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Monty Halls dives with conger eels Duration: Music Played. Thu 11 Aug Sat 3 Sep BBC One except Scotland. BBC One Scotland. Sat 17 Jun BBC Two Scotland. Home Schedule TV Guide. Executive Producer. Series Producer. A Hug For You. The Dublin Railway Murder. Who Lived There? Nicola McCloy , Jane King. It's Marty! Our top books, exclusive content and competitions. Straight to your inbox. Sign up to our newsletter using your email.

Enter your email to sign up. Thank you! Your subscription to Read More was successful. To help us recommend your next book, tell us what you enjoy reading. Add your interests. For the past two years, the BBC has kept them both occupied by sending them to the remote parts of Scotland and the Hebrides: this summer finds them continuing their perma-holiday on the island of Inishee in the far west of Connemara for Monty Halls' Great Irish Escape BBC2.

As a sales pitch for the Irish tourist board the programme works perfectly, but as entertainment it falls a long way short because watching other people go on holiday wears thin very quickly, no matter how jolly they are. Not that Halls seems to imagine he's on vacation as he is very insistent that he has come to Ireland to work. Or to be more specific, count dolphins. So you would expect Halls to have had some idea of what he was meant to be doing before he pitched up.

Only he didn't and his first move was to drive two hours down the coast to talk to a scientist who had been counting dolphins in the Shannon estuary for the past 15 years or so, to learn what to do. It also didn't seem to have occurred to Halls that if counting dolphins off Inishee really was vital research, the scientist might have fitted in the odd trip now and again to do it. Next, Halls went off to explore the beach, because he had heard there was a dead whale washed up there.

Sadly, it had vanished — or more likely Halls had been given a bum steer by one of the locals for a laugh — by the time he got there. Still, it wasn't an entirely wasted trip as Halls found a plastic container in which he could grow potatoes.