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“Modest people, playing gorgeous music, speaking articulately about areas they love. Fabulously calming” – one listener’s description of this multi-award-winning podcast in which Matthew Bannister goes walking with top folk musicians in the landscapes that have inspired them. “A restorative breathing space in sound” – The Telegraph. “Immaculately produced” – The Times
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Thursday Jan 16, 2020
Kris Drever on Orkney
Thursday Jan 16, 2020
Thursday Jan 16, 2020
The guitarist, singer and songwriter Kris Drever was born and brought up on Orkney, the archipelago off the Northern coast of Scotland which is steeped in history. The walk starts in the main town of Kirkwall with its huge sandstone cathedral commemorating St Magnus who came to an untimely end. In the graveyard Kris sings “Winter Moon”. Then they head off to the shores of the great natural harbour at Scapa Flow where Kris performs his powerful song about the scuttling of the entire German navy there in 1919. They end up at the chapel created in a nissen hut by Italian prisoners during the Second World War – a poignant setting for Kris’s song “Ghosts”.
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A lovely virtual trip in these restricted times
Tuesday Mar 31, 2020
Just a joy to hear.Wonderful insight into a thoughtful man&his music.
Sunday Jan 19, 2020
Wonderful. Thank you for this. Interesting and warm.
Friday Jan 17, 2020
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