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A Requiem for St Kilda

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

Seventy-five years ago, Britain's most remote community disappeared. The last 36 St Kildans were evacuated from their islands, 110 miles west of the Scottish mainland, after 5,000 years of habitation. Scottish poet Kenneth Steven weaves a piece of tweed in sound to commemorate life and death in St Kilda. Repeated from Sunday

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