An account of four key days in the year by poet and novelist Lavinia Greenlaw. 1: Winter Solstice.
Maes Howe in Orkney is a burial chamber constructed thousands of years ago and later sacked by Viking tomb raiders. On the year's shortest day the setting sun shines directly onto the back wall of the stone chamber and floods the room with light and magic. With novelist Duncan Maclean. ProducerTim Dee