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An eccentric man heads into the Scottish Highlands to search for Bonnie Prince Charlie's long lost golden hoard.
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00:00:24We're not supposed to be afraid of death.
00:00:33I am.
00:01:04We're not supposed to be afraid of death.
00:01:27What happened to life?
00:01:40You lazy man.
00:01:52Are you a coward?
00:02:04Why didn't you do more?
00:02:24Well, when he was a little boy and he was asked what he wanted to do when he grew up,
00:02:27he said he wanted to be either a parson or a clown.
00:02:36He's very clever and I often think to myself, this is absolutely crazy.
00:02:41Here you are without the halfpenny to your name and yet, you know, you want to be one of these
00:02:46people running the country instead of the daft lot we've got now.
00:02:52But he wouldn't want to do that.
00:02:56But he's capable of extraordinary things.
00:03:00He is an extraordinary person.
00:03:12I've known Garnet for more than 30 years.
00:03:16He's an unusual character.
00:03:19He's highly talented in many directions.
00:03:24But he's also a sort of rather romantic idealist.
00:03:29He embarks on so many things which are interesting and valuable but really never give him any money.
00:03:36He's always been short of money.
00:03:39Painfully short on occasion.
00:03:41I mean recently he got interested in Houdini.
00:03:46And I helped him make a part for this box, this sort of trunk that he was going to climb
00:03:53into.
00:03:54And then he's got to get out of.
00:03:55It's all about rehearsal.
00:03:57Well, I'm able to lay panels up.
00:04:01Lay over side.
00:04:03They've all got tremendous potential but they don't necessarily all sort of materialise into anything.
00:04:09And Garnet has always sort of struggled a bit like that.
00:04:11I've got not only this, but also the mind reading of course.
00:04:17And walking through a brick wall.
00:04:24It's when he's working on his own that everything runs out of steam.
00:04:30Ultimately it always does.
00:04:35I'm going to have to give me a hand.
00:04:49It's when he's working on a brick wall.
00:04:51Rumba ha, that's how we go.
00:04:54Rumba ha, rum ba, rum ba, rum, ba.
00:04:56Everyone knows how we are.
00:04:58Leading on the lambo's at the corner of the street.
00:05:02There may be tear drops to share.
00:05:06And it's only that you'll never kiss the girl.
00:05:09Look me more, hold your hand now.
00:05:12I'll be laugsy more.
00:05:14Here we go.
00:05:22I still don't, I still don't have a wife or children of my own.
00:05:30What could I offer a woman? I can't really set up a household. I couldn't afford to pay
00:05:35a mortgage or run a car. I don't even drive a car.
00:05:44I suppose that sense of ultimate intimacy and union with somebody is still something
00:05:54that a part of me yearns for and will do all my life, whatever happens.
00:06:09I don't care, I don't care.
00:06:11That's fine, I say.
00:06:13I don't care, that's fine, I say.
00:06:38About 20 years ago, I visited the Highlands for the first time, in search of what, I don't
00:06:46know. I loved the idea of the solitude and the isolation.
00:07:05I didn't have a tent and I didn't have a sleeping bag. All I had really in the way of
00:07:13provisions
00:07:13was two fruit loaves and 60 Embassy No. 1. I'd made the mistake of assuming that the numbers
00:07:27on the contour lines refer to feet, whereas in fact they refer to meters. So I was somewhat
00:07:34out in my calculations. Help! And I found myself slipping and sliding and tumbling and eventually
00:07:44I more or less rolled onto a tiny little section of beach. And wedged in the rock, standing perpendicularly,
00:07:56was this, er, curious staff. It's this. The, er, the mysterious staff of Gullvein, I call it.
00:08:14But this staff has haunted me for all these years.
00:08:33This is where I went 20 years ago. And that's where I found the staff.
00:08:37Yeah. Was it hidden or...? It was wedged in the bank of the stream, on the far side of the
00:08:42stream.
