The St. Magnus Street Tapes
A reflection of 40 years of intermittent ethnographic research on the Shetland Islands. This is an experiment in intimate ethnography. Each episode of the "A-sides" follows a single theme. The same theme is explored on the "B-sides" but through contemporary fiction based on a tale found in Lawrence Tulloch's Shetland Folk Tales.
Podcasting since 2024 • 10 episodes
The St. Magnus Street Tapes
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Episode 10 B-Side: Community
This is the final episode of season one of The St. Magnus Street Tapes This palm of the hand story is loosely based on material found in Lawrence Tulloch’s Shetland Folk Tales, especially the enigmatic tale, “The Poisoned Six-Pence.” Episode 10...
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Episode 9 B-Side: Memory
This is the penultimate episode of the first season of The St. Magnus Street Tapes."The body was found in the Old Cemetery in Lerwick by two young German tourists who were wandering around the Knab, just a bit turned around in the fog. ...
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Episode 8 - B-Side: Loss
"There was both panic and resignation in his voice. He was so alone, and had been for what seemed like a long time, for twenty years tramping from one continent to another, looking for knolls, and only finding the standing stones of stories and...
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