Orkney Folk Festival chairman Bob Gibbon has set out to maintain the high standard set by Johnny and Marie Mowat. Bob tells Living Orkney “ one of the surprisingly easy parts of the job has been attracting artists to the Festival.”

Stromness businessman and habitual entrepreneur Mike Craigie looks back on interesting times, and talks about surviving the challenges of a leaky petrol tank and the global market

Painter Mark Scadding’s Orkney is a green place, with familiar figures, landscape and livestock in everyday scenes. L C Littlejohn meets the man behind the pictures, learns a bit about what makes him tick, and discovers the prodigious talent which drives him

Living Orkney publishes There was a banging at the door - the short story which won the 2008 Marjorie Linklater Award for young Charlotte Slater from Firth

The ninth Earl of Orkney turns out to be a really approachable bloke. He tells Lorraine Shearer about his home in Canada, his love for Orkney, his pride in his role, and his efforts to build stronger links with our Canadian cousins

Living Orkney meets The Moonshiners - a seriously good four-piece bluegrass band with a reputation on the festival circuit for lively performances who will be appearing in the county early in the month

Author and wine lover Duncan McLean sets off on his luscious A – Z of Wine, with an Orkney slant – from Holm to Mount Horrocks!