00:08:43It's wedged in the rock. Yeah. I had to get into the stream and wade through the water in order
00:08:48to get this thing. You found it out. It is very, very strange, yes.
00:09:08In 1746, two ships arrived on the west coast of Scotland, bearing a cargo of gold.
00:09:1840,000 golden coins. This money was intended as a war chest for Bonnie Prince Charlie,
00:09:27who wanted to regain the throne on behalf of the Stuart Line, and who had a lot of supporters,
00:09:34especially in Scotland. But by the time the money arrived, Bonnie Prince Charlie
00:09:43and his Highland army had already been defeated at the Battle of Culloden.
00:09:52And so the money was carried into the Highlands, and hidden, somewhere on the shores of Loch Arcaig.
00:10:07Which is exactly where I found myself stranded 20 years ago.
00:10:16Apparently, they buried the gold under a rock in a rivulet.
00:10:25Well, I found the staff wedged into a rock in a small rivulet.
00:10:36Maybe the staff that I found in the stream, in fact, is a marker for the position of the gold.
00:10:44What I want to do is to go back up there and have a look.
00:10:49At a conservative estimate, it would be worth something in the order of one billion pounds.
00:10:58He is actually challenging the possibility of this gold being there.
00:11:03He's had that stick all these years, and basically the story is based around the discovery of that,
00:11:10and everything that it means.
00:11:24What I need to do, I need you to put your dose of steroid up.
00:11:28I don't think you're having enough steroid.
00:11:30And that means to go to six tablets once a day, which is 30 milligrams.
00:11:3530, okay.
00:11:36Any other problems? No?
00:11:38No, no, not really.
00:11:40Well, except for being old.
00:11:42Well, that, unfortunately, is not something we're very good at treating for the National Health.
00:11:46I should be 90 this month.
00:11:47I know, what a big birthday coming up, haven't you?
00:11:50That's exciting.
00:11:50We'll have to get you a bit better for that.
00:11:52Same day as the Queen.
00:11:53Isn't she lucky to share my birthday?
00:11:55Isn't that a treat?
00:12:21It has been very frustrating for me for the past few years,
00:12:25because if I'm going to make a reasonable job of looking after my mum,
00:12:30that means I've got to be around the place,
00:12:33and I've got to, you know, sort of dance to whatever tune is necessary,
00:12:38the doctor's visits and all the tablets and all this sort of thing.
00:12:44No sooner have I done one thing than, lo and behold, it's time to do another one.
00:12:52Time's going by, and here I am just sort of stuck in this nowhere land, this limbo.
00:13:26I'm afraid there's no tartare sauce.
00:13:35During the war, a fellow student was Lucian Freud.
00:13:42He tried to seduce me avidly when I was 19,
00:13:48and was very annoyed when I wouldn't succumb.
00:13:58What else have I done?
00:14:03Back in the 70s, I made up action songs and singing games for children.
00:14:10One of these songs, it's gone worldwide.
00:14:14It's sung all over the world by children.
00:14:17When all the cows were sleeping, and the sun had gone to bed,
00:14:24up jumped the scarecrow, and this is what he said,
00:14:27I'm a dingle-down scarecrow with a flippy floppy hat,
00:14:31and I shake my hands like this, and I shake my feet like that.
00:14:36When all the hens were roosting, and the moon behind a cloud,
00:14:42up jumped the scarecrow and shouted very loud,
00:14:46I'm a dingle-dangle scarecrow with a flippy floppy hat,
00:14:49and I shake my hands like this, and I shake my feet like that.
00:15:04Well, thinking this through, there's quite a lot of costs involved.
00:15:09I'm going to need a boat, obviously,
00:15:14and there's got to be a vehicle to tow the boat,
00:15:17or take the boat up there, and maybe metal detectors,
00:15:22life jackets, I don't know what else.
00:15:26It's all adding up to quite a bit of money that I haven't really got.
00:15:30I could ask my mum for some money, I suppose,
00:15:32but I don't really want to do that.
00:15:37Well, we'll just have to see.
