Stromness – Spirit of the Sea is a three-part storytelling series from Orkney, blending folklore, legend, and history with immersive soundscapes. Told by Lynn Barbour and produced by Kyle Wilson (Flow State Music).

Step into Orkney’s sea-salted past in the first chapter of Stromness – Spirit of the Sea. Storyteller Lynn Barbour shares legends, maritime heritage, and folklore.

Featuring words of George Mackay Brown (used with permission).

Find live events and more at orkneystorytelling.com and subscribe to our mailing list

Music: Fiona Driver

We invite you on a magical journey through our Island Storytelling Landscape.

The latest instalment is from the time of The Autumn Equinox when the islanders reaped the Harvest of their hard toil on the land.

Discover the Muckle Supper celebrations of past island crofters and their relationship with the lands around their Toonships.

Listen to the present owner of the Mill Of Eyrland and the heritage of the Mill as the heart of these Orkney Islands’ Toonships.’

Producer: Flow State Music

Storyteller: Lynn Barbour

Music: Fiona Driver & Graham Simpson

Thanks to the estate of George Mackay Brown for permission to use his words, poems and narratives, enriching the development of A Storytelling Landscape.

We may not have sat for long Winter evenings listening to the spontaneous flow of old tales, but we hope that you enjoy listening to our 'Midsummer Magic in the Orkney Islands - The Happening Podcast .

Those Island Tellers of Tales from Orkney's past days had no doubt that their fireside hearers believed in what they heard......

George Mackay Brown wrote: 'The essence of Orkney's magic is silence, loneliness and the deep marvellous rhythms of sea and land, darkness and light'.

We invite you on a magical journey through our Island Storytelling Landscape.

Producer: Flow State Music

Storyteller: Lynn Barbour

Music: Fiona Driver & Graham Simpson

A Storytelling Landscape - The Folk O' Hill & Mound - An Island Crofter's Calendar. Our second episode, The Folk O' Hill & Mound - An Island Crofter's Calendar, featured Barbara Wick of Easter Voy Farm. A big thanks to Barbara for taking part! We would also like to thank the estate of George Mackay Brown for use of his poems and narrative.

Produced by Flow State Music in collaboration with the Orkney Folklore & Storytelling Centre.

You can keep up-to-date with our upcoming live streaming events and podcasts by visiting orkneystorytelling.com/astorytellinglandscape or by searching Apple Podcasts, Facebook, Instagram and Spotify for ‘A Storytelling Landscape’.

Storyteller: Lynn Barbour

Producer: Kyle Wilson

The Orkney Folklore and Storytelling Centre & the Mill Of Eyrland launches ‘A Storytelling Landscape’ to enrich the visitors' and local peoples' Orkney Islands' experiences through the Islands' Oral Heritage, ancient traditions of storytelling alongside 'The Story of Place' experiences.

The first episode 'Yuletide and Auld Neu' Year Customs' features a poem by George Mackay Brown called 'A Boy At Hogmanay' and interview with local, Francis Sinclair, a renowned Orkney Fisherman.

www.orkneystorytelling.com/astorytellinglandscape/

The Orkney Folklore and Storytelling Centre & the Mill Of Eyrland launches ‘A Storytelling Landscape’ to enrich the visitors' and local peoples' Orkney Islands' experiences through the Islands' Oral Heritage, ancient traditions of storytelling alongside 'The Story of Place' experiences.

This is a clip from the first episode 'Yuletide and Auld Neu' Year Customs' with a poem by George Mackay Brown called 'A Boy At Hogmanay'.

The Orkney Storytelling Centre is delighted to partner with the St Magnus International Festival for “The Peedie Folk O’ Hill and Mound – The Happening,” a sold‑out, immersive performance, blending Orcadian folklore and storytelling.

As part of this collaboration, you can still listen to the companion piece.

This Trowie podcast and the wider Midsummer Magic project would not have been possible without the work, wisdom, and inspiration of a few very special Orcadian voices — past and present — whose storytelling traditions continue to shape and guide what we do.

‘Everything was not always as it is now - We forget, you know, that things weren’t always the way they are now…and everything begins Somewhere…Somewhere…

This story begins, one Winter Solstice, on The Islands Of Orkney…’

We invite you on a magical journey through our Orkney Islands’ Storytelling Landscape.

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