GMB. "Conflict of Cultures in the Island Winter." Week-end Scotsman, 16 December 1972, p. 2.
The impact of television during winter upon the traditional cultural patterns of Orkney. "The advent of television in the later 1950s nearly killed many of these communal activities. That cyclop's eye, it seemed, might be the death of drama in Orkney."
The following announcement had appeared in the Scotsman the previous day (15 December 1972, p. 1): "George Mackay Brown is the observer of Orkney ways, and their poet. From time to time in 'The Week-end Scotsman' he will look at how change is affecting the life of the islands: the first of his reports appears tomorrow."
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