00:15:44So, we'll go down here and join Joe,
00:15:47who is doing some extra preparation on the boat here.
00:15:50Right.
00:15:52OK. It's a bit wibbly-wobbly, but...
00:15:54It's all right, isn't it?
00:15:55Yeah.
00:15:56A nice, firm grip, and up.
00:15:59It doesn't feel too bad.
00:16:02For a second or two.
00:16:03Yeah.
00:16:07OK.
00:16:12OK.
00:16:13Looks magnificent, doesn't it?
00:16:15Yeah.
00:16:16Right.
00:16:17Well, I've known Anne.
00:16:19Anne's a bit older than me, so...
00:16:24She's maybe 62 or something.
00:16:27I'm 64 now, so I was about 20, 24 when I met him.
00:16:31Well, 25, 30...
00:16:32Well, it's about 35 years, something like that.
00:16:34No, 40 years.
00:16:39We'll just start off with the absolute basic turn it on.
00:16:49He's one of the most imaginative, exciting people that I've ever met.
00:16:55I'll put it in there.
00:16:59It's not very well hidden.
00:17:01Oh, well, I'll hide it more of it.
00:17:07But he has such high ideals.
00:17:09Yeah, straight on it.
00:17:10Yeah, straight on it.
00:17:11Yeah, straight on it.
00:17:12It's quite hard to live up to the sort of things that he would like a woman to be, I
00:17:20think.
00:17:23Yeah.
00:17:24I'm just going to hammer this in.
00:17:25And I'll make Garland sweep.
00:17:27He hasn't seen where I'm putting it.
00:17:38There.
00:17:41Look at Garland.
00:17:43I'm sorry, he's just pulling faces.
00:17:50Oh, there.
00:17:51There it is.
00:17:52There it is.
00:17:52Yeah, well done.
00:17:53That's one of the...
00:17:54Something...
00:17:57Have a fight tonight.
00:18:25I've developed a little bit of a love interest, you might say.
00:18:30I don't know.
00:18:31Or I might have done, anyway.
00:18:35With respect to...
00:18:37To Jilly who plays the piano in the Cairndall.
00:18:44And I wasn't expecting that.
00:18:47And she said,
00:18:49Oh, have you ever tiled a bathroom?
00:18:53And I said, yes.
00:18:56So, erm...
00:18:57You know, we're kind of talking about maybe tiling her a bathroom, which I'd like to do.
00:19:18There's a part of me that wants to be in love.
00:19:25Erm...
00:19:25And that's part of my nature.
00:19:27I suppose I want to be in love.
00:19:29And I can't...
00:19:30I can't stop it any more than I can start it.
00:19:34I can't start it any more than I can stop it.
00:19:45Well, we're just on our way down to the Clock House Caf, which is near the station, in order to
00:19:50meet Jilly.
00:19:51Er, Jilly?
00:20:02Er...
00:20:02Inbox 100 message...
00:20:05Hang on, here we go.
00:20:08Oh, Garnet.
00:20:09I'm so sorry, I completely forgot.
00:20:19Er...
00:20:20Er...
00:20:20Well, we're going to the cafe, and, er...
00:20:23Sandra Tech's saying, does that mean you're not coming today at all?
00:20:27Which...
00:20:28Which it implies, because...
00:20:31I mean, that's all she says.
00:20:33There's one sort of exclamation marks, and...
00:20:35Four O's in so...
00:20:38Sorry.
00:21:05I seem to have been asleep, really.
00:21:09You know, I've been waiting for something to...
00:21:12Come my way...
00:21:14That never really has.
00:21:18If the wanting don't do ya...
00:21:24Then the waiting...
00:21:26Sure will...
00:21:29Cause the bottom...
00:21:31Does drop out...
00:21:34If you're hoping...
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00:21:49Ideals...
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00:21:52To go...
00:21:56I'm waiting for...
00:22:00A little...
00:22:02I'm waiting for...
00:22:15A little...
00:22:23Life is short...
00:22:25Before you know it...
