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Radio 3,01 Apr 2024,14 mins

SeriesErland Cooper's Phantom Islands

Hildaland

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Join Orcadian composer Erland Cooper on a late-night voyage around the Atlantic in search of Phantom Islands... Tonight Orcadian historian and storyteller Tom Muir is our guide to the myth and magic of Hildaland, one of Orkney's vanishing islands and the summer home of the Finfolk. Score by Erland Cooper Recorded at Studio Orphir Violin, Freya Goldmark Cello, Klara Shumann Soprano, Lottie Greenhow and Josephine Stephenson The Lost Sister - a poem by John Burnside - read by Keeley Forsyth Producer: Victoria Ferran Exec producer: Susan Marling A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 3

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