Smartify: Audio Collection
What does the 'spirit' of the Highlands and Islands mean to you? Here, listen and discover the 'spirit' of the Highlands and Islands through the eyes of the people who know it best in this series of interviews carried out by the brilliant team at Smartify.
In Focus: Shetland Crofting
"I guess there was something in me that motivated me to want to do something with the land or the sea...I had no desire to have clean hands!"
Favourite Places: Portavadie
"...you get the beautiful view back and you get to drive and see Bute from the other side of the water..."
Favourite Places: Levenwick
"...I don't need to go further, everything is there...it's very, very special to me."
Favourite Places: Uradale
"Uradale is home. I'm extremely fortunate in that I've declared UDI in Uradale..."
Favourite Places: The Big Strand
"...it's such a calm, relaxing place. It makes you slow down and just enjoy what's about you."
Favourite Places: Lochinver
"...there's just something really peaceful and beautiful about it, but savage..."
In Focus: A Lewis Potter
Join Charly Hamlyn as shares the broad strokes of the creative process behind the creation of her ceramics and finding inspiration of the Isle of Lewis.
Favourite Places: Neist Point
"...we had to make sure we had enough rope to get to the bottom of it...it was like 800ft!"
Favourite Places: Thurso East
"...it's just the freedom and when you're out there, nothing else matters."
Favourite Places: Bridgend Woods
...round every corner on the pathways which are open to all you find a Turner painting...
