Broadcast history

BBC World Service

Song of the Scallop

23 May 2009
Produced by Ellie Richold

Ellie Richold Ellie Richold produces a composed feature about the scallop. Following two modern day pilgrims along the Santiago de Compostela way, a pilgrimage that is marked by scallop shells, as well as hearing from scallop divers and farmers, the programme explores the millenia old symbolism of the scallop, bivalves which transcend all categories, classes, religions and races.

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