Culture
An insightful look at ravens – in art and legend
Crows, ravens, rooks and magpies - all birds that tend to get a hard time in myths and stories over the years. They usually tend...
Storm chase yields 66 copies of rare George Mackay Brown book
A joint appeal by BBC Radio Orkney and the George Mackay Brown Fellowship – to mark the centenary of the Orcadian writer’s birth this year...
A fascinating look around the Scottish coastline
One of the benefits of lockdown was that people who normally struggled to find time to write were finally able to do so. Kevin Scott,...
An insight into Scotland’s lost love of pewter
Pewter was in everyday use in most households, churches and places of commerce in Europe for hundreds of years. But it fell out of favour...
