ABSTRACT
The author short story for Remote Performances draws on the remote Highland setting of Lochaber in which it was written; imagining a former military base turned outward-bound centre as the site for a Sixth Form school trip. 'High-Lands' is also set within a number of other vectors of distance and remoteness that are continually measured or calibrated in the story: between the north and south of the British Isles, or east and west across the Cold War 'iron curtain'; between rural communities and arts education; between the drawing of a forest and the forest itself; between working class subjects' and a Queen who must be looked upon with binoculars in her Silver Jubilee year. The radio transmissions and frequencies that within the story are both monitored on behalf of the state and listened-to for fun are both measured charted and immeasurable.
