Podcasts about shetland isles

Marjolein Robertson is a Scottish comedian, improviser, and storyteller. Born in Lerwick, on the Shetland Isles, she first started performing with Shetland Youth Theatre at the age of 13. After graduating from the University of Edinburgh, she was working as a town planner, saving for a mortgage, when she and her partner decided to move to Amsterdam on a whim. A series of catastrophes followed. Marjolein lost her home and her job, then landed in a Dutch improvisational comedy class, and began studying improvised comedy and stand up. Since then, she has become one of Scotland's most exciting young talents, reaching the finals of the BBC New Comedy Awards in 2022 and Channel 4's Sean Lock Comedy Awards in 2024. Her solo show ‘Marj' was nominated for two awards at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2023 and released as a comedy special, and she is about to embark on a UK-wide tour with her new show 'O'.  Be attitude for gains. https://plus.acast.com/s/my-perfect-console. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today's ep takes on a very Scandi feel, as our guest detective hot foots it from the Shetland Isles with tales of local ne'er do wells and fishy goings on, begging the question as to why no TV crime drama has been set there yet? The gang then find their sea legs to get to the bottom of a story set on the high seas, before helping one lucky listener solve the mystery of a lost, or stolen object - it's a case only the Drunk Women can crack.The London Residency is back at The Museum of Comedy in 2025! There are shows in February, March, April, May and June. Full info and tickets hereLive - Drunk Women Solving Crime - The UK's hit true crime comedy podcastPLUS - Taylor and Hannah are back in Belfast on Saturday 3rd May 2025, when DWSC are part of the CQAF Festival - head to CQAF 2025 Earlybird - CQAF for tickets!Don't forget DWSC now drops TWICE weekly! Episodes will be on general release every Wednesday AND Friday.BUT you can get both shows in one hit, by going to our Patreon where you can sign up for early access and get both episodes every Tuesday.As well as this, you'll get ad free eps, invites to watch our live zoom records, video of all our studio eps, bespoke shout outs and MORE! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rendering Unconscious Podcast is now at Substack! https://renderingunconscious.substack.com RU334: ÙNA MARIA BLYTH ON MUSES NO MORE: PORTRAITS OF OCCULT WOMEN: https://renderingunconscious.substack.com/p/ru333-una-maria-blythe-on-muses-no Rendering Unconscious episode 334. Ùna Maria Blyth is here to talk about her new book Muses No More: Portraits of Occult Women (Hexen Press 2024), which features illustrations by Luciana Lupe Vasconcelos. https://www.hexen.fr/books-prints/muses-no-more-una-maria-blyth#/edition-hardcover Follow at Instagram: @unaofthepeatbog @hexen_press @luciferovs The conversation centers on the book Muses No More: Portraits of Occult Women by Ùna Maria Blyth, which features 17 occult women, including Marjorie Cameron, Maya Deren, Annie Besant, Marie Laveau, Pamela Colman Smith, Maria de Naglowska, and Rosaleen Norton. The artist Luciana Lupe Vasconcelos created the cover art and accompanying illustrations. With this book, Ùna emphasizes accessibility and personal connection, avoiding dry academic language. She discusses the importance of including gossip and personal stories. The second half of the book includes interactive spells and exercises to engage readers. This discussion touches on the challenges of being a queer artist and the importance of play and experimentation in both magic and psychoanalysis. Ùna also mentions her apprenticeships in writing and cartomancy, available on her website. https://www.unamariablyth.com Ùna Maria Blyth is an occult writer and practitioner of peatbog folk magic, tarot reader/teacher, workshop facilitator, and meditation teacher living in the Shetland Isles. Alongside offering card readings, magical consultations & meditation facilitation, she has written for a range of publications including Folklore for Resistance, Sabat, Rituals & Declarations, Cunning Folk Magazine, Doggerland, Fire & Knives, and the academic text Reframing Immersive Theatre (published by Palgrave Macmillan).

