Farmland Inferno

Available for over a year

Scotland's biggest moorland wildfire in living memory has been extinguished. The helicopters have left and the fire engine sirens fallen silent, but the blaze which raged for days has left its mark, not just on the charred trees and ravished land, but on farmers who were depending on thousands of hill acres to graze their sheep this autumn. With the smell of smoke still hanging in the air, Nancy Nicolson joins Alex and Moyra Gray out on their hillside as they recount their terrifying experience and contemplate the almost impossible task of finding costly temporary grazing or having to sell some of their livestock.