Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 5 hours ago

---

A documentary slice of Christie Williamson's life in Glasgow, narrated in Jamaican by Audrey West. Alongside samples of Christie's poetry and conversation, this film contributes to a small collection which forms one part of an extension series of the Island Voices project, in which its "capture and curation" model is used for more languages in addition to English and Gaelic. (NB The YouTube subtitling function does not yet recognise Jamaican, so the subtitles here, while conforming with the approved Cassidy-JLU orthography for the Jamaican language, are filed under the title "English".)

The Christie Williamson Collection:

Shetlander in Glasgow documentary in various languages –

Shaetlan youtu.be/K3pymD78pUc
Gaelic youtu.be/XvHGBteZyA8
English youtu.be/kes84Jw-Ceo
Portuguese youtu.be/Amy8JNzFobs
Welsh youtu.be/0b8PLDdkaQ0
Jamaican youtu.be/s4X_Q056OlY
Catalan youtu.be/SocFvy26MmE

Conversation –

Part 1 youtu.be/Xbv9gnX-sBo
Part 2 youtu.be/ij5q4TpP4U0

Poetry –

1 (from Oo an Feddirs) youtu.be/gZNs-nE-CYI
2 (from Doors tae Naewye) youtu.be/af9wq1cxzos
3 (from Break in Case of Silence & What Winter Wants) youtu.be/9gDCxUKSJZw

Further background:

guthan.wordpress.com/2024/06/10/shaetlan-voice-in-exile