On 20 February, 1472, Orkney and Shetland officially became part of Scotland having been offered up as security for the dowry of the daughter of King Christian of Norway and Denmark. The marriage was aimed at quelling a long-standing tax-related feud between the two powers. But as time wore on, it began to feel as though the Scandinavians just didn't really want Orkney and Shetland all that much. In this episode, Arion, Rebecca and Olly look at how Vikings had come to control the islands in the first place; reveal why the citizens of Shetland have never stopped loving their Scandi past; and explain why if you want to properly describe the pattern variations of certain breeds of sheep you might need to learn a dead language…  Further Reading: • ‘On this day 1472: Orkney and Shetland join Scotland' (The Scotsman, 2015): https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/day-1472-orkney-and-shetland-join-scotland-1512113  • ‘The islands of Orkney and Shetland passed into Scottish ownership' (History Scotland, 2022): https://www.historyscotland.com/history/the-islands-of-orkney-and-shetland-passed-into-scottish-ownership-on/  • ‘20th February 1472: Orkney and Shetland Isles given to Scotland by Norway as a wedding dowry' (HistoryPod, 2019): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COI05mwNda4  This episode first aired in 2023 Love the show? Support us!  Join 

Comedian and actor Marjolein Robertson from the magical Shetland Isles joins Bush and the team this week to take on the UK's most leftfield quiz. Can she identify the public's preference for the best thing on toast, what country in the British Isles they think packs the best punch, and how long they could put up with a dripping tap? For tickets to see Marjolein's live show, go to https://linktr.ee/MarjoleinRobertson To play along with the quiz, go to guestimators.com Email us on hello@guestimators.com Voicenotes to 07457404279 And follow our socials: Twitter/X Instagram  YouTube TikTok Hosts - Andy Bush & Matt Cutler Producer - Will Nichols Music - Adam Harrison Design - Charlie Thomas Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

David Lehmann served in the Scotland, Edinburgh Mission from September of 2002 through September of 2004. David shares about his fun times, including learning to fish in the Shetland Isles, running the coal race in Kelty, and day trip drives to the Isle of Skye from Inverness. He loved serving in Scotland and all the wonderful people that he served with. David currently lives in Freiburg, Germany, with his wife and their 3 children. Recorded May 7, 2023

This Slow Radio experience features sounds from the BBC television programme Wild Isles: a chance to revel in the extraordinary sounds recorded and created for the series, without voice-over or music. Using an aural collage of clips, the half-hour soundscape takes a journey from mountain stream to the sea, around Great Britain and Ireland. It utilises sounds from the Freshwater and Oceans episodes and begins with a specially recorded introduction by Sir David Attenborough. From there, the sounds of cascading streams and waterfalls give way to the call and shuffle of a common toad. Around the caves of County Cavan bats use sonar to navigate. Their ultrasonic clicks can be heard, slowed down. A cuckoo sings beside a chalk stream while a spider catches a pond skater in its web. The distinctive low call of the bittern introduces the Suffolk reed beds, where great crested grebes perform a mating dance, beaks clashing. Further towards the sea, a colony of knot are scattered by a peregrine falcon, and in the Shetland Isles, a sea otter grunts and snorts around the rocks. A thunderstorm at sea heralds a seal colony at Blakeney Point, Norfolk, where two males fight. Then the eerie calls of Manx shearwater, who visit each year from South America, are followed by the chatter of many gannets, in and out of water. The Corryvreckan Whirlpool in Scotland pulls us under for an array of fantastical subaquatic sounds: cuttlefish, sea gooseberries, melon comb jelly; the squelch of a royal flush sea slug, spider crabs leaving their shells, and the scream of a scallop, devoured by a starfish. Dolphins break the surface, and a bluefin tuna skims across the waves before we sail out into Cardigan Bay. Audio post-production: Wounded Buffalo Slow Radio producer: Sam Hickling Wild Isles sound team: Sound Editors – Kate Hopkins, Tom Mercer Dubbing Mixers – Oliver Baldwin, Dan Brown, Olga Reed, Graham Wild

