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Hello and thanks very much for choosing to listen to this podcast. I'm Helen Needham.

Stromness in the Orkney Islands is one of my most favourite places in the whole world.

I think just because when you're in amongst it, close to the shore, it has an ancient feel to it.

You can just imagine the big ships of the past sailing

in by to stop for water and supplies on their way to places like Canada. That rich history

is the focus of a piece of musical work by musician and composer Graham Rory. His album,

The Orcadians of Hudson Bay, is a musical response to some of these stories associated with the islands and the colonisation and exploration of northern Canada, the legacy of which can still be traced both sides of the Atlantic to this day.

I managed to grab Graham after a very special performance of the work in Stromnest Town Hall during the Orkney Folk Festival.

The first time this music had been performed in the place it emerged from.

He took me to the other end of the town to a significant place to explain some of the history. So we are at a spot called Logan's Well at the far end of the town and this was the spot that the ships coming up from London on their way

to the Hudson Bay Company in Canada

they would top up on water and supplies

at their... This was their final stop

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