Step into Orkney’s sea-salted past in the first chapter of Stromness – Spirit of the Sea. Storyteller Lynn Barbour shares legends, maritime heritage, and folklore.

Featuring words of George Mackay Brown (used with permission).

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Music: Fiona Driver

The latest instalment is from the time of The Autumn Equinox when the islanders reaped the Harvest of their hard toil on the land.

Discover the Muckle Supper celebrations of past island crofters and their relationship with the lands around their Toonships.

Listen to the present owner of the Mill Of Eyrland and the heritage of the Mill as the heart of these Orkney Islands’ Toonships.’

Producer: Flow State Music

Storyteller: Lynn Barbour

Music: Fiona Driver & Graham Simpson

Thanks to the estate of George Mackay Brown for permission to use his words, poems and narratives, enriching the development of A Storytelling Landscape.

Those Island Tellers of Tales from Orkney's past days had no doubt that their fireside hearers believed in what they heard......

George Mackay Brown wrote: 'The essence of Orkney's magic is silence, loneliness and the deep marvellous rhythms of sea and land, darkness and light'.

We invite you on a magical journey through our Island Storytelling Landscape. 

Producer: Flow State Music

Storyteller: Lynn Barbour

Music: Fiona Driver & Graham Simpson

Produced by Flow State Music in collaboration with the Orkney Folklore & Storytelling Centre.

You can keep up-to-date with our upcoming live streaming events and podcasts by visiting orkneystorytelling.com/astorytellinglandscape or by searching Apple Podcasts, Facebook, Instagram and Spotify for ‘A Storytelling Landscape’.

Storyteller: Lynn Barbour 

Producer: Kyle Wilson 

The first episode 'Yuletide and Auld Neu' Year Customs' features a poem by George Mackay Brown called 'A Boy At Hogmanay' and interview with local, Francis Sinclair, a renowned Orkney Fisherman. 

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This is a clip from the first episode 'Yuletide and Auld Neu' Year Customs' with a poem by George Mackay Brown called 'A Boy At Hogmanay'. 

As part of this collaboration, you can still listen to the companion piece.

This Trowie podcast and the wider Midsummer Magic project would not have been possible without the work, wisdom, and inspiration of a few very special Orcadian voices — past and present — whose storytelling traditions continue to shape and guide what we do.

This story begins, one Winter Solstice, on The Islands Of Orkney…’

We invite you on a magical journey through our Orkney Islands’ Storytelling Landscape.

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