The Vikings were master explorers, traversing the Atlantic between the late 8th and mid-11th centuries. From Newfoundland to Greenland, their longships carried them across vast seas. Among their ...

NEIL OLIVER:One stormy day, sometime in the second half of the ninth century, a Viking ship sailing from Norway to the Faroe Islands was blown off course. After several more days sailing ...

On the final part of his Atlantic travels Martin Clunes visits the windswept Faroe Islands, shaped over 60 million years by volcanoes, their dramatic cliffs home to thousands of colourful puffins and ...

BBC Radio 3 at 4pm on 25, 26 and 27 December. Listen on BBC Sounds until January. In episode one of Faroe Islands Sound Walk, we journey through the dramatic landscape of the north-eastern island ...

He dives in freezing waters for giant horse mussels and plays electric bass with a Viking heavy metal star. Midway between Scotland and Iceland, the Faroe Islands are a group of 18 islands at the ...