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Trump - Part One

The Reverend James Maciver from Stornoway Free Church of Scotland tells presenter Sally Magnusson what life was like on Lewis when Donald Trump's mother, Mary Ann MacLeod, was growing up. At Stornoway High Church, where Mary Ann worshipped, the Session Clerk, John Cunningham, shows the pews where she would have sat as a girl in the 1920s before she emigrated to New York. The organist, Christine MacCuish, remembers Mary Ann visiting the island where she spoke her native Gaelic to the locals.

The Iolaire Disaster

Journalist, John MacLeod, recalls the tragic events of early New Year's Day 1919 when the yacht Iolaire, which was carrying hundreds of naval volunteers home to Lewis at the end of WW1, struck rocks known as the 'Beasts of Holm', just 20 yards from the shore.

Reverend Sally Smith

We visit St. Mark's in Stoke where Reverend Sally Smith has welcomed an influx of asylum seekers from across the globe and who has seen many refugees turn to Christianity. A high number were formerly Muslims. We witness her baptise people into the faith and we speak to one of them about the significance of starting their journey with Jesus.

Trump - Part Two

We interview Reverend Jennifer Mills-Knutsen, a senior minister at the American International Church, who gives her views, as a fellow American, on Donald Trump's young life in New York and how the author of 'The Power of Positive Thinking', Norman Vincent Peale, became his close friend and spiritual mentor. Local journalist Iain MacIver remembers Donald Trump's visit to Lewis in 2008 to explore his roots.