00:22:26Turn around...
00:22:28And you're tiny...
00:22:30Turn around and you'll grow...
00:22:37Good God...
00:22:37If I don't get on with something now...
00:22:39The whole of life will have...
00:22:40Flitted past...
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00:22:51Who...
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00:23:14Twenty years ago, when I found the staff in the stream, no one knew where I was.
00:23:25I had no food or shelter.
00:23:30I was lost.
00:23:35I lay down near the stream and resigned myself to die.
00:23:47But I had no fear.
00:24:03Well, for the purposes of this expedition, I'm obviously going to need a vehicle and stuff like that, you know,
00:24:11which are fairly expensive things.
00:24:13I did have a fellow stood by who was going to put up some money, but he dropped out.
00:24:19So it's getting a little bit difficult at the moment.
00:24:23So I suppose the point is, would it be okay?
00:24:27Yes, yes, yes.
00:24:31I mean, I could repay it, I guess, you know, when I've managed to sell the things and so on.
00:24:36Yes, yes.
00:24:37That's okay.
00:24:38That's fine.
00:24:39Yes.
00:24:41Okay.
00:24:41That's really good.
00:24:51Yeah, here he is.
00:24:53This is it.
00:24:55How about that?
00:25:05I know.
00:25:06This is it.
00:25:08It's four wheel drive.
00:25:10Yeah.
00:25:10It's all over.
00:25:11Good tyres.
00:25:13He says it's been reliable.
00:25:14He says it's one lady owner.
00:25:16I'm not too sure about that.
00:25:18Oh.
00:25:18How about that?
00:25:20The old Glandy.
00:25:21The old Glandy.
00:25:21I'd love to drive it.
00:25:23Oh, you've managed to lock the keys in somehow.
00:25:26That's exactly what I've managed to do.
00:25:29Are all the keys on that keyring?
00:25:31Yes.
00:25:32Check that door.
00:25:35Oh, that's all right.
00:25:35Oh, my God.
00:25:37Oh, my God.
00:25:39All the best, mate.
00:25:41Okay.
00:25:41I'm sure I'll get you there.
00:25:42Okay, brilliant.
00:25:44Thanks again.
00:25:44You're welcome.
00:25:45All the best.
00:25:49We're going to the remotest part of the remotest place in the whole of Europe.
00:25:56It could, by some strange chance, be in a sort of virgin opportunity that has merely been overlooked over years
00:26:09and years and years.
00:26:10I mean, he spells it out.
00:26:11He spells it out to him.
00:26:12He's marked on the map, isn't he?
00:26:15Now, what we're going to do today is test the boat here.
00:26:24That's it.
00:26:43She's had a bit of a knock already.
00:26:53I've connected.
00:26:55Please accept this gift of the blood of the vomit.
00:27:12I think it really picked up your head.
00:27:14This road is driven skid right in half guys.
00:27:16It was possible to have you hadn't used to me.
00:27:17This was definitely admittedly worked all up.
00:27:17I couldn't do anything anytime soon.
00:27:21I did not do anything, but I think that's really remarkable because it does now and I didn't look for
00:27:29creativity.
00:27:30Coming up next time, maybe different types of people, theọn and your mother spody!
00:27:42Come on, Doug, what's up there?
00:28:04Well, this will be the helium balloon.
00:28:11Maybe that's the only size you can get.
00:28:26Awkward.
00:28:28Need to put that in a vise, really.
00:28:30That's better.
00:28:44It will go over.
00:28:54So now it's a question of retracing my steps.
00:28:59I've got to get back precisely to that point on the stream where I found the staff before.
00:29:05I know I came in through here somehow and over this mountain range here.
00:29:16The question is exactly where.
00:29:19This is the difficult part.
00:29:22Now, one odd thing I do remember is that when I was halfway up the mountain, down below on the
00:29:30flat, I could see a mysterious structure probably made of stone.
00:29:40It had a very, very distinctive shape, something like this.
00:29:48A straight line broken by a circle.
