An t-Eilean (The Island) – the UK’s first ever high-end gaelic drama series is a tense, twisting story of lies, loss and long-buried secrets set against the elemental backdrop of the Western Isles of Scotland
An t-Eilean (The Island) – the UK’s first ever high-end gaelic drama series is a tense, twisting story of lies, loss and long-buried secrets set against the elemental backdrop of the Western Isles of Scotland.
Sorcha Groundsell (His Dark Materials, Shetland, The Innocents) plays Kat Crichton a young Family Liaison Officer, who is assigned by her boss, DCI Ahmed Halim (Sagar Radia – Industry) to a murder investigation on Lewis and Harris, islands from which she fled ten years previously.
The brutal slaying of the wife of local tycoon Sir Douglas Maclean (Iain Macrae – Bannan), at a remote island mansion, at first seems to be part of a botched burglary. But Kat has past history with Sir Douglas and his wealthy but deeply dysfunctional family, and is convinced that, despite having been wounded in the attack himself, the self-made millionaire must somehow be implicated.
Drawn into the tangled web of the Maclean family, with their four grown children, Eilidh (Sinéad MacInnes – Outlander), Calum (Andrew Macinnes), Sìne (Meredith Brook – Bannan) and Ruaraidh (Sam James Smith), Kat must confront her own past – travelling back in time to a lavish New Year party a decade previously where the dark roots of the mystery seem to lie. Soon she is involved a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with Sir Douglas as she struggles both to bring the killer to justice and to exorcise her own personal demons.
For Kat, the return to the island brings home an inescapable truth – on an island an enemy is forever…
Published: January 7, 2025 — An t-Eilean (The Island) is funded by MG ALBA, All3Media International, Screen Scotland and Black Camel Pictures.
An t-Eilean (The Island) – 4 x 50 minutes – is a Black Camel Pictures production for BBC ALBA, and BBC iPlayer, in association with All3Media International. Written by Nicholas Osborne and Patsi Mackenzie, and directed by Tom Sullivan (Arracht), the series is Executive Produced by Arabella Page Croft and Nicole Fitzpatrick and series produced by Kieran Parker and Bjorn Hanson for BAFTA award-winning Black Camel Pictures. Music is by award-winning Icelandic composer Biggi Hilmars. The Commissioning Editor for BBC ALBA is Bill Macleod. The series is being distributed globally by All3Media International, and development of the project was supported by MG ALBA and Screen Scotland.
Source
BBC iPlayer
