MOFFAT, A.: To the Island of Tides: A Journey to Lindisfarne (Unabridged)

Format:

Sound recording

Contributor:

Moffat, Alistair Author

Naxos Digital Services US

Series:

Naxos Music Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spoken Word.

Local Subjects:

Spoken Word.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong : Naxos Digital Services US Incorporated 2019.

System Details:

Mode of access: Available online.

Contents:

To the Island of Tides (NaN min. NaN sec.)(12 sec.)

Preface (08 min. 40 sec.)

Part 1. Chapter 1 (10 min. 16 sec.)

By the time we passed the last of the fenced... (10 min. 36 sec.)

Chapter 2 (07 min. 57 sec.)

What Cuthbert saw, and whether or not it really was... (06 min. 21 sec.)

Having discovered the sign for the real Brotherstone... (10 min. 13 sec.)

Originally, guising at Hallowe'en did not involve... (09 min. 42 sec.)

Chapter 3 (10 min. 17 sec.)

From the farm at Third, the old road began to climb... (09 min. 06 sec.)

Continuity and attachment to place are rarely more... (12 min. 58 sec.)

Some time around 522, before Columba sailed to... (12 min. 22 sec.)

Beyond the mound, the long straight track... (13 min. 07 sec.)

Chapter 4 (14 min. 04 sec.)

Particularly in dry summers, aerial photographs... (08 min. 16 sec.)

As I followed Cuthbert through a landscape... (09 min. 23 sec.)

Keeping the dead close can make the future... (10 min. 32 sec.)

On the windswept rock that is Inner Farne... (12 min. 09 sec.)

Now, this borders on Pythonesque pastiche... (09 min. 24 sec.)

Chapter 5 (11 min. 03 sec.)

When I found myself at St Andrews University... (12 min. 52 sec.)

Two bats were feeding, swooping around the porch... (09 min. 21 sec.)

After spending time listening to the sounds... (09 min. 09 sec.)

I wanted to walk beside the Tweed near a strange... (13 min. 37 sec.)

Across the busy road that skirts the deep ditch... (11 min. 03 sec.)

Little more than a mile downstream from Kelso... (11 min. 12 sec.)

By contrast with me, my wife has led a very... (08 min. 51 sec.)

Creation looked well that morning, man's as well... (11 min. 03 sec.)

Chapter 6 (09 min. 05 sec.)

The map also marks the site of St Cuthbert's Chapel... (10 min. 13 sec.)

As a historian I have always tried, as far as is possible... (08 min. 56 sec.)

At the end of the seventh century, and for some... (06 min. 51 sec.)

After 1860, Ford was almost entirely rebuilt... (08 min. 19 sec.)

Chapter 7 (09 min. 31 sec.)

The night before I left to complete the last part... (09 min. 01 sec.)

At a place appropriately named Blawearie... (10 min. 47 sec.)

Near Gatehouse of Fleet, Trusty's Hill seems also to... (08 min. 34 sec.)

All that exists to characterise the culture of these... (10 min. 05 sec.)

Part 2. Chapter 8 (11 min. 43 sec.)

St Mary's Church is old. Some of its masonry dates to... (12 min. 01 sec.)

Partly because surviving fragments of classical... (08 min. 49 sec.)

Looking down at the ruins of the priory, the red... (08 min. 46 sec.)

One of my earliest memories is of my dad... (09 min. 14 sec.)

Chapter 9 (09 min. 06 sec.)

When I left the shelter of the porch, the wind... (09 min. 05 sec.)

Aethelfrith's spectacular gains in the north... (11 min. 38 sec.)

Domhnall Ban's nickname of 'Crosd' is a Gaelic... (11 min. 32 sec.)

Chapter 10 (08 min. 31 sec.)

The Pathfinder map of Lindisfarne shows two wells. (10 min. 15 sec.)

At the eastern end of the long beach a rudimentary... (11 min. 17 sec.)

Near the end of the Crooked Lonnen... (02 min. 59 sec.)

Chapter 11 (10 min. 32 sec.)

The word 'vellum' comes from velin... (10 min. 38 sec.)

The castle first comes securely on record in 1548-9... (10 min. 29 sec.)

Raids around the coastal communities continued... (10 min. 59 sec.)

Bishop Aldhun was well connected locally with... (12 min. 31 sec.)

Chapter 12 (08 min. 12 sec.)

As with the great abbeys of the Tweed Valley... (05 min. 44 sec.)

Chapter 13 (11 min. 31 sec.)

We sailed between Brownsman Island and South... (07 min. 28 sec.)

Beyond the lighthouse was a sheer drop to the sea... (08 min. 37 sec.)

Epilogue (08 min. 03 sec.)

As I walked the banks of the Tweed and Till... (08 minutes 56 sec.)

Participant:

Rintoul, David, Reader -- Moffat, Alistair, Author

Notes:

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Streaming audio.

Publisher Number:

9781781983157

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.