As predicted in a recent Diary exclusive here, the Kilchoan pigs are set to become TV personalities after a team from the BBC drove all the way up to Ardnamurchan today to film and interview them.The weather could have been better, with sleety rain and a stiff wind blowing which must have made filming difficult but didn't bother the pigs who are quite used to being left outside in all weathers.
Some time was spent up Ormsaigbeg, where five of the pigs have recently cleared a plot of land, so the BBC was able to film land before and after the pigs had cleared it.
The team from the BBC were fortunate in having Hughie MacLachlan to supervise their work and give them advice on how to take the best shots.
As one would expect of budding media personalities, the pigs behaved wonderfully, coming up to the camera and offering their view on all aspects of world and local affairs - as personalities do. One, Pig X - The Diary was shocked to discover that, despite all the excitement about their coming celebrity, they still haven't been given names - complained on camera that the pig nuts they were getting no longer seemed appropriate to their new status, and they wanted caviar and champagne at all meals in future.
The BBC team left in very good spirits, full of admiration for the work the pigs were doing on clearing bracken. Holly Booth, assistant producer, promised that the pigs would be on the Landward programme, BBC Scotland, on a Friday evening in mid to late April.
The team from the BBC were fortunate in having Hughie MacLachlan to supervise their work and give them advice on how to take the best shots. 
As one would expect of budding media personalities, the pigs behaved wonderfully, coming up to the camera and offering their view on all aspects of world and local affairs - as personalities do. One, Pig X - The Diary was shocked to discover that, despite all the excitement about their coming celebrity, they still haven't been given names - complained on camera that the pig nuts they were getting no longer seemed appropriate to their new status, and they wanted caviar and champagne at all meals in future.
The BBC team left in very good spirits, full of admiration for the work the pigs were doing on clearing bracken. Holly Booth, assistant producer, promised that the pigs would be on the Landward programme, BBC Scotland, on a Friday evening in mid to late April.
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A bit of chauvanist "Pigsm" here! It should be remembered that while the Males are stuffed into a small plot in the affluent west end of Ormsaigbeg, the Females are languishing in one half of a" Large Estate "down the Sanna road, and were also extensively filmed for LANDWARD. Unfortunately they got so excited about the prospect of being filmed, they escaped into the lower half of the Estate, hoping to meet the cameras at the gate. As they were a day early, all they acheived was a great deal of "Ploughing" and nine extremely traumatised pregnant ewes. Another leg for my freezer!!
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