Thanks to Leo for suggesting this week's topic, the ponies of Assateague Island! Further reading: Assateague Wild Ponies Some ponies running free on Assateague Island [photo taken from the site linked above]: Show transcript: Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I'm your host, Kate Shaw. This week we're going to learn about the feral horses of Assateague! Thanks to Leo for the suggestion! That's the grown-up Leo; we also have a young Leo who's sent some great suggestions, including one we're hopefully going to get to pretty soon. Before we talk about Assateague ponies, though, we need to start somewhere else. The kelpie is a Scottish water spirit that's supposed to appear as a pony wandering by itself, but if someone tries to catch the pony or get on its back to ride it, suddenly it drags the person into the water and either drowns them or eats them. It's said that the only way to tell that the pony isn't really a pony is to examine its feet. A real pony has hooves, but a kelpie has claws. The story comes from the olden days when it was common to see ponies wandering around loose in Scotland and other parts of the UK. Some of the ponies in these areas were semi-feral, meaning they lived a lot of the time like wild animals. Some ponies were kept in stables and farmyards as working animals, but others were allowed to roam around and feed themselves as they liked. Every so often the wild ponies would be rounded up and any young ones branded by their mother's owner. Sometimes the owner would need another pony to pull a cart or something, and they'd catch one of their ponies and bring it home to train. Sometimes the owner needed money so would catch some of their ponies to sell. The ponies that lived this way had to be tough and hardy to survive almost without human care, but luckily ponies are famously tough. Ponies are a type of small horse, but they're still horses. They're generally sturdy, with a thicker coat than a full-sized horse, and usually stand around 14 hands high at the withers at most. The withers is the little bump of shoulder at the base of a horse's neck, and the horse's back starts behind the withers. A hand is an old horse measurement that has been standardized to four inches, or just over 10 cm, roughly the width of an adult person's hand. 14 hands is equivalent to about 4 and a half feet tall, or 1.4 meters. One of the best-known pony breeds is the Shetland pony, which also happens to be one of the smallest. It only stands 42 inches tall at most, or 107 cm. That's about 3 and a half feet tall. It's mostly used as a child's mount but originally the Shetland was used to pull carts and plows and carry heavy loads, since despite its small size the Shetland pony is incredibly strong. The Shetland comes from the Shetland Isles off the northeastern coast of Scotland, where it's lived for at least two thousand years and probably more like 3,000. The islands get very cold in winter and there isn't a lot of food, so over time the ponies evolved to be small and tough to survive. On the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, there are feral horses living on an island called Assateague. Assateague Island is off the eastern coast of the United States, closest to the states of Virginia and Maryland. They're actually not technically ponies except that they're small, since ponies actually share certain traits that differentiate them from horses, even though these differences aren't enough to call ponies a subspecies of horse. But because the Assateague horses rarely grow taller than 4 and a half feet tall, or 140 cm, people call them ponies. I'm going to stop here and tell you a personal story, because I've actually seen the Assateague ponies myself. I lived in Pennsylvania for a little while after I finished grad school, and at the time I had an awesome dog named Jasper, a Newfoundland I got through Newf rescue. Newfies are bred to be water dogs in the harsh coastal regions of Newfoundland, Canada,

On 20 February, 1472, Orkney and Shetland officially became part of Scotland having been offered up as security for the dowry of the daughter of King Christian of Norway and Denmark. The marriage was aimed at quelling a long-standing tax-related feud between the two powers. But as time wore on, it began to feel as though the Scandinavians just didn't really want Orkney and Shetland all that much. In this episode, Arion, Rebecca and Olly look at how Vikings had come to control the islands in the first place; reveal why the citizens of Shetland have never stopped loving their Scandi past; and explain why if you want to properly describe the pattern variations of certain breeds of sheep you might need to learn a dead language…  Further Reading: • ‘On this day 1472: Orkney and Shetland join Scotland' (The Scotsman, 2015): https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/day-1472-orkney-and-shetland-join-scotland-1512113  • ‘The islands of Orkney and Shetland passed into Scottish ownership' (History Scotland, 2022): https://www.historyscotland.com/history/the-islands-of-orkney-and-shetland-passed-into-scottish-ownership-on/  • ‘20th February 1472: Orkney and Shetland Isles given to Scotland by Norway as a wedding dowry' (HistoryPod, 2019): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COI05mwNda4  #1400s #Royals #Scotland #Scandinavia  Love the show? Join 

