By Eamonn Keyes Father Ted is a firm TV family favourite even almost thirty years after it was made. It came out of nowhere, this series set around a funny but accurate […]
My Lovely Horse- The Back Story
Geriatrock- The Rime of The Ancient Musician
“For most of us, music framed our youth, becoming the source of memorable markers through life, with the power to instantly bring us back to a moment decades past, evoking the emotional responses, the attendant memories and the joy and sadness of the times.”
100 Million Degrees and Rising #OISF
This talk was delivered with considerable authority given Dr Windridge’s background and gave a real insight into the development and possible future of fusion power.
Picking up pieces of musical driftwood #OISF
Missing only a full moon, the lonesome wail of a coyote and a fire with a coffee pot on it, The Driftwood Cowboys performed to a packed Thursday night Orkney Club crowd, taking us on a journey through Cowboy musical culture.
The Week That I Could Sing
By Eamonn Keyes Life can be very strange, which I’m guessing most of us over the age of 18 know by now. This is the story of one of those stranger things […]
The Science of the Sun #OISF
Without it we wouldn’t be here at all, as it is responsible for Earth’s creation and ongoing development, which includes us as temporary tenants, and one day in the far future it will likely be responsible for the destruction of the Solar System when it runs out of hydrogen, becomes a red giant which will likely swallow us up before collapsing inward, exploding and throwing the remaining planets into space after roasting them and drenching them with huge amounts of radiation that even Factor 5 million sunscreen and a duffle coat wouldn’t stop.
Symphonies of Galaxies #OISF
Astronomy is one of the rich mix of influences on the Scottish composer Eddie McGuire, in conversation with astronomer Dr Anne-Marie Weijmans and trumpeter and conductor Bede Williams, both from St Andrews University.
Norman Rushbrook: The Men In Black, St Magnus International Festival
Norman Rushbrook has been Lighting Manager with the St. Magnus Festival, since 1978.
Orcadian Stories
Last year Martin Laird and Fiona Grahame took on a project to record in filmed interviews a few of the untold stories of Orkney from those who were there at the time. Filmed over many months the interviews recount events from the 1970s to the present day.
Norman Rushbrook: The Men In Black
Premiering on Saturday 19th of November at 4.30pm on The Orkney News YouTube channel is the next in the series of films ‘Orcadian Stories’.
