The Stroma Sessions [Drama On 3]

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.

Written by Timothy X Atack

Created by Nicolas Jackson & Timothy X Atack

Music by Danny Norbury

Music performed by Danny Norbury, Hazel Correa and Patricia Ramirez.

Executive producer, Sara Davies

Sound design by Steve Bond

Directed by Nicolas Jackson, Steve Bond and Isolde Penwarden

Produced by Nicolas Jackson

The Stroma Sessions' is an Afonica production for BBC Radio 3.

Created by Nicolas Jackson and Timothy X Atack

Found footage drama charting the time a group of musicians spent on an abandoned island.