HYPERBOREAN ODYSSEY 3: Orkney and Hebrides

 

 

I visited a well preserved stone age village on a remote Scottish island. Skara Brae is 5000 years old and one of the best preserved Neolithic settlements in the world. Part 3 of my HYPERBOREAN ODYSSEY series includes Orkney, the Isle of Skye in the Hebrides, Fingal's Cave amd Ailsa Craig both steeped in Gaelic folklore, and the island of Iona where the Columban abbey was established until it was destroyed by Vikings.

Documentary: The Shoals of Herring

The Shoals of Herring. A documentary film based on a 1950s Radio Ballad called `Singing the Fishing' by Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger and Charles Parker, about the rise and decline of the herring industry on the east coast of Scotland and East Anglia. Contemporary footage of the fishermen at work is intercut with interviews and archive photos, clips from John Greirson's DRIFTERS, Harry Watts' NORTH SEA, and Campbell Harper's CALLING HERRING. Traditional folk songs are used throughout.

Flare Up At Shetland

broadcast in 1973

Orkneyinga saga

I went on an insane road trip from London to the Orkney islands with Huw Nesbitt and Rasha Kahil

These are some of Rasha's great photos of the trip




Me
Day I
Day II
Day III
Day IV
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