Shetland Voices

Born and raised in Lerwick, Caroline Adamson had a variety of jobs before she discovered the role that would become her passion. Twenty-five years ago, she founded the award winning, non-profit Shetland Community Bike Project which is based at Lerwick’s Commercial Road. The initiative provides opportunities for people with barriers to employment reach their full potential, and is hugely successful in what it does. In this latest edition of Shetland Voices, Jane Moncrieff hears about Caroline’s early life and how her previous experience led her to the project and how it has flourished since its inception in 1999.

This month's Shetland Voices finds Jane Moncrieff in conversation with a very well-known voice to Radio Shetland listeners. Caroline McKenzie/Moyes has recently retired from a 40 year career with the BBC. But she has had other strings to her bow including teacher, landlady and hotelier. She and husband Peter will be leaving the isles in May to take up their new life in Inverness.

OVER recent months journalist Jen Stout has become a bit of a household name nationally with her passionate reporting of the plight of ordinary Ukrainians suffering from the onslaught of a brutal and unjustified Russian aggression. After a number of months, first on the Romanian border and then in the war-torn country itself, Jen arrived home to Shetland a few weeks ago to recover from an intensive six-month journey which, ironically, started in Russia, a country she had longed to return to since she was a teenager. Here, she opens up to Jane Moncrieff as part of our Shetland Voices series, and speaks about the many people she met while in Russia, Romania and Ukraine, but also about her childhood in Fair Isle, being an angry teenager in Shetland and making your way in life with no or little money.