Inspired by Orkney’s ‘Festival of the Horse and Boys’ Ploughing Match’ and by the land’s relationship with the sea,
Bernie Bell: “There’s ‘nowt so queer as folk’”
“Often, the only way I can deal with what’s happening around me is to remind myself that …..’There’s ‘nowt so queer as folk’.”
Alec Ross: We Don’t Own the Franchise for Modernity and Technology
“Do we think too much about the past? Shouldn’t we think more about the present? And this – was the past so very different?”
Poetry Corner: Them and Us by Bernie Bell
“If East is East
And West is West
Then where, my dear, is here?”
The Laird O’ Yarpha: Episode 3
“And he looked round him with an air of triumph. as much as to say, “There’s as muckle sense beneath some folk’s bannets as there is aneath ither folk’s hats.”
Poetry Corner: Swallow by Andrew Velzian
“Gulls would circle the herring fleet diving deep…”
Exhibition in Thurso for Orkney Artist
Exhibition of new work by Orkney based artist Mirran Hall
Poetry Corner: Sands of Hope
“A thousand oars crash down as one
From first light till day is done”
Sgathaich: Gundam the Origin
“Gundam is, well in cultural importance, to Japan, what Star Wars was to America, only they didn’t build a life size death star yet.”
The Laird O’Yarpha: Episode 2: Harray
“Harray, celebrated over the whole archipelago for the peculiarities of its inhabitants, their singular manners and customs, their uncouth appearance, and homely address.”
