Music in Aberdeen will feature in a BBC Radio 4 documentary which is due to air on Tuesday 10 July at 11.30am.

'Aberdeen: Silver City' will open the third series of music writer Laura Barton's Notes from a Musical Island, as she visits another four locations in Britain to listen closely to the music found in different landscapes.

"Sparkling silver in the sun, but a dour grey under a heavy sky, Aberdeen is built from granite hewn from local quarries and nestled on Scotland's north-east coast between green hills and the forbidding North Sea. In recent years, gas and oil money has changed the city, bringing in workers from around the world, but it has retained a distinctly Scottish culture.

Laura walks the golden sands of Aberdeen beach with singer-songwriter Kathryn Joseph, whose recent success has taken her to live in Glasgow and catches an impromptu folk performance in the Blue Lamp. She visits daughter and father Katie and Charley Buchan, who perform as Best Girl Athlete and live at the top of a high rise in the centre of the city; she also accompanies the 'psych folk' musician Alan Davidson on a stroll along the River Don and through Old Aberdeen."

The programme airs on Tuesday 10 July at 11.30am and will be available on the BBC iPlayer here.