The 53rd episode of 'Lifestory' is an unreleased show from our audio archives, an interview with the wonderful Evelyn Whitfield who sadly left us on 18th December 2023. In this episode (at the age of 77) Evelyn tells us about growing up in Auchtermuchty, of her teaching career and a huge range of volunteering posts, from St Columba's Hospice to the RVS, Reading Newspapers for the blind and The Wee Museum of Memory.

Many thanks to Setuniman on Freesound.org for the use of their music.

In the 51st episode of Lifestory we are joined by the wonderful Margaret Ann Rutter in our Wee Museum studio. At the age of 80, Ann takes us through her family history via a rocky relationship with her Mother, vacations in Cornwall, teaching and lecturing in Edinburgh and a near death experience on the water, as well as everything in between!

Episode 52 of Lifestory sees us joined by the remarkable David Flucker, who is still volunteering for the St Columba's Hospice charity shop in Ocean Terminal at the wonderful age of 102 years old. David begins by taking us back in time to his childhood growing up in a family of fishermen and attending school in Newhaven in the 1920s and on to a wonderful series of adventures. We travel with David from Scotland to Australia, and later hear tales of standing up to racism in South Africa at the height of apartheid and being shot down over Egypt in the second world war. David only retired for the second time at 95 years old, and has packed an awful lot into those years!