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The Stroma Sessions - Episode 4

Found footage drama charting the time a group of musicians spent on an abandoned Scottish island. With Nico gone, Riley tries to make sense of the group's situation.

'New drama: The Blackletter Quartet', a new music ensemble, had an idea: to write and record an album on Stroma, an abandoned island off the north coast of Scotland. Five years after the Quartet's disappearance, 'The Stroma Sessions' - a series of audio files charting the musicians time on the island and the music they created there - were discovered on the internet. Stroma was abandoned in the early 1960s: its few remaining buildings stand dilapidated, battered by the North Sea. The four musicians sought inspiration in the ruined houses and unforgiving weather. They wanted to make music in a ghost town. The evidence suggests they found what they were looking for. With Nico gone, Riley tries to make sense of their situation Written by Timothy X Atack Sound design by Steve Bond Executive producer, Sara Davies Produced by Nicolas Jackson Directed by Isolde Penwarden 'The Stroma Sessions' is an Afonica production for ±«Óãtv Radio 3.

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