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10 years ago an audio journey called Stromness Hometown was created, where voices of the past and, what was then, the present told the history of the town. The original version was available on headsets to listen to while you walked. We’re celebrating the 10th anniversary of Stromness Hometown by releasing it on all your usual podcast platforms, so that you can still listen while you walk, but also listen wherever you happen to be. 8 episodes plus a bonus track will be released daily from 16th December 2022. Things were different 10 years before Stromness Hometown and they’ll be different ...

Orkney Library & Archive’s sound archive is home to hundreds of voices on reel to reel tapes and cassettes, rich in dialect and broad in content. Creatives Mark Jenkins & Rebecca Marr (Kolekto) take a deep dive in to this archive and emerge with a different way of listening. Travelling across time, this audio ballad is a lyrical and immersive experience. Let the Orkney Sound Waves wash over you. If you want more, visit our website www.orkneysoundwaves.wordpress.com Produced by Kolekto (www.kolekto.co.uk)

Welcome to Rousay Tales. This podcast series from Orkney, Scotland, will take you around the island of Rousay, exploring life in the past and present. We’ve used the resources of Orkney Library and Archive, Rousay Remembered and the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute, together with contemporary recordings, to bring you this series of themed episodes. Rich in archaeology, Rousay is often called the ‘Egypt of the north’. Listen to stories from the archives, islanders and archaeologists woven with discoveries, folklore and places of intrigue. Find out about the ...

Saluton, mi estas Herkso! Vi ĵus malkovris alian manieron esplori la universon de hororrakontoj kaj aŭskulti timigajn, maltrankviligajn rakontojn en Esperanto. La rakontoj venas el la Jutuba kanalo de la sama nomo. Ambaŭ, la podkasto kaj la kanalo, estas alireblaj por rakontosugestoj kaj proponoj el vi: miestasherkso@gmail.com Subtenu min: patreon.com/KolektoDeHerkso

Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums This is the audio version o Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, the book written bae Orkney Voices and published by the George Mackay Brown Fellowship for the centenary o George Mackay Brown in 2021 Orcadians don’t aal spaek the same. Aal the perishes and islands hiv thir own weys o spaekeen and thir own wirds. And we even write the wird/wurd different weys/wiys. Some fokk write hid ‘spikk’; some fokk, ‘spaek’; some, ‘spake’. In this you’ll hear different versions o Orcadian fae different perts o the islands - Birsay tae Deerness, Shapinsay tae ...