There's a lovely tale about an early Flora MacNeil fan calling her in the Castlebay telephone exchange and since she wasn't likely to be too busy, requesting his favourite song – again.
Within a few years, having moved to the Edinburgh switchboard, Flora was bewitching admirers including Charles Laughton, Alan Lomax and David Attenborough, and in time she took the songs she grew up inhaling like Barra air around the world.
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