0:21:30 > 0:21:34They tend the cemetery of sailors claimed by the sea.
0:21:36 > 0:21:38Men the locals couldn't save.
0:21:42 > 0:21:46100 years on, what are we to make of the curious case
0:21:46 > 0:21:49of the death of Lord Kitchener?
0:21:49 > 0:21:54I can't help feeling that this sad episode has been hijacked
0:21:54 > 0:21:56by the conspiracy theorists.
0:21:56 > 0:22:00This isn't about the death of a national hero, mysterious or otherwise.
0:22:00 > 0:22:02It's about a tragedy.
0:22:02 > 0:22:05It's the loss of over 600 lives,
0:22:05 > 0:22:09and the scars that remain on an island community that was unable to help.
0:22:14 > 0:22:17One thing that unites us across these isles
0:22:17 > 0:22:19is that we're all islanders,
0:22:19 > 0:22:24whether we live on rocks in the sea that are very large or very small.
0:22:24 > 0:22:27Maybe the joy of coming to the coast is that here,
0:22:27 > 0:22:32we can still experience the very essence of our island story.
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