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Scotland Outdoors

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A topical guide to life in the Scottish outdoors.

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84:45

Winter in the Mountains, Willow Coffins and Puddles

Scotland Outdoors ·

2024/01/13

Mark Stephen and Rachel Stewart with stories from the great outdoors

29:00

A Green Pharmacy with Herbologist Catherine...

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2024/01/10

Helen Needham visits the Physic Garden at the RBGE with Catherine Conway-Payne

80:55

Squirrels, Crannogs and the Taj Mahal of Arbroath

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2024/01/06

Mark is in Hazlehead Park in Aberdeen hearing how the team from Saving Scotland’s Red Squirrels is working to remove the grey squirrel population from the city.In June 2021 fire destroyed the replica Iron Age Crannog on Loch Tay. In the years since, the Scottish Crannog Centre has moved location to the other side of the loch and the team has been working to create a new replica Iron Age village. Rachel went to see their progress and explore the new site.The Memorial Chapel in Arbroath’s Western

32:49

Charlie Allan - A Tribute to a North East Man O'...

Scotland Outdoors ·

2024/01/03

Helen Needham with archive recordings from Charlie Allan

30:50

Bothy Culture - A Celebration of 70 Years of the...

Scotland Outdoors ·

2023/12/27

Mark Stephen hears tales of bothying including some very special cookery

81:37

Bothies, Dark Skies at Braemar and a Festive Tractor...

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2023/12/23

Mark uncovers tales from the secret howff bothy in the Cairngorms. Mark and Rachel explore the dark skies in the hills above Braemar and Rachel finds out the lengths farmers go to to decorate their tractors for a festive run through the streets of Inverurie

16:50

Cinasium Soundscape

Scotland Outdoors ·

2023/12/20

The twin brothers behind the music project Kinbrae were commissioned to make a soundscape of an unusual building at Crail Airfield in Fife as part of the East Neuk Festival in 2023. The building was called a cinasium - a cross between a cinema and a gym. This was the social hub for the airfield when it was still active during World War Two. Andy and Mike Truscott used field recordings and created their own sounds, without using samples, to replicate the audio that would have been heard during the

80:26

Earth, Wind and Water

Scotland Outdoors ·

2023/12/16

Mark visits Alex Brewster at his farm near Pitlochry. Ten years ago, Alex changed his approach to farming to a more regenerative one, conserving and rehabilitating the soil. He shows Mark the impact that change has made to his land and explains how it all happened.Lake District climber Anna Taylor became the first woman to complete the 'classic rock' challenge all under her own steam. She tells Rachel about how she cycled between the routes on the challenge and more about her climbing career.The

26:59

Connecting With and Writing about Nature through...

Scotland Outdoors ·

2023/12/13

Helen Needham speaks with writer Louise Kenward about the anthology 'Moving Mountains'

84:20

New National Parks, Green Cumbernauld and Meikle or...

Scotland Outdoors ·

2023/12/09

Mark Stephen and Rachel Stewart with stories from the great outdoors

19:32

Cider Making in the North East of Scotland

Scotland Outdoors ·

2023/12/06

Mark Stephen meets Christian Stolte of the Wee Scottish Cider Company

80:38

Shining Guest Ants, Mushrooms and Coco Chanel

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2023/12/02

Rachel is on Deeside where a rare and elusive ant which hadn’t been spotted in the area for over 70 years has been rediscovered in large numbers. She hears from the man who found it.And Rachel also chats to Dr Jenni Stockan, an insect ecologist at the James Hutton Institute who confirmed the ant discovery. She explains the process of identifying insects.We hear an excerpt from this week’s Scotland Outdoors podcast which features author Peter MacQueen. Peter’s family have a hut in Argyll but to get

21:33

Living Off Grid in a Family Hut in Argyll with Peter...

Scotland Outdoors ·

2023/11/29

Mark Stephen visits the family hut of Peter and Graham MacQueen in Argyll

83:19

Trees, Permaculture and Hutting

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2023/11/25

Earlier this week Mark went along to Agriscot, a farm business event held at Ingliston just outside Edinburgh. He spoke to Bob Carruth from NFU Scotland about who attends and what the topics were up for debate.Green woodworking involves making things out of unseasoned or unprocessed wood using only hand tools. It’s a method which appears to be growing in popularity as Rachel found out when she met green woodworker Aaron Sterritt near Forres.Helen Needham visits James Reid of Tap O' Noth Farm to hear

25:53

Creating a Food Forest on the Side of a Hill in...

Scotland Outdoors ·

2023/11/22

Helen Needham visits James Reid of Tap O' Noth Farm to hear about his approach to farming

83:18

Paper Boats, Shakespeare in Scotland and The Huntly...

Scotland Outdoors ·

2023/11/18

Rachel tries her hand at angling with the Dee Damsels. The group was set up by Tara Spiers to support women who were keen to learn more about fly fishing.Mark returns to the Greenmyres Eco Bothy run by the Huntly Development Trust. He gets an update on the work they’ve done on the site so far including walking and cycling trails plus hears about their plans for the future.Stretching nearly 80 miles from Fort William to Inverness, the Great Glen Way is one of Scotland’s most popular walking routes

27:45

River Dee Damsels

Scotland Outdoors ·

2023/11/15

Rachel Stewart meets some of those trying to encourage more women to take up angling on the River Dee in Aberdeenshire.

82:49

A Munro Triathlon, a Year in a Kayak and a Wobbly...

Scotland Outdoors ·

2023/11/11

On this week’s Scotland Outdoors podcast Mark finds out about a project called Light is a Right – How to Winter Well. Glasgow University researchers have been looking into different things that might help us cope with the long, dark winter days. They explain to Mark what’s been involved in their research.Rachel is in Ayrshire meeting the Wednesday Weekday Volunteers who are always happy to roll their sleeves up and get to work at the Gailes Marsh Nature Reserve near Irvine.Wildlife photographer John

21:01

How to Winter Well

Scotland Outdoors ·

2023/11/08

Mark Stephen finds out how to winter well over the next few months. He meets a group of academics from Edinburgh and Glasgow Universities looking into the effects of Seasonal Affective Disorder and discovers what can be done to