Story #7 – The Centre of Scotland Stone

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The Stories Behind the Stories #7 – The Centre of Scotland Stone

Hello all, Hamish Napier here, one of the storytellers for Badenoch Heritage. All of the stories contained within the new Badenoch – The Storylands smartphone app are here on the website now too. Each week I’ll go into a little more detail about the stories themselves: where they came from, where I read them, who I heard them from and a little more background about each one.

Music in this story:

Theme Music: ‘Forest Folk’ from album ‘The Woods’ by Hamish Napier
Highland Piper: Sandy MacDonell (Kingussie) – playing ‘The Atholl Highlanders’ (Perthshire tune, written by a Badenoch piper) and ‘Am Muileann Dubh’ (a traditional Badenoch tune that some folk say is from Atholl)!

Local Voice Actors in this story:

Hugh Dan MacLennan – national shinty commentator
Hamish Napier – narrator
Ruaridh Ormiston – the “Who cares!” shout
Cameron McNeish – as himself, and slo voice of Seton Gordon.
Peter Mackay – Spokesperson for Ordinance Survey on the BBC news
Shinty match crowd noise – sampled from several real videos of Highland shinty matches on YouTube.

Researchers for this story:

Ruaridh Ormiston, Hugh Dan MacLennan and Hamish Napier.

Download and listen to all 18 stories on the free Badenoch – The Storylands smartphone app, or alternatively you can listen on your computer and download them here.