Dwelling

Rousay Tales

In this episode we’ll be finding out about the houses of the living and the dead. We travel back to Neolithic settlements and meet 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.

Contributors in order of appearance:

Narrator: James Grieve 2024

Dr Sarah Jane Gibbon 2024

James Yorston 1990

Anne Brundle 1990

Martin Carruthers 2024

Dan Lee 2024

Mrs Clouston 1989

Howie Firth c1970s

Willie Thomson c1970s

Kath Gourlay 1987

Helen Firth 1987

Alexina Craigie 1966

Ellen Grieve 2023

Athol Grieve 2023

Ann Marwick 1990

Ernest Marwick n.d.

Edda Mainland n.d.

Mrs Wylie 1966

Chris Gee 2024

This podcast series was created using material from Orkney Library & Archive, Rousay Remembered, University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute and contemporary recordings made with the community of Rousay.

Creative team: Produced by Kolekto (Mark Jenkins & Rebecca Marr) and University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute led by Dan Lee.

New recordings and editing by Mark Jenkins (Kolekto)

New music composed and played by James Watson (Wooden Sole Music)

The project has been funded by Orkney Island Council, Rousay Egilsay and Wyre Development Trust (REWDT), Orkney Archaeology Society (OAS) and North Isles Landscape Partnership Scheme (NILPS).