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Last broadcast on Sat, 23 Jan 2010, 21:30 on BBC Radio 3 (see all broadcasts).

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Residents of Fair Isle, Britain's most remote inhabited island, talk about the loss of fishing and seabird colonies caused through over-fishing by trawlers and global warming. They also speak about the loss of traditions that bind the community together and have been handed down from generation to generation.

With music by composer Damian Montagu and Fair Isle musicians, including his collaboration with singer Lise Sinclair on the song Empty Ocean. It sets Paul Rich's poem The Halibut Fisher's Saturday Night, about the great hauls of the past compared to today, where the ocean is empty of fish and the seabed smooth from over-fishing. There is also Sinclair's poem Silent, portraying the disappearance of seabirds from the skies because of the lack of sandeels for feeding.

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Damian Montagu

Damian Montagu is a composer and music producer. He attained an Arts degree from UEA before working in television (LWT and Planet 24) and marketing for four years.

He then embarked on a career as a composer and music producer, co-founding Montagu Bourcier in 1997, which quickly became one of London's leading composition and sound design companies. Montagu Bourcier worked with the world's leading agencies and production houses, and scored music on over one hundred and fifty brand campaigns.

His film scores include 'The Cookie Thief' (Palme d'Or nominated) and 'Subterrain', which was a collaboration with Michael Nyman, together with award winning films such as 'Football' (staring Helena Bonham-Carter). Documentary scores include The South Bank Show, Geo (a 20 part series) and 'The Science of Beauty', to name a few.

He has worked with top directors including Paul Arden, Daniel Barber, Roman Coppola, David Kellogg, Dominic Murphy, Gore Verbinsky and Will Van der Vlugt.

In 2007, he produced an album project for Katkhuda, a new solo project for Damian Katkhuda, founder of the band Obi and later that year produced a track to raise HIV and AIDS awareness in Cape Verde.

Also in 2007, together with David Hill, Damian formed Radial.

Lise Sinclair

Lise Sinclair lives in Fair Isle, the remote island midway between Shetland and Orkney, where she was born (1971) and brought up. She shifted seamlessly from a career in Fine Art at Glasgow School of Art to parenting and subsistence crofting with boat-builder husband Ian Best and gradually their four children. She is a singer and musician who has recorded and performed as widely as Reykjavik, Norway, Washington DC and Glasgow; she has recently composed and performed a suite for cello, harp and voice based on Shetland poetry. Her poems have been published in The New Shetlander and Pull of the Moon.

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  1. Sat 16 May 2009
    21:30
  2. Sat 23 Jan 2010
    21:30

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