Story #18 – The Shielings

Click the triangular ‘play’ buttons below to listen to each part of the 3-part story…

Part 1

Part 2

The Stories Behind the Stories

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.

CREDITS

Music

Voice Actors

• Hamish Napier – narrator, and voices of John Campbell Shairp, and Rev Thomas Sinton.
• Ingrid Henderson – poem collected by Rev Thomas Sinton; poem by Margaret Gow of Rannoch; ‘It’s from Lochaber the Thieves Came Upon Us’; a faerie woman in high Monadhliath Mountains of Badenoch;
• Yvonne Richmond – voice of Margaret Cameron of Garvamore, recorded in 1952 by Callum Maclean; and reading Mrs. Grant of Laggan.
• Marie-Louise Napier – voice of Mrs MacGregor of Insh and Mrs. Belle Milne, recorded in 1952 by Callum Maclean
• Sheila Mackay – Song ‘Last Night I was on the Shieling’,
• Còmhlan Luaidh Bhàideanach – (Badenoch Waulking Group): song ‘Loch Ericht’ by Margaret Gow.
• Seumas Grannd – Song about the Lesley Girls on the train
• Nicole Webber and Ingrid Henderson – Griatach and Catriona defending the MacPherson shieling from the Camerons

Researchers

Hamish Napier, with the kind help of several professional historians and heritage enthusiasts: including Seumus Grannd, Merryn Glover, Mary Mackenzie, Sheila Mackay and Ingrid Henderson.

Want to hear more stories like this?…

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.