Amy (Cooper) Taylor served her mission in the Scotland, Edinburgh Mission from March 2005 through September of 2006. She shares her stories of moving often all throughout the mission, and serving with an all-star cast of sister missionaries. Amy also recollects on her adventures of learning to drive in Scotland, talks about her many ventures to and from the Shetland Isles, and her love of serving the people of Scotland. Amy currently resides in the Vernal, Utah area with her husband and 4 children. She is hopeful that this episode blazes the trail for many more former sisters from the S.E.M. to come on and share their experiences as well. Recorded June 15, 2022

We're back on the glorious Shetland Isles for this episode and who better to show us around than the renowned local fiddle player Maurice Henderson (of Fiddlers Bid) and his friend the luthier and guitarist from Fair Isle Ewen Thomson? After Ewen demonstrates how to make a great violin, they take us to the beach where they tell folk tales, play traditional dance tunes and introduce us to the sea birds. --- Access exclusive films of Maurice and Ewan performing along our walk, along with over 150 other performances from dozens of artists, by signing up to Folk On Foot On Film: https://www.folkonfoot.com/watch We rely entirely on support from our listeners to make Folk on Foot. So please consider becoming a patron. You'll make a small monthly contribution and get great rewards. Find out more at www.patreon.com/folkonfoot. Sign up for our newsletter at www.folkonfoot.com Follow us on Twitter/Facebook/Instagram: @folkonfoot

Episode 082 of The Adventure Podcast features Chris Dyer, a Crofter/Archaeologist/Historian/Firefighter, who lives on a smallholding on the Shetland Isles off the coast of Northern Scotland. We met Chris while working on a project in the Shetlands for Best Made Co. He moved there from England some time ago and has built a life for himself amongst the once derelict stone walls of Garths Croft, the property he bought and has since renovated. In this episode, Matt talks to Chris about his life on the island, the traditions of the place and why living a quieter, simpler, deliberately harder life might be the way forward.Listen for stories of island life, living in harmony with the land, and escapism.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-adventure-podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Gemma and Ian chat to Rosemary Lunn.   Rosemary is a well-known Dive Industry Professional from the UK.  In this episode Rosemary talks about her recent dives in the Shetland Islands and answers some of our listen questions that include methods used to equalise and choosing whether to use a wing or BCD set up. https://rosemarylunn.wordpress.com/about/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/rosemary-e-lunn-roz-23792121/?originalSubdomain=uk https://www.facebook.com/tumc.co.uk https://www.instagram.com/msrozlunn/ https://twitter.com/Roz_UWMarketing

Chris Tait is a unique writer, poet and storyteller from the Shetland Isles. Chris tells the story of how Asperger's Syndrome influences her writing and about the journey from her island home to poetry and storytelling performances across Scotland and beyond.

Chris Tait is a unique writer, poet and storyteller from the Shetland Isles. Chris tells the story of how Asperger's Syndrome influences her writing and about the journey from her island home to poetry and storytelling performances across Scotland and beyond.

Chris Tait is a unique writer, poet and storyteller from the Shetland Isles. Chris tells the story of how Asperger's Syndrome influences her writing and about the journey from her island home to poetry and storytelling performances across Scotland and beyond.