00:29:51Now, press and hold the button until the indicators turn on.
00:29:56So, come on.
00:29:58I guess it's working.
00:29:59Yeah.
00:30:00Hello.
00:30:01Hello.
00:30:01Okay.
00:30:04So, if I can find this, then I think I can use it as a guide, as a pointer towards
00:30:12the pass that leads up and over the mountain, precisely to that point on the stream.
00:30:23And so I've got to, I don't know, I've got to figure out a way of rediscovering this, identifying this
00:30:34shape, which of course is most clearly visible or distinctive from the air, from above.
00:31:05That's what I'm missing.
00:31:06Sorry, I'm not missing.
00:31:06I'm missing the train in the rain.
00:31:07My mum has augling.
00:31:08I remember the police, saying...
00:31:08...and, it's killing me now.
00:31:08I remember everything.
00:31:09No, I remember everything.
00:31:09Your life, I was missing the fountains.
00:31:10Yes, my mum, they used to be the fountains, and that's your mum.
00:31:10Your wife, you were able to come to the place.
00:31:10I remember the fountains and the fountains.
00:31:12You remember everything, right?
00:31:13I didn't wonder if somebody else was missing.
00:31:18My mum, she collapsed and she's, yeah, she's in hospital at the moment, which is, which
00:31:36worries me deeply really because, I mean they keep talking about sending her back home and
00:31:43maybe they will, or maybe they won't. And I've just got a feeling that maybe she won't come
00:31:49home now. I don't know, I don't know, I don't know how to, I don't know how to cope with
00:31:56it, really.
00:32:13In some churches where there are sort of murals of medieval depictions of hell and it shows
00:32:21all these little demons poking people with pitchforks. That's a bit what it feels like.
00:32:36I don't feel very old, I feel about 40 inside my head. You know, you suddenly look at your
00:32:42arms and you think, oh my god, it was an old person's hand. It just, you know, I find it
00:32:49shocking really, when I look at myself. I have very vivid dreams and I quite often dream
00:32:59that I'm much younger. I dream that I can run and dance and swim and do all those things.
00:33:31I'll stop for a minute. I'll get my head together.
00:33:50I'm very conflicted about the way I feel about it. I have to say I'm conflicted. Sometimes
00:33:55I just feel annoyed by it. I feel ground to dust by it. I really do. And I think when
00:34:06will this ever end? When will I be free? Sometimes I find myself thinking, for God's sake, why
00:34:19don't you just die? You bastard, you shouldn't think that at all. Bless her, let her keep going
00:34:32as long as she possibly can.
00:35:29All right. I just...
00:35:31Take it easy for a while.
00:35:57I've often thought, you know, my poor mum...
00:36:01...she must wonder where I'm going, what I'm doing.
00:36:05I don't know what she might ideally have wanted for me, I don't know.
00:36:12But whatever it was, I'll never quite be that.
00:36:18Lots of people have these ambitious ideas.
00:36:21We all do, really, and we talk about it because it's a nice idea.
00:36:26But will it ever happen? Does it ever happen?
00:36:31Of all the things I've nearly done, there's many, many, many things that I've nearly done but not.
00:36:38Show me a man who hasn't.
00:36:50But, erm, hopefully there's still time yet for me to do a little bit of something with what's left of,
00:36:56you know, with what's left of life.
00:37:02Well, while I'm away, the pages will probably do more than is necessary.
00:37:09They'll be rushing it out with food and cups of tea and things like that.
00:37:13I'm sure they will, yes.
00:37:15Yes, and Anne.
00:37:16And Anne will show her face.
00:37:18Yes.
00:37:19Erm, so I think that, I think it should be fine.
00:37:23Touch wood.
00:37:25So, erm, I think it should be okay.
00:37:28I mean, I was worried, you know, that maybe...
00:37:32Well, I don't know.
00:37:35Yeah.
00:37:38Well, that sort of sounds alright anyway.
00:37:40Yeah, it, it, it, well, yeah.
