John Leslie from Shapinsay has been building boats for decades. Nearing retirement, he contemplates his life on the sea, as a creel fisherman and a boat builder, while building what might be his last dinghy. The film by Mark Jenkins from Stromness has music by James Watson.
Tales of Papa Westray folk, past, present and future. There’s news of island birdlife, the story of the Traill family, a film of building a cassie sea defence-wall, and a new animated film produced by the pupils of the school, with a rich mix of voices from the community: follow the story of the Tystie's struggle to find fish!
Just 20,000 years ago, Orkney was covered by a kilometre of ice, part of a huge mass reaching beyond Scotland. Over the years, geologists have found evidence of rocks carried by the glaciers, and in a new film by Selena Kuzman, Dr John Flett Brown and Dr Adrian Hall find some rocks that have travelled a long distance.