I am so thrilled to welcome Emily Hague to The Joy of SUP Podcast today. I discovered Emily on Instagram and was so interested in her work with On The Killer Whale Trail. Emily is a marine biologist, specialising in marine mammals - whales, dolphins and seals. As well as her research, she has a deep care and passion for the sea and all that encompasses it. She is a volunteer lifeboat crew onboard the Anstruther RNLI Lifeboat. She also loves to spend her spare time walking or cycling coastal paths and beach cleaning. She loves getting in the sea itself, whether that's swimming, kayaking or more recently, paddleboarding! She is based in the beautiful East Neuk of Fife in Scotland, so mostly paddles around the skerries and rocks within the Firth of Forth. She also shares her wonderful paddles on the Shetland Isles. Emily runs On the Killer Whale Trail,  a social media platform dedicated to adventuring whilst looking for wildlife, with special highlights spotting killer whales in Shetland. She also runs the On the Litter Trail beach cleaning campaign, sponsored by Sea Changers. Through community action and team spirit the campaign collected over a tonne of litter in two weeks (including whilst paddleboarding!). Emily loves the freedom and sense of adventure that SUP brings. Whilst it can be fun to enjoy with friends, she finds a solo paddle magical, where you can really take time to enjoy the peace and calm that the ocean can bring. The sea, and all the wonderful creatures that inhabit it, are very close to Emily's heart  which is why she dedicates all her time to researching it, doing beach cleans, educating and encouraging others to enjoy it too.In this episode we also talk about:Being a member of RNLI Anstruther crewHow her Mum encouraged her love of orcas by telling her they were in the reservoirs of the Peak District!The devastating impact of plastic on wildlife in the oceanThe joy of community looking for orcasHer Bluefin 10 ft 8 paddleboardHer Batoko orca swimsuit You can find Emily:Instagram at @emilylhague and @onthekillerwhaletrail Twitter @emilyhague and @OntheKWTrail  Facebook On the Killer Whale TrailWebsite On The Killer Whale Trail You may also enjoy Hugh Harrop who photographs on Shetland Isles!I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I did recording it.! If you have any questions, please do get in touch on thejoyofsuppodcast@gmail.com.Instagram is @thejoyofsuppodcast_Follow #thejoyofsuppodcast on Twitter and InstagramFacebook TheJoyofSUPPodcastWebsite www.jomoseley.comIt would be fantastic if you could also rate and review us on Apple as it will help more people find our paddleboardingSUP sunshine! You can also follow so you never miss an episode! Wishing you sunshine and joy, thank you for listening, Jo x Please always put safety first and get the right advice for your training + body. Episode recorded December 2020.

Jenny and Annie take a dance across the mythologies of the northern lights of Scotland. Upon finding their Scots legends of the aurora borealis, they end up rather unexpectedly in the Battle of Flodden: a battle said to have been written in the sky. For this episode, we used the books: Rock-bound: a Story of the Shetland Isles by Jessie Margaret Edmondston Saxby published in 1877 and Fatal Rivalry, Flodden 1513 by George Goodwin published in 2013. We read extracted from the Fife Herald published on 3rd May 1838, the poem of Flodden by W E Ayton from Harper's new monthly magazine volume 28, and the song Northern Lights of Old Aberdeen by Mary Webb. We also retold this oral history from George Peterson: www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/en/fullrecord/77252 Stories of Scotland is a multi-award winning Scottish history podcast, proudly recorded in Inverness in the Highlands. We research our heritage and mythology podcast using archives, books, museum objects, and oral histories from across Scotland. You can support Stories of Scotland on Patreon! www.patreon.com/storiesofscotland

