Trusadh (Compelling Stories)

BBC Alba HD

10:00 PM to 11:00 PM

Tuesday 1 October

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Catriona Lexy Campbell takes a trip across the country to unearth the hidden sexual history of the Gaels. She meets Peter Mackay, who co-authored the first collection of obscene and transgressive verse in Gaelic, The Little Blue Book. With Peter, she views the oldest erotic verse in the Gaelic language and learns about the colourful characters that created them. At the University of St Andrews, Catriona takes a look at the scandalous archive from the 18th-century gentleman’s club, started by a Gael and with some shocking attitudes to sex, The Beggar’s Benison. In the Isle of Skye, she meets singer and folklorist Anne Martin to find out how women dealt with sex, and its accompanying dangers - in song