The first episode of a new podcast series looking at life in Rousay, past and present, is now live.
Dwelling focuses is on the houses of the living and the dead, taking the listener back to Neolithic settlements and some of the people involved in digging Rousay’s many tombs.
Forward through time to brochs, disappearing Norse sites and the only large-scale clearance in Orkney. Visit Trumland and a house with indelible blood stains and call in on Rousay’s longest living inhabitant.
Using material from the Orkney Library and Archive, Rousay Remembered and the UHI Archaeology Institute, together with contemporary recordings, Rousay Tales will bring listeners a series of themed episodes.
Featuring stories from the archives, islanders and archaeologists and woven with discoveries, folklore and places of intrigue, the podcast has been produced by Mark Jenkins and Rebecca Marr, of Kolekto, and Dan Lee of the UHI Archaeology Institute.
A new episode of Rousay Tales will be posted online every Friday and all can be found here.
