Social History with Billy Kay
Billy Kay introduces a fascinating selection of social history programmes including stories from Kintyre, Nairn, Lossiemouth, Shetland, Barra, St Kilda and Knoydart.
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Fishermen of Kintyre
Documentary about the ring-net method of fishing which originated off the coast of Kintyre and spread throughout the West of Scotland.
Duration: 45:26
The Fisher Lassies
Profiling the daughters of herring fishermen who followed the fleet from port to port, gutting and packing the fish for transport to Russia and Germany.
Duration: 47:52
Off the Isle of May
Colourful stories from the lives of the fisher folk who lived on the shores of the Firth of Forth.
Duration: 44:27
Da Merrie Boys
Documenting the social and sometimes controversial history of the Shetland whaling industry.
Duration: 45:27
Clan Neil of Barra
Stories of conquests, battles, inter-clan feuding, land ownership, beheadings, religion and the clearances.
Duration: 46:53
St Kilda
An elegy for the island on the edge of the world, first broadcast in 1980 on the 50th anniversary of the evacuation of the island.
Duration: 47:24
The Seven Men of Knoydart
Stories from the remote peninsula on Scotland’s West Coast whose history is bound up in land-raiding, crafting and a controversial Nazi sympathiser.
Duration: 46:55
Broadcasts
- Wed 20 Oct 2010 00:30Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio Scotland Extra
- Wed 27 Oct 2010 00:30Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio Scotland Extra
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