During this podcast I am in conversation with Claire Owen, the Head of Music Delivery at Music in Hospitals and Care. Claire oversees the execution of concerts nation-wide; which incorporates offices in Wales, Manchester and Edinburgh. Her greatest challenge is securing sponsors to fund the project and selling the concept of Live Concerts to organisations. Before her present role, she worked as a Theatre Director and in Stage Management. We began with chatting about current issues before talking about Claire's life, career and her present role with Music in Healthcare and Homes. I totally concur with Lincoln Noel who in his introduction of Claire to me wrote; “Claire is a beautiful, engaging and eloquent person to converse with”. Music in Hospitals & Care spreads Joy Through Live Music across the length and breadth of the UK, from the Shetland Isles and the Highlands of Scotland to Northern Ireland, the Valleys of Wales and down to the south coast of England. From lullabies for premature babies to old favourites for those living with dementia, they operate in a wide range of healthcare environments including hospitals, hospices, care homes, day centres, special schools and community settings. For more information, please click the link below: https://mihc.org.uk/

The EnFAIT consortium met at the head office of the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult in Glasgow just last month. We seized the opportunity to record several of them in conversation, discussing the project, commercial prospects for tidal power and even whether tidal turbines have personalities. Hosting was Vicky Coy, Project Manager at the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult, and responsible for managing and driving the organisation's portfolio of wave and tidal innovation. Taking part were: Lisa Ferrero, Senior Mechanical Engineer at Scottish tidal power pioneer Nova Innovation, where she helps design turbines from concept to installation, operation and maintenance. She was part of the engineering team that installed the world's first ever tidal power array in the Shetland Isles, the site of today's EnFAIT project. Alan Mortimer, Head of Innovation, at Wood Clean Energy. He has worked on a variety of wind, wave and tidal energy projects in. Alan previously headed up the innovation team at ScottishPower Renewables too. Tianna Bloise Thomaz, Research Associate in Marine Energy at the University of Edinburgh. She is an expert in novel methodologies for linking wave energy resources to operational costs. She is now developing a global economic model for wave and tidal technologies.

The Northern Isles, which consist of the two island groups of Shetland and Orkney, have been inhabited since prehistoric times but were formally annexed by the Norwegian king Harald Hårfagre in around 875 after he subdued the Vikings who used the islands as a base from which to raid Norway and ...

British writer Ann Cleeves discusses Raven Black, the haunting first novel in her award-winning Shetland crime series, with presenter Harriett Gilbert, a studio audience and readers around the world. On a remote Scottish island in the Shetland Isles, a teenage girl is found dead in a snow-covered field. Some years ago, another young girl disappeared in mysterious circumstances near to his house, but the body was never found. As Inspector Perez and local police pursue their investigation a veil of suspicion is thrown over the entire community. For the first time in years neighbours nervously lock their doors, whilst a killer lives on in their midst.

Welcome to episode #58 of ‘Beery Good Entertainment’. Lola and Linda discuss the latest season of 'Shetland'. Set on the wild Scottish, Shetland Isles, this murder mystery show hits all the right buttons. It's a favorite here at BeeryGE. But, will the new season live up to expectations? After that, we take a trip back to 1995 to experience some classic Rowan Atkinson in ‘The Thin Blue Line’, a comedy set in an English police station. As always we'll be sipping some fine craft beverages including a very special mead and a northern beer from a very well known TV show. Enjoy! Presented by: @S0rceress0 (Linda) @LolaLariscy Producer/Production Manager: @CheDean Show Notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZlhxSzUIv9UGRCxa2LJwIQ8ZuuhZmT2G8B0wwEuvy6Y/edit?usp=sharing If you're interested in supporting our shows, please check out: https://www.lolalariscy.com https://www.s0rceress0.com/my-books/ https://www.s0rceress0.com/podcast Support the podcast by using our affiliate links: Humble Bundle: https://www.humblebundle.com/store?partner=beerygoodentertainment Amazon Affiliate: https://www.amazon.com/?tag=beeryge-20 Good Vibrations: https://www.goodvibes.com/s?/&kbid=260711&m=198&i=975 Brewers Friend: https://www.brewersfriend.com/#a_aid=5c71c6f21643d Join our MeWe group: https://mewe.com/join/beerygoodentertainment Intro and Outro Music by: https://www.bensound.com

