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On this month’s programme we hear that Franciscans used the excess of discards from shellfish in their building of churches, because costly stone churches were an abhorrence to St.Francis ….The future of lighthouses is discussed, an islander outlines why she wants to build a museum and there’s a little about sea shanties!

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