Summer at the Shielings

Kathleen Carragher travels to the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides to find out how transhumance, the summer migration of livestock, lasted in one area of the island into the 1970s.

An extended feature for BBC Radio 4’s Farming Today

Broadcast August 2025

....featured in BBC Radio 4’s ‘Pick of the Week’

Presenter:  Kathleen Carragher

Producer:  John Deering