Episode 76 Ross Manson returns for a third podcast! In this podcast we discuss his move to the Shetland Isles, traveling abroad for work, time and space, and the continuing degradation of politics and, by extension society. KillieCast is focused on highlighting the positive events, groups, and news for the comminity of Kilmarnock, Scottland. You can find them here https://soundcloud.com/user-379160960   Itunes https://tinyurl.com/y97p58w t   YouTube https://tinyurl.com/yalqq4p3   Get Connected to KillieCast Facebook https://www.facebook.com/KillieCast/   Instagram https://www.instagram.com/killie_cast/   Twitter https://twitter.com/killiecast?lang=en   Also check out Ross’ Twitter https://twitter.com/manson44 to follow his #365photochallenge     My Links Instagram https://www.instagram.com/wholesomehoodlum/ Twitter https://twitter.com/HoodWholesome Twitch https://go.twitch.tv/wholesomehoodlum [WHP] Available On Itunes https://tinyurl.com/yaq5576c Google Play https://tinyurl.com/ydxtwdbl Stitcher https://tinyurl.com/y738qu3m  

We hang out with Adventure Photographer and Fujifilm Ambassador Dan Bailey and in an extended 35-minute first segment we get a passionate and convincing argument why we all should be using the Fuji camera system, what he did to become a Fujifilm ambassador, what makes him an "Adventure Photographer" and then end with tales from his adventure out in Scotland at the Shetland Isles riding a bike through the landscape capturing the whole experience with his Fuji camera on his back.  In the second segment we find ourselves suffering from envy as we hear the incredible details of what it is like being a pilot and owning your own Cessna Airplane in Alaska and getting to take off in the afternoon and travel the skies like we would travel country roads. Dan explains how amazing it is to fly around the mountain peaks with his Fuji in one hand and the other controlling the plane and getting to control the scene by flying around until he gets the light and angles JUST right. What an amazing thing to hear and what a terrible thing to hear. We spent the rest of the night daydreaming about owning our own plane someday and getting the chance to fly 45-minutes from home to an isolated glacier, land and explore the terrain as easily as we could drive down the street to a park and walk around with our cameras. Insane with jealousy is an understatement.  Lastly for Tip of the Week and Gear Time, Dan offers us some great lessons that years of experience has taught him like his method of finding a composition that he calls "Seeing Geometrically" and teaches us how to take advantage of that kind of anticipating the scene to get our best shot possible in action photography. Then if any of you own or are considering getting into the Fuji system, Dan has a great comprehensive eBook on the Fuji X-Series cameras and he explains to us what we can learn from his 250+ page eBook! In the very end, Dan exhorts us all to HAVE FUN in our Photography. Do not be intimidated, it should be a fun time to spend our time and do something creatively. Get out there and have fun!  Follow Dan Bailey at his Instagram @danbaileyphoto or from his website and blog at DanBaileyPhoto.com. Have or want a Fuji X-series camera? Buy Dan's best selling eBook here: http://danbaileyphoto.com/blog/master-your-fujifilm-camera-with-my-x-series-unlimited-ebook/

Episode 48 brings you a good blether with my Mum who is becoming well acquainted with life on Fair Isle in the Shetland Isles.  

James Morton was runner-up on The Great British Bake Off 2012. He learned to bake with his grandmother, growing up in the Shetland Isles. With the Christmas season in mind, James shows Jane how to cook the perfect Stollen.

Catriona Macdonald is a proud bearer of one of the world's great fiddle traditions, that of the Shetland Isles, and widely respected as both a member of Blazin Fiddles, founder of String Sisters and a gifted fiddler in her own right. This Tune Up tour brings a rare chance for Catriona to play many of the traditional venues which support the vibrant folk scene in Scotland. The concerts will be based around the new material found on Catriona`s long awaited new album Over the Moon with David Milligan (piano) , Conrad Ivitsky (double bass) and James Mackintosh (drums/percussion) comprising the all star band who play on both record and tour.