Synopsis
Owen Sheers explores poetry set in the British landscape. He looks at George Mackay Brown's Hamnavoe and visits his home town of Stromness in the Orkneys.
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Andrina
Captain Torvald is a retired sea captain living alone in a remote cottage in Orkney. He is befriended by Andrina, who over and over again asks for a love story from his past, which he refuses to tell her. When he finally does, the consequences are by no means what he expected.
Alan Johnson: The Post Office and Me | WH Auden's "Night Mail"
Alan Johnson MP (and former postman) takes a ride on a Travelling Post Office - one of the mail-sorting trains that used to criss-cross the nation through the night and that were immortalised in the film Night Mail.