Riddoch Questions has taken the road to the isles this week for a special debate on the future of Scotland's island communities. The show, with a live audience on Benbecula in the Western Isles, featured a vote on plans for a local wind farm, a plea from young women about to leave the islands, and a challenge to mainland nature and gaelic quangos to site their headquarters on the islands. The panel included local Scottish National Heritage Area Manager David MacLennan; UHI expert on rural health policy, Professor Jane Farmer; Chairman of Storas Uibhist (the Uist community buyout company) Angus MacMillan, gaelic poet and writer Angus Peter Campbell, local crofter Ronald MacKinnon and school pupil Kevin Donkers.
This is a pre-recorded show so there is no opportunity to use calls, texts or emails this week during the programme. But the team welcomes your views on the debate by email on riddoch@bbc.co.uk.
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