00:37:47Yeah.
00:38:13I'll do the door.
00:38:45Well, I hope you find something, whatever it is.
00:38:52If it's not gold, it's his heart's desire.
00:39:18I'll do the door.
00:39:25I hope I've carried all my life, but right now I'm ready to believe.
00:39:34You know my breath spins me out in circles.
00:39:41It's high time for living out this dream.
00:39:46You know my waiting's left my heart in shackles.
00:39:53But oh, I'm ready to believe.
00:40:07Ready to believe.
00:40:11Ready to believe.
00:40:12Ready to believe.
00:40:21Ready to believe.
00:40:29Ready to believe.
00:40:31Ready to believe.
00:40:52Ready to believe.
00:41:12Beautiful.
00:41:13So, look over there.
00:41:16That's so beautiful.
00:41:16It's beyond description or belief.
00:41:45That's so beautiful.
00:41:45That's so beautiful.
00:41:45That's so beautiful.
00:41:54That's so beautiful.
00:41:58That's so beautiful.
00:42:02That's so beautiful.
00:42:03That's so beautiful.
00:42:17That's so beautiful.
00:42:20It's beautiful.
00:42:24That's so beautiful.
00:42:25Let's go.
00:42:57Well, I've never been here, but, I mean, it is just stunning.
00:43:01It's amazing.
00:43:02I mean, I've never seen anything like it.
00:43:07Everywhere you turn, there's a mountain, there's water, there's wildlife.
00:43:14It's a dream place.
00:43:51It's a dream place.
00:43:57Well, apparently Charles did bring some gold with him, there's a bit of a story that one
00:44:04of Rob Roy's sons was one of the ones who was also interested with it, whether the gold
00:44:09exists or not, apparently it's buried along some place along the banks of the Walk Arcaig.
00:44:17Nobody's ever found it, what's the chances of finding it?
00:44:21There is also a rumour that it might be up in Glenpean, in the rough bounds of Moidat.
00:44:28It's supposed to be another cache at Bannockburn, near Bannockburn House, there's supposed to
00:44:33be another treasure chest buried, but that's probably under the motorway now.
00:44:46My idea is that the rock in the stream where I found the staff all those years ago might
00:44:56conceal some sort of underwater cave or cavern or hollow in the riverbank, something like that.
00:45:05Yes.
00:45:06That's where you think the gold is buried?
00:45:08Yes.
00:45:10Yes.
00:45:13Yes.
00:45:23Yes.
00:45:26Yes.
00:45:29Yes.
00:45:29Yes.
00:45:29Yes.
00:46:01Now it's quite a crucial moment. On the test last time the propeller left us down and we've
00:46:10mended it, but it hasn't had another test. So this is the key moment that boat has got
00:46:15to work.
00:46:52It's got a few.
00:47:21I was brought up mainly by my mum and by my grandmother, her mother, because my parents
00:47:29split up when I was about 18 months old. My dad, he in fact ran off with the woman, I
00:47:43think
00:47:43next door, but one on the other side of the road or something, somebody very close by.
00:47:56I was 32, I think, 32. I went round to his house, I tracked him down and he said to
00:48:09me,
00:48:10who are you? I don't know what a father is, really. I don't know what a father's supposed
00:48:18to be. That's probably one of the reasons why I haven't had children myself. Where there
00:48:26should be a dad, there's just a sort of dad-shaped hole.
00:48:58I dealt with him or whatever.
