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Diary of a Shopkeeper, 26th July

Part 330: Poor Orcadians

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Diary of a Shopkeeper, 19th July

Part 329: A glass of wine with Sam Neill

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Diary of a Shopkeeper, 12th July

Part 328: Seeing double

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Diary of a Shopkeeper, 5th July

Part 327: Ness of Brodgar: Mystery Solved?

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Diary of a Shopkeeper, 28th June

Part 326: Water Sound? Sure!

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Diary of a Shopkeeper, 21st June

Part 325: What’s (going) on?

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Diary of a Shopkeeper, 14th June

Part 324: Warm welcomes

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Diary of a Shopkeeper, 7th June

Part 323: Orkney’s airline?

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Diary of a Shopkeeper, 31st May

Part 322: Shop loco!

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Diary of a Shopkeeper, 24th May

Part 321: Neil Gunn, Blood Hunt

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Diary of a Shopkeeper, 17th May

Part 320: Neil Gunn, The Serpent

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Diary of a Shopkeeper, 10th May

Part 319: Neil Gunn, The Grey Coast

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Diary of a Shopkeeper, 3rd May

Part 318: The high road to Sleet Moss

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Diary of a Shopkeeper, 26th April

Part 317: A drive in the country

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Diary of a Shopkeeper, 19th April

Part 316: The price of wine…is not always what it seems

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Diary of a Shopkeeper, 12th April

Part 315: Tourism: One Big Idea.

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Diary of a Shopkeeper, 5th April

Part 314: Captain Puggie and his Yellow Friends

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Diary of a Shopkeeper, 29th March

Part 313: Spring Flings

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Diary of a Shopkeeper, 22nd March

Part 312: Laura Drever and the poetry of placenames

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Diary of a Shopkeeper, 15th March

Part 311: Lost?

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