Our Love Letter to Scotland

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Winter Words Festival 21-23 Feb 2025

Our Love Letter to Scotland

New writing brought to life, to celebrate our love of our beautiful and unique country. This series was launched in 2020 as part of the #PFTLightHopeJoy platform that maintained our connection with audiences through the lockdown period. Featured here are short pieces by Stephen Greenhorn (Sunshine on Leith) , Martin McCormick (The Maggie Wall) and Hannah Lavery (Jekyll and Hyde).

Looking for Fireflies

by Stephen Greenhorn, read by Richard Standing

An image of the sun shining through trees, blue skies above and the leaves of the trees are green.

22 Mays

by Martin McCormick, read by Richard Standing

An image of the sun shining through trees, blue skies above and the leaves of the trees are green.

Meeting Tatha

by Hannah Lavery, read by Kirsty Stuart

Many tall stacks of metal structures with a bridge in front of them going from left to right, an overcast sky is seen and buildings behind the metal stacks

Here We Are Again

by Dan Rebellato, read by Jesse Fox

A river flowing in between two rock beds with green trees in the background below a blue sky with some clouds.

The Message

by Hannah Khalil, read by Rachael McAllister

A lake sits in the foreground of the photo with a large forrest behind, all trees are mixed colours of green and red.

Cold Water

by Oliver Emanuel, read by Kirsty Stuart

The River Tummel

This is the Scene

Written and read by Jenny Lindsay

A large river running through the middle of the image with trees on the left hand side of the image and the background, on the right is a field with minimal shrubbery.

Part of That World

by Michael John O’Neill, read by Richard Standing

An image of the front of the main building of Pitlochry Festival Theatre with a full glass front and lights shining through each one, the ground outside is all covered in grass with wooden benches populating different parts and an evening sky above

A Passing Dance

by Morna Young, read by Rachael McAllister

An image of a River running down the middle in between two sets of trees at either side, auburn skies above with a few clouds and the trees are all a rich shade of green.

Tatha Wakes Up From a Very Long Sleep

by Abi Zakarian, read by Barbara Hockaday

Full glass front of Pitlochry Festival Theatre main building, large grassy area in front of the building with the bandstand to the centre left of the photo

Shadows of Tay

by Jo Clifford, read by Blythe Jandoo

Image of a river with banks with trees on either side, in the distance is a bridge going over the river with blue skies and minimal clouds above

The Birch Tree Speaks

by Timberlake Wertenbaker, read by Jesse Fox

A close up image of a Birch Tree trunk with moss growing from it

A Man Stands in a Forest

by Peter Arnott, read by Richard Colvin

Early spring flowers and wooden hut

The Fish Woman

by Frances Poet, read by Kirsty Stuart

Multiple trees on a peninsula in the middle of a River with snow on the ground and the sun rising on the right side on the image

We All Need Company Sometimes

by Chinonyerem Odimba

A snowy woodland scene

This is Not Schiehhallion

by Ellie Stewart

A large body of water on a foggy day, a rock shore lies in the foreground with some shrubbery on the left. Acorss the water we see the faint outlines of hills through the fog.

After Miss Georgina Ballantine

by Linda McLean, read by Rachael McAllister

A pile of logs stretching from left to right in the image with tall trees looming far above with the canopy of the trees blocking out the sunlight.

Beautiful Boy

by Douglas Maxwell, read by Richard Standing

A motorboat on in the foreground of the image on a body of water, in the background are trees in autumnal colours with blue skies above and minimal clouds.