When we decided to come to Shetland, I got in touch with Chris Drever and said,

who would be the best person to tell us about the musical traditions of these islands?

And he said, this is his email, Morris Henderson is the real deal, traditional fiddler,

member of the great band Fiddler's Bid and absolutely fascinating,

an expert on Shetlandic folklore and the music that's completely intertwined with it.

He basically knows everything, and he's an excellent speaker and fiddler.

So we've got to go and see Morris, haven't we?

And then when we got in touch with Morris, he said, could I bring my friend Ewan,

Ewan Thompson, who's part of a family from Fair Isle that includes Inga Thompson, who you might

have heard singing with Northern Flyway or with Corrine Polwart. So we said, yes, of course,

and Ewan Thompson is Aluthea. He's a man who makes fiddles.

So he makes the fiddles that these traditional tunes are performed on.

And we're going to go and visit his workshop now. Maurice, hello. Youan, hello. What an amazing day. First of all, the sun is out.

Yeah, it's great to see the sun, yeah. Just hit it right here,

down in Channardwick. It's raining all bits of the morning, it was raining, so it's

up now. It's the four seasons in one day thing, isn't it? You get a big change here.

But we're standing outside your house, Ewan,

and we're looking out to sea, and we're in a kind of lee of the hill in a bay with a ship moored at anchor out there. Do you know what the ship is? I believe it's a research ship. Oh right, okay. And what are these buildings that are surrounding us here? The house is here. We've got a greenhouse in the bottom of the garden.

And then we've got a small shed where I build instruments in the shed there. To build instruments in there. And people from all over the world want your violins, don't they? Yeah, I suppose that's... I know you're a modest man. I've not been found out yet. You're a modest man, but they do, don't they? They've gone over the place.

You've done your research.

Where's the furthest one's gone? Australia, I guess. It's the furthest. Right. And these folk musicians or classical musicians? Mostly folk, yeah, mostly folk music. A different genres, yeah. Right. And are you from here yourself from this part of the islands? No, I'm originally from Fair Isle, which is basically between Sumbra where you landed and Orkney, halfway between Arctaw? So further down south from here, we're sort of halfway up, aren't we? Yeah. Morrist, tell us about the geography of the Shetland Islands, because there's a lot of islands, aren't there? Yeah, and you mentioned Fair Isle there, it's the most southerly one,

and that's what about 24 miles south of summer ahead,

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