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Scotland Outdoors

Mark visits the places in Orkney which were the inspiration for the writer George MacKay Brown

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7709 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2018

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Mark's in Orkney visiting the places which inspired writer George MacKay Brown

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0:00.0

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0:35.1

Hello, thank you very much for downloading the Scotland Outdoors podcast.

0:38.1

I'm Mark Stephen.

0:39.7

This week, we bring you a programme we recorded a couple of years ago, up in Orkney,

0:44.7

concentrating on one of Orkney's favourite sons.

0:48.9

And we started off where he spent most of his life.

0:53.4

My father passed with his penny letters,

0:56.9

through closest opening and shutting like legends,

1:00.8

when barbellers with gulls,

1:02.8

Hannibos' mourning broke on the salt and dire steps.

1:07.8

I wish you could smell, let's never mind see it.

1:10.6

Certainly you can hear things like the fact that it's herring gulls, blackback gulls, a big flock of them down there, eating scraps of fish.

1:17.8

And the frontage here looks positively Scandinavian.

1:20.2

There's lots of sort of low wooden buildings.

1:22.6

You know, some of them painted red, some of them painted grey.

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