Before you listen to this BBC podcast, I want to tell you why I love podcasting.

Hi, my name's Tommy Dixon, and I make podcasts for the BBC.

I'm a big fan of stories, always loved a good book.

But when I started commuting for my first job, I discovered podcasts.

I was blown away by how a creative idea and the right mixture of sounds could take you into

a whole new world full of incredible stories. You know, the type that make you go, wow. And that kind of inspired me to

give it a go myself, which to cut a long story short led to a BBC training scheme and a whole

new career giving other people that exact same feeling. So if you want to hear amazing stories

that make you go wow like I did,'re just a tap or click away on BBC

sounds the wind is still blowing on the mainland of Orkney so I'm heading towards a stone

and this is when I find Sandra Miller because you knew this is the stone to come to why did

you know it's an age old secret here in Orley. It doesn't matter what direction the wind's

flowing in. There's always a standing stone to hide behind.

And also the sheep had been here, so you knew it was a good one.

Yes, and you know it's a good one then.

It is a really fearsome winter day. The sun has just come out though and actually these stones are therefore casting shadows across the field around us. These are not just any old stones. No, absolutely not.

This is the standing stones of Stennis, part of the heart of Neolithic-Otney World Heritage Site.

So you will have seen either been to physically or seen photos of Stonehenge same idea same idea the

earliest date from Stonehenge is roughly around the same date as people were

building stone circles here to in Orkney

So there are four of them left how many would they originally been originally we think

there was space for 12 but only 11 stones maybe appear to have actually

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