GalleryFrom childhood tinkering to gravitational waves
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Had Prof. Ron Drever lived just a few more months this year, he would almost certainly have been awarded a share of this year’s Nobel Prize for Physics, for his part in one of […]
GalleryAlamein
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From the story of ‘Big Bill and the Guns of Alamein’ in the 2017 Orkney International Science Festival comes this song with Andy, Lewis and Chris.
GalleryBig Bill and the Guns of Alamein
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At the second battle of el-Alamein, where the Allied artillery was the only protection for the slow infantry advance through a vast minefield, Signalman Bill Sutherland from Orkney kept up the flow of targeting […]
GalleryPepperwort and Parsley, Beeswax and Fulmar Oil
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Mary Beith Memorial Lecture
Mary Beith was known as a lecturer and researcher of great clarity on the traditional medicines of the Highlands. Through her newspaper and magazine articles, her book Healing Threads, and […]
GalleryMaxwell’s Light
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Images from two of the Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell’s favourite walks, near Parton in Galloway, where the Lair Burn and the River Urr run close to his house of Glenlair. Jennifer Austin’s composition, […]
GalleryHope’s Beautiful Daughters
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A new CD bringing together Scottish and Slovenian musicians and storytellers is to be launched in Orkney on 3 September.
‘Hope’s Beautiful Daughters’, in both folk and rock mood, highlights stories of women who overcome […]
GalleryBrian Boru’s March
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Brian Boru’s March, played on the harp by Lesley MacLeod, takes us back 1000 years to a battle which left its mark on northern history – and is featured in several ways in the […]
Broad Street Saturday
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Broad Street in Kirkwall is the setting for some of the Saturday afternoon events in the annual Orkney International Science Festival. There is the Vintage Rally organised by Orkney Vintage Club, with music by […]
Europe’s Lost World
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Hunters with spears scan an ancient landscape that now lies beneath the waters of the North Sea. The search for the lost world of Doggerland was the subject of two fascinating sessions of talks […]
Back for the Saturday afternoon Singalong!
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Mr Boom’s new CD is special in two ways. First of all, he’s brought it out especially for the Festival, and is indeed calls it ‘Come to the Festival’.
And secondly, he features a […]
GalleryBut Oh! the Stars in all their Beauty
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The Sunday evening concert featuring the Mayfield Singers and organist George McPhee with guests is always a highlight, and last year it included the premiere of a new piece of music and the first […]
GalleryKirkwall City Pipe Band
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Kirkwall City Pipe Band hold their final parade of the season on Broad Street on the Saturday evening of the Festival, which this year will be 7 September.
The sight and sound of the band […]
GalleryThree in a Bar
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Three in a Bar came together to play at Festival events and in addition provide music at special events such as the North Ronaldsay Harvest Home and Burns Supper.
Here they are with a track […]
New dance honours great Scot
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A NEW DANCE WAS LAUNCHED at the Festival to honour one of the greatest Scots of all time – who has had all too little recognition in his own land.
James Clerk Maxwell is to […]
Reasons for Hope OISF 2012
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The 12th-century St Magnus Cathedral in Kirkwall was the setting for the lecture Reasons for Hope by Jane Goodall on 7 September 2012 in the annual Orkney International Science Festival.
The Grand Tour 2012
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This is a brief visit to four famous historical pipe organs in Germany, the Czech Republic and The Netherlands. High quality sampled version of these organs were played by Professor George Mcphee using the […]
A Green and Medieval Afternoon 2011
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Music and art, crafts and costumes, stories of people and ideas, all in the setting of the Earl’s and Bishop’s Palaces in Kirkwall, Orkney, in the 21st Orkney International Science Festival, September 2011
GalleryMaxwell’s Waves and Freeland’s tunes
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The music for the new dance Maxwell’s Waves was composed by one of the great figures in Scottish traditional music, Freeland Barbour. The dance made its first public appearance at the Island Ceilidh in […]
Chemistry Show 2010
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The Flashing and Banging Chemistry Show lived up to its name in the 2010 Orkney International Science Festival, under the direction of Prof. Donald MacPhee of Aberdeen University.
For A’ That 2009
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Magda: We get so much wildlife around our house because of the trees we’ve grown. Stan started planting them when we moved in, more than thirty-five years ago. He kept a record of their […]
