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Scotland Outdoors

BBC Radio Scotland

A topical guide to life in the Scottish outdoors.

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20:16

Ayrshire Farmer Cammy Wilson shares his Passion for...

Scotland Outdoors ·

2024/04/03

Mark Stephen visits Youtuber and TV presenter Cammy Wilson on his farm in Ayrshire

83:59

Kelpies, Cold Water Dooking and Seaweed Pressing

Scotland Outdoors ·

2024/03/30

Mark Stephen and Rachel Stewart with stories from the great outdoors

27:05

Mountain Tales - The Cuillins of Skye

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2024/03/27

Mark revisits a series of programmes he made in the early 2000s called Mountain Tales. The programmes feature Scotland's iconic hills and mountains and what it means to those who live and work in the area nearby. Mark finds out what the mountain range, the Cuillins of Skye mean to a mountain guide, climber, musician, geologist and sailor

82:15

Water Voles, Point to Point and Alloway's Giant Mural

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2024/03/23

Rachel is in East Lothian where local residents are campaigning for better access across the busy A1 road. For a considerable stretch there’s no official pedestrian crossing linking the villages close to Dunbar with the coast. And as Rachel sees, it’s a very busy road to try and cross as a cyclist or pedestrian.Mark visits Dean Castle in Kilmarnock and finds out about its fascinating history including being completely destroyed by fire before an impressive restoration in 2018.The Covid lockdown led

26:37

Music for Our Planet with Laura-Beth Salter and Ali...

Scotland Outdoors ·

2024/03/20

Helen Needham wanders around Glasgow Green with Laura-Beth Salter and Ali Hutton who have created a new album called 'From the Ground' as a response to climate change

83:58

Life on Mars, Boat Building and Rats

Scotland Outdoors ·

2024/03/16

Mark Stephen and Rachel Stewart with stories from the great outdoors

31:16

A new era at Mountaineering Scotland

Scotland Outdoors ·

2024/03/13

Rachel Stewart speaks to Anne Butler, the new President of Mountaineering Scotland and newly appointed Chair Jo Dytch. The pair are the first women to hold the roles. During a walk up Glen Tilt near Blair Atholl, Rachel asks them about their aspirations in their new jobs and whether they think more females are taking to the hills.

81:41

Blood Sucking Leeches, Skittish Whales and Horse...

Scotland Outdoors ·

2024/03/09

In this week’s Scotland Outdoors podcast, Mark visits what is believed to be the UK’s largest urban farm. Lauriston Agroecology farm is on a hundred-acre site near Edinburgh Airport and is a hive of activity. Mark hears how the site has been developed so far.The Highland Wildlife Park near Kingussie is well known for its polar bears, wildcats and over recent weeks, its monkeys. But as Rachel found out, it’s also home to an important conservation breeding programme for leeches. Not perhaps the most

25:51

Creating Abundance at Lauriston Agroecology Farm in...

Scotland Outdoors ·

2024/03/06

Mark Stephen gets a tour of the UK's biggest urban farm from Lisa Houston

83:42

Shetland Sparrowhawks, Feral Pigs and an Art Deco...

Scotland Outdoors ·

2024/03/02

Rachel heads to Fort Augustus for a chat with Cieran Watson from Forestry Land Scotland and Morag Milne from NatureScot about how they can manage the growing number of feral pigs living wild in the Scottish countryside.Mark meets Niall MacLeod who is part of the Loch Awe National Park committee to chat about their bid for Loch Awe to be a contender for Scotland’s next National Park.Over the winter, the Cairngorm Reindeers have been busy shedding their antlers. Rachel chats to one of the herders, Hen

23:59

Rising from the Ashes - Transforming Dead Wood from...

Scotland Outdoors ·

2024/02/28

Mark Stephen speaks with furniture makers who are turning wood that has been affected by the ash dieback fungal disease into furniture and other objects.

83:55

Time for Tatties, Wooden Ships and the Art of...

Scotland Outdoors ·

2024/02/24

Mark Stephen and Rachel Stewart with stories from the great outdoors

26:26

Mountain Tales - Schiehallion

Scotland Outdoors ·

2024/02/21

Mark Stephen visits Schiehallion in Perthshire. Known as the hill of the wee folk, Mark meets those who live nearby and finds out what the iconic hill means to them

82:59

Salmon, Osprey and a Self Build Plane

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2024/02/17

Mark heads to Turriff to attend the 2024 opening of the River Deveron. He hears from Richie Miller of the Deveron District Salmon Fishery Board as well as John Beattie, who officially opens the salmon season.Rachel visits warden Jim Hughes who is celebrating 25 years in post at the Balgavies Loch nature reserve in Angus, to chat about the most memorable moment of his career.It has been 6 years since the community buy-out of the Isle of Ulva in the Inner Hebrides. In the first episode of her podcast,

24:25

Galloway Scots Scriever

Scotland Outdoors ·

2024/02/14

Rachel Stewart meets Susi Briggs, the newly appointed Scots Scriever. The National Library of Scotland revealed that Susi would be the Galloway Scots Scriever in November 2023. Susi is a poet, author, storyteller, musician and podcaster with a passion for the Scots language. In her new role, she will be tasked with creating original written work in Scots. Rachel visited her in Gatehouse of Fleet to find out how her local landscape and love of nature has inspired her creative work over the years

83:22

Flamingos, Fedges and Newfoundland Rescue Dogs

Scotland Outdoors ·

2024/02/10

If you added up all the land currently forming playgrounds and playing fields around Scotland’s schools, it would be roughly the same size as Dundee. Most of that is tarmac or grass cut short for sports but as Helen Needham discovered when she visited Levenmouth High School in Buckhaven in Fife, it’s possible for schools to use some of their land in a different way to improve biodiversity and benefit learning and wellbeing.Two rare needlework samplers thought to have been embroidered by Robert

84:54

Imbolc, Natural Burial and Swimming in Cellardyke

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2024/02/03

Mark visits Aviemore Bikes to hear about a scheme encouraging locals to take up the use of an e-bike free of charge. He hears who has been using them and why.This week’s Scotland’s Outdoors podcast features cellist Jessica Kerr telling Helen Needham about her project ‘Stories of People and Trees’. She’s been gathering stories relating to trees and has commissioned some new music inspired by them. We hear an excerpt where they admire the trees in Maxwell Park in Glasgow.Back in lockdown in 2020, a

23:55

Stories and Music About People and Trees with Cellist...

Scotland Outdoors ·

2024/01/31

Helen Needham hears about some special trees from musician Jessica Kerr

83:43

Wildcats, Caves and a Honey Sommelier

Scotland Outdoors ·

2024/01/27

Rachel ventures into the sea caves at East Wemyss in Fife to hear about how coastal erosion is threatening the Pictish carvings on their walls.Last summer, the Saving Wildcats project released 19 cats in the Cairngorms as part of efforts to prevent the species becoming extinct. Mark visits the Highland Wildlife Park where the next kittens that will be released have been bred, to hear about how the project is going.We’ve all heard of wine tasting but have you ever thought of giving honey tasting a

30:11

Honey tasting in Edinburgh

Scotland Outdoors ·

2024/01/24

Rachel meets Dr Gino Jabbar from Simply Honey in Edinburgh. He is a honey producer and sommelier and runs classes introducing people to the art of honey tasting. He believes that honey is a "taste of the landscape" and there are marked differences in the taste of the product depending on the season and location of the bees. He invites Rachel to sample different products and explains how different plants and trees influence the taste.

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