Beneath the broad Alaskan sky, long-buried artefacts spill from the thawing tundra. In the eroding sand dunes of a Scottish island, preserved Neolithic hearths and homes are uncovered by the wind. And in a grandmother’s tenement flat, memories surface of a long-ago mining accident and a mother who was kind.

Award-winning poet Kathleen Jamie's essays reflect on time, memory and our connections to the past. She travels to Westray, one of the Orkney Islands, to work on an archaeological dig.

Read by Maureen Beattie
Abridged by Linda Cracknell
Producer: Eilidh McCreadie Show less