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Writing retreats and workshops are perennially popular with budding authors and poets. Vanessa Branson, the younger sister of Virgin Airline boss, Richard, runs occasional courses on Eilean Shona, a small island ,on the West coast of Scotland, which she has owned for twenty five years. Kathleen Carragher visited Eilean Shona to find out more about the workshops and Vanessa’s connection with the the island. 10-minute feature...

End of year reflections by two generations of “real” Derry Girls, discussing the impact of the television hit comedy series, the murder of journalist Lyra McKee, Brexit and everyday life in the border city. A short feature for BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour Broadcast December 2019   Presenter: Kathleen Carragher Producer: John Deering   [audio mp3="https://www.yamal.co.uk/cms/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/real-derry-girls-part-one-as-broadcast-24th-dec-1.mp3"][/audio]...

End of year reflections by two generations of “real” Derry Girls, discussing the impact of the television hit comedy series, the murder of journalist Lyra McKee, Brexit and everyday life in the border city. A short feature for BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour Broadcast December 2019   Presenter: Kathleen Carragher Producer: John Deering   [audio mp3="https://www.yamal.co.uk/cms/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/derry-girls-part-two-for-website.mp3"][/audio]...

A scheme by Scottish Women’s Aid to bring help to victims of domestic abuse living in isolated Highland communities. A short feature for BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour and BBC Radio Scotland’s Sunday Morning with…… Broadcast November 2019   Presenter: Kathleen Carragher Producer: John Deering   [audio mp3="https://www.yamal.co.uk/cms/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/ask-me-Womans-Hour-Part-One.mp3"][/audio]...

A scheme by Scottish Women’s Aid to bring help to victims of domestic abuse living in isolated Highland communities. A short feature for BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour and BBC Radio Scotland’s Sunday Morning with…… Broadcast November 2019   Presenter: Kathleen Carragher Producer: John Deering   [audio mp3="https://www.yamal.co.uk/cms/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/ask-me-Womans-Hour-PART-2.mp3"][/audio]...

Catholic parishioners on the remote Moidart peninsula, in the West of Scotland, are dismayed at the theft of a medieval hand bell from the ancient religious site of St. Finan’s Isle on Loch Shiel.  The theft occurred as the congregation celebrates the 250th anniversary of  the Moidart Mission when a young priest was sent by Rome to re-establish the church after decades of repression under the...

The Camanachd Association has appointed its first chaplain to the sport of shinty, at the Kyles Club in Argyllshire.  It hopes the initiative will be of particular value at a time when suicide is the leading cause of death amongst young men in the Scottish Highlands and when the sport has been shocked by the deaths of a number of players who took their own...

John Kinnear and Camilla Hellman, from the American-Scottish Foundation, on plans to develop an app of walking tours to celebrate the Scottish architects and builders who created some of New York’s most iconic landmarks including the Empire State Building. 10-minute feature for BBC Radio Scotland’s Afternoon Show Broadcast March 2019   Presenter: Kathleen Carragher Producer: John Deering   [audio mp3="https://www.yamal.co.uk/cms/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/new-york-1.mp3"][/audio]...