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The Battle of the Tweed

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Last on

Fri 6 Feb 2009 11:00 BBC Radio 4

Duration:
30 minutes
First broadcast:
Friday 06 February 2009

Financial journalist Lesley Campbell finds out if new money and new ideas from outside the Outer Hebrides can save the local Harris Tweed industry, which is on the brink of disappearing. She visits the boardrooms and the windswept island homes of those battling to preserve this iconic fabric.

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