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ATM: Young girls singing to the seals?
The Foxy Lady and I were reminiscing recently about great TV moments we'd love to see again, and we both came up with the same televisual memory, but neither of us can place it, either in time or in its programmatic context.
We are blithering in our frustration.
Can the Massive recall having seen a drama, set in Scotland we think (probably in the Hebrides or Shetlands or similar), which involved a family with two or three young daughters or female cousins who sang to seals?
At the remembered point in the yarn (we've no idea what it was about anymore) the girls sit on a wall or on rocks near the shore and sing to the local seals, who appear bobbing in the water not far out.
It was a magical, transcendent moment that charmed our socks off, and we'd like to see it again....
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Our future king
a quick google threw this up - not your programme, but in the ballpark:
Prince Charles has revealed that he used to sing to seals as a child with his grandmother near her Highland home.
He recalled memories of visiting Castle of Mey in Caithness during an interview for next Sunday's Songs of Praise.
The prince describes how he, the Queen Mother and his sister Princess Anne would sing Over the Sea to Skye to the animals from the cliff tops.
He also told the BBC programme: "One of the things that is so special to me is the connection with my grandmother".
He told presenter Sally Magnusson that for years they would travel up the west coast in Britannia and end up in Scrabster.
"We came here for lunch and always used to go for a potter on the beach, " he said.
"And my grandmother, I've never forgotten, when we were small my sister and I, she used to take us down, stand on the cliff there and we'd sing to the seals.
"It was absolutely riveting, we'd sing 'Over the Sea to Skye' and it was very interesting, these heads would bob up and they'd start coming closer."
okay, does this ring any bells?
full article here: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article567260.ece
That's tantalisingly familiar...
What we can't remember is whether the sequence that charmed us was part of a documentary, or part of a drama. We think it was the latter, but we can't be completely sure about that.
We are sure that there were two or three girls involved in the piece we remember, and that we remember them as being related in some way.
This is driving us nuts!
Documentary?
I can't offer any solid information, so don't get your hopes up, but I remember seeing a daytime programme some years ago with a feature about a family who lived on a Sottish Island.
Two things stand out in my memory: one of the daughters' grammatical exactness when she referred to sunny days, 'Of which we have about 3 a year'; and another sequence where the wo girls ran to some rocks by a beach and sang to the seals in the bay. It was very nicely cut, with the girls facing in one direction as they sang and cutaways of the seals facing the other. The girls' singing was lovely, and the seals really did seem to be listening and enjoying.
That sounds like it.
That's good progress, as you've confirmed my suspicion that it was a documentary rather than a drama, and the additional information that it was broadcast during the day may help to track it down.
Many thanks.