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Dominic Jewel, producer of Classics Unwrapped tells us about his visit to the and his broadcast from the .

When Jamie told me Glenborrodale was at least an hour and a half from the , I should have realised two things:

1) that the roads really were as long and winding as everyone said and

2) Jamie doesn't drive as fast as I do.

No wonder Scotland produces rally drivers of almost Nordic skill: these single-track roads, twisting and plunging through intense forests, are enough to bring out the animal in any hire-car driver. Actually on more than one occasion it was the hire-car driver that brought out the animal in the forests: only respect for my hosts prevented me from speeding up, dinking a deer, and driving off with some fresh venison in the boot.

The goodly folk of the later repaid my road-kill restraint with a splendid barbeque; nothing tastes as good as a venison burger shot, butchered, made and cooked by one person: how's that for locally-sourced produce?

is one of those astonishing monuments of Victorian self-confidence - red Ayrshire stone shipped up and plonked in the middle of nowhere by a friend of who liked the peninsula so much he bought it.

Although it could seem out of place, somehow it fits and it's a fantastic location for a . Isn't the very act of performing music one which takes disparate elements and somehow makes them work? Certainly the philosophy behind these performances was that, almost unplanned, the audience should come around a corner and stumble upon something enchanting.

Which was what happened on the way back: I drove past a deer lying where someone else had dinked it. Now taking that one home wouldn't be wrong, would it?

Dominic Jewel is producer of Classics Unwrapped and Dress Circle. View the gallery and footage of Glenborrodale Gardens below: