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Fiona's Travels
by Fiona Frank
Traditional music and fascinating conversations
Episodes
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Growing up Jewish on Shetland - with Shetland Fiddling! Fiona's travels episode 7, August 2019
This episode, the last in Series One, features Ethel Hofman, author of Mackerel at Midnight: Growing up Jewish in the Shetland Isles (Revised edition Mercat Press, Edinburgh, 2006), the Shetland Fiddlers Society, and young Shetland fiddler Amber Thompson. I set myself a challenge - to make a...
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Conversations at the Yiddish Summer Weimar, Fiona's Travels Podcast no 6 (August 2019)
This episode of Fiona’s Travels was recorded in August 2018 and mixed in 2019, and includes a selection of amazing music from around last year's Yiddish Summer Weimar festival where I spent three weeks volunteering - cleaning, working in the cafe, helping in the kitchen... as well as being part…
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Ed Harper, West Cork goat farmer: "following a dream" - Fiona's Travels episode five
This podcast is an interview with goat farmer, political thinker and singer - and my friend - Ed Harper, of Cape Clear Island, West Cork. It is published on the fortieth birthday of his farm Cleire Goats - 18th July 2019. Happy Birthday to the farm! I don’t know if Ed’s the only blind goat farmer...
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"To be the best you can" - an interview with thatcher Matt Whelan. Fiona's Travels episode 4.
Matt Whelan was the first person I interviewed when I started travelling and making podcasts in May 2018. I saw an intriguing little scarecrow on top of one of his thatching jobs across from the cottage I was staying in in Kilmore Quay; I found a calendar celebrating his thatching career in the...
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Peter Rankin, 1950-2018. A life in politics, and a sense of justice. Fiona's Travels episode 3.
Fiona’s Travels episode 3. Peter Rankin, 1950-2018. A life in politics and a sense of justice. (Plus Syrian dancers in Scotland!) Peter Rankin was my brother in law. He was the leader of Preston City Council with political roots in Northern Ireland where he grew up reading about civil unrest in...
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An interview with Alan Bern, director of the Yiddish Summer Weimar - "Getting to know 'The Other'". Fiona's Travels Episode Two.
I went travelling for six months in 2018, and recorded lots of fascinating conversations and traditional music and here's the second of my podcasts from that time. I spent three weeks at the Yiddish Summer Weimar, hosted by the ‘Other Music Academy‘ at Weimar in central Germany, in August 2018. I...
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Abortion and the Republic of Ireland "I'm looking forward to the day when I don't have to tell my story", an interview with Vanessa O'Sullivan. - Fiona's Travels Episode One.
One year on from the abortion referendum in Ireland 25th May 2019, abortion is now available for women in Ireland up to 12 weeks. Beyond that, it is available under some circumstances, but women may still have to travel if they go beyond 12 weeks. And we have to remember it's still illegal in...
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