00:49:23I feel very interested in regards to this gear,LI dont you have
00:49:44I think I would have found it very difficult to stay with Garnet all that time and I can't
00:49:51really imagine what life would have been like all these years we were you know
00:50:02very close for a total of seven years something like that we were together about
00:50:10eight years you know she'd stay with me and I'd stay with her a lot of fun you
00:50:16know because he was always so exciting has such good ideas about things and we
00:50:19go off on adventures and we've been on holiday together we went to the Red Sea you
00:50:27know we take the train with our bicycles and we go painting for the day and the
00:50:31Sinai Desert and places like that and you know it was great fun he's he's hard to
00:50:37to be with but also he's very exciting to be with
00:50:45and she couldn't afford to you know wait around and I'd I don't know I had other
00:50:50ideas I thought I don't know what I thought
00:50:58it's hard for me to have found out that you know my relationships that I've
00:51:03perceived when I was in my thirties and so forth that wonderful as they were and
00:51:11painful as they were what did it amount to you know what's left
00:51:22after garlic and I split up I I had children two children with somebody else yeah which is hard
00:51:30for me because I really wanted to have children with garlic you can cut that out
00:51:34you know what you didn't want no
00:52:06I just don't know what you said
00:52:09so
00:52:09you
00:52:09you
00:52:09you
00:52:09you
00:52:33you
00:52:33you
00:52:33you
00:53:02you
00:53:02you
00:53:02you
00:53:02okay
00:53:09you
00:53:39you
00:54:08you
00:54:18you
00:54:20you
00:54:39you
00:54:48you
00:54:54you
00:54:56you
00:54:58you
00:55:12Oh, my God.
00:55:30Oh, my God.
00:56:23So, Garnet starts on this journey 20 years ago.
00:56:32And it's been simmering in his mind ever since.
00:56:42What has really been going through his mind all those years?
00:56:54How is he going to react when he actually sort of approaches that area where he sort of nearly
00:56:59lost his life?
00:57:07Because in the end, this is what the whole thing's all about.
00:57:10The story of Bonnie Pins Charlie, the treasure and everything suddenly evaporates.
00:57:29We'll just have to see what happens.
00:57:38Wow, look at that.
00:57:43It's so beautiful.
00:57:46That's the mouth of the river.
00:57:48Incredible.
00:57:52When I came down the mountainside when I was here 20 years ago, I came down this way.
00:57:58But that is definitely where I came down and found myself stranded in this tiny cove.
00:58:03And I'm just thinking here, you know, how amazing that I was picked up from that cove.
00:58:10There's nobody here.
00:58:12A similar time of the year.
00:58:14I could have, you know, I could have waited there forever and a day and nobody would have
00:58:21come.
00:58:23Not a soul.
00:58:25Not a soul.
00:58:28Not a soul.
00:58:30As far as the eye can see.
00:58:32It's amazing.
00:58:34As far as the eye can see.
00:58:35As far as the eye can see.
00:58:35Nobody.
00:58:40I can see down there the mouth of the stream.
00:58:44A stream.
00:58:44It must be the stream.
00:58:46I never saw it before, but that's going to run up this way through the Glen underneath
00:58:51the footbridge.
00:58:52And it's somewhere on the other side of that footbridge that I found the mysterious staff
00:58:57of Gullvayne.
00:58:59Whatever that may mean.
00:59:02It's incredible.
00:59:04To be alive.
00:59:05To be alive now here in this incredible place.
00:59:08After all these years.
00:59:09Still alive.
00:59:10Still alive.
00:59:11It's unbelievable.
00:59:15Maybe it's all just a, maybe all this, this moment, the whole thing is just one beautiful
00:59:20illusion.
00:59:21Maybe I'll wake up tomorrow and it'll all be gone.
00:59:29Well, it will be gone soon enough.
00:59:32Whether it's an illusion or not.
01:00:00Whether it's an illusion or not.
01:00:01Whether it's an illusion or not.
01:00:14When I came here twenty years ago, my love was death in the face.
