Harbour Voices

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Harbour Voices Podcast

Harbour Voices is a series of true story podcasts celebrating the lives and livelihoods of people who call the harbour area of Aberdeen home. Supported by the Year of Scottish Stories 2022 Communities Stories fund and Creative Scotland's Culture Collective fund. The ships horn has been recorded by Milo and is distributed by Free Sound https://freesound.org/people/milo/sounds/23722/ and it’s use is licenced under a Creative Commons licence https://creativecommons.org Music by Marie Driver and Geraldine Heaney Produced by @openroadltd

  1. Festival of the Sea: Willi Deas, skipper of the Reaper

    21 AUG

    Festival of the Sea: Willi Deas, skipper of the Reaper

    As part of Aberdeen’s Festival of the Sea 2024, we created a special series of our Harbour Voices podcast. The second episode in this series features an interview with Willie Deas, skipper of The Reaper - a former Fifie Sailing Herring Drifter.  This type of boat was the most popular design of fishing boat on the East Coast of Scotland for the greater part of the 19th and early 20th Centuries. Today The Reaper is the flagship of the Scottish Fisheries Museum, Reaper and is berthed in Anstruther harbour outside the Museum. She is now equipped as a floating museum of the herring industry and sailed to Aberdeen to be part of the Festival of the Sea programme.  In this episode Wille shares his lifetime of knowledge of The Reaper, fishing industry and the sea.

    34 min

  2. 25 JULY

    Festival of the Sea: Hans Unkles

    Fisherman Hans Unkles wants a different way of doing things. With a band of fellow eco-aware fishermen, he took apart his old boat and refited it with cutting-edge electronic tech. In this Harbour Voices podcast we take a deep dive with Hans into his building, learning, making mistakes, chopping and welding a path to an easier, and more environmentally friendly way of fishing.

    41 min
  3. Chris Gove Extended Podcast

    2 APR

    Chris Gove Extended Podcast

    Chris Gove has a long family history linked with Old Torry and many fabulous stories of the Aberdeen’s harbour and fishing industry to tell. This extended version of his previous episode of Harbour Memories captures of few of the best.

    32 min
  4. Harbour Memories 5: Joyce Cairns

    25 JAN

    Harbour Memories 5: Joyce Cairns

    Scottish painter and printmaker Joyce Cairns lived and worked in Fittie for many years. The Fittie Community Hall on New Pier Road is her former studio and here she created a large body of work all inspired by the community and harbour. Joyce is the first woman president of the Royal Scottish Academy and in this podcast she shares her rich memories of Fittie – its people and cats – and the influence of living close to water on her work.

    21 min
  5. Harbour Memories 4: Dorothy Young and Louise Ouston

    3 JAN

    Harbour Memories 4: Dorothy Young and Louise Ouston

    We’re reaching across the generations of Fittie in this Harbour Memories podcast episode. Dorothy Young has been a Fittie resident for over 30 years and her granddaughter Louise Ouston has been a regular visitor since she was a child. Between them they recall the Millennium new year at Aberdeen harbour and the social life of the community old and new.

    20 min
  6. Harbour Memories 3: Norma Reid

    13/12/2023

    Harbour Memories 3: Norma Reid

    Norma Reid’s family have lived in Fittie for generations. In this episode she shares her memories of growing up in the community, the fishing industry that many residents worked in and the strong women who have influenced her life.

    21 min
  7. Harbour Memories 2: Chris Gove

    04/12/2023

    Harbour Memories 2: Chris Gove

    Chris Gove has a long family history linked with Old Torry and many fabulous stories of the Aberdeen’s harbour and fishing industry to tell. This episode of Harbour Memories captures of few of the best.

    21 min
  8. Harbour Memories 1: Margaret Wright

    17/11/2023

    Harbour Memories 1: Margaret Wright

    In this first episode of our Harbour Memories series, Margaret Wright shares insights on growing up in the Torry area of Aberdeen and the influence of the fishing industry and maritime life on the community.

    16 min
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About

Harbour Voices is a series of true story podcasts celebrating the lives and livelihoods of people who call the harbour area of Aberdeen home. Supported by the Year of Scottish Stories 2022 Communities Stories fund and Creative Scotland's Culture Collective fund. The ships horn has been recorded by Milo and is distributed by Free Sound https://freesound.org/people/milo/sounds/23722/ and it’s use is licenced under a Creative Commons licence https://creativecommons.org Music by Marie Driver and Geraldine Heaney Produced by @openroadltd

Information

  • Creator
    Open Road
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2024
  • Episodes
    21
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Open Road
  • Show Website
    Harbour Voices

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