Commercial Hotel

Voices of the past and the present weave an oral history of the town. This entertaining soundscape told by people of Stromness will lead you from the pier head to the cannon beyond Stromness Museum. In this fourth episode we hear about Stromness Shopping Week, George Mackay Brown and Orkney Fudge. Narrator: Jake Watson Featured speakers in order of appearance: Eric Flett & Ian MacInnes circa 1990 (BBC Radio Orkney) / Tom Wishart 1967 (Orkney Library & Archive) / Ernest Marwick 1967 (Orkney Library & Archive) / Ella Duncan & Bryce Scott 2011 / Edgar Ramsay 1976 (Orkney Library & Archive) / George Mackay Brown reads from ‘The Death of Peter Esson’ 1966 (estate of George Mackay Brown) / Lyndsey Rae 2011 / Jim Robertson 2011 / Eilidh McGacnie 2011 • Grace McGill 2011 Music: 1. Jennifer & Hazel Wrigley ‘For Eric & Gayle’ / 2. Jennifer & Hazel Wrigley ‘Skea Brae’