01:00:20dear god i was lucky to get away with my life
01:00:25i was 38 i suppose and maybe it was i don't know maybe it was the last official day of
01:00:33my youth or
01:00:34something i don't know i'm 58 now
01:00:41you know time has stood still in this place well maybe time has stood still for me
01:01:11oh what a day what a day
01:01:17and it's my birthday too so happy birthday to me
01:01:32we're up above the clouds up above the clouds
01:01:39wow
01:01:45down there where the mists are now in the wood in the base of the glen that's where i found
01:01:50the
01:01:51the mysterious staff
01:02:07we come down from the mountain in the morning before we actually enter the glen
01:02:14and that's going to be a key moment
01:02:39and then we go into that place that i've been waiting to to return to for all these years
01:02:49i'm i'm i can't wait
01:03:11it's the same place the bridge is different it's just that the bridge looks different
01:03:17everything else is it is the same so i'm here
01:03:25i'm here for you my hand
01:04:00i'm here for you my hand
01:04:08i think it's my first meeting
01:08:50It's the way it is.
01:08:53I mean, you know, you say sorry to people.
01:08:58You say sorry to God, you know.
01:09:00I'm sorry, God.
01:09:04I wasted my life.
01:09:08What's he gonna think of that?
01:09:20Perhaps, you know, this is my way of...
01:09:25It's my way of saying sorry.
01:09:30A love letter from me to you, the people that love me.
01:09:37Something to make you proud of me, if you can be.
01:09:43You know, can't make up for all the time that's been lost,
01:09:47but it's something.
01:10:25I was like, this is a big deal.
01:10:27No.
01:10:34Oh, my God.
01:10:58Let's go.
01:11:28Let's go.
01:12:09Let's go.
01:12:12Let's go.
01:12:19Gold isn't just stuff that you find in the ground or in a box marked X on a map.
01:12:28You know, your life consists a lot of the time in thinking about the past and your place in it
01:12:37and the friends you had.
01:12:44And you gather up fragments of gold from those.
01:12:50Gold dust.
01:12:51Gold dust.
01:12:54Gold dust.
01:12:55Gold dust.
01:12:56Gold dust.
01:12:59Gold dust.
01:13:08Gold dust.
01:13:11Gold dust.
01:13:13Gold dust.
01:13:14Gold dust.
01:13:16Gold dust.
01:13:17Gold dust.
01:13:36My, my, what a pleasure.
01:13:39Thank you, world.
01:14:04Out of the go of all the things I nearly done, I nearly met the Arga card, I nearly buzzed
01:14:12the southern piers with Avis in his death machine, I nearly traversed across the desert
01:14:19on a camel with a Bedouin, I nearly painted golden towers, I nearly practised the guitar
01:14:26for hours, I nearly saw the meaning of her suffering soul, I nearly stormed the pitch
01:14:37and scored a goal, I nearly entered my account on time, I nearly was an honest man.
01:14:49Out of the things I nearly done, when all that's nearly done is through, what's done,
01:14:54what isn't, when the bell has rung, there is nothing left to nearly do.
01:15:01If I can't grasp a late degree, I'll ever say, it was for lack of loving thee.
01:15:10So let my heart be open and my way be true, and let me put aside the things I nearly
01:15:17done,
01:15:18and bring me daily closer to the things that I do do.
01:15:30Well, you did write that, and I think it's always a good poem, Garland.
01:15:51Until the end, the very end.
01:16:00It's not over until the end.
01:16:06You can make believe, or you can just pretend.
01:16:15But when the chances arise, you will see, things are gonna work out rather differently.
01:16:22For you and me, it's not over till the end.
01:16:31Some say I'm acting in the same warfare, but I quite politely say la vie.
01:16:39I've been getting ready almost all my life, so now I'm finally on my feet.
01:16:46Now and then, every now and then, I ask all around, and wonder aloud, what could have been?
01:17:02Well, I may be a dreamer waiting by the phone, staring out the window at a life unknown.
01:17:10But my dear friends, it's not over till the end.
01:17:24The inside story of Ukrainian security services staging the death of a Russian journalist.
01:17:30Fake news? And what did it achieve?
01:17:33The fake murder that fooled the world on BBC iPlayer.
01:17:40?
01:17:42The fake murder that threw a mess, did it affect me a lot, so this is yours lets the death
01:17:46of an American securityถples.
01:17:49Because it wasn't over till the end.
01:17:50Well, thankfully on, it's nice to see you, ducks!
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