BBC Radio Orkney

BBC Radio Orkney sounds like home if home is a windswept northern island. The station serves the Orkney archipelago, where folk music traditions run deep. Music programming is refreshingly unpretentious - Scottish folk sits next to mainstream pop, and it works. The presenters sound like they actually live there, not like generic voices reading from a script. Morning shows can drag with too much local news and fishing reports. But afternoon music blocks are worth the wait. Evening folk hour is the highlight: fiddles, accordions, and traditional ballads you won't hear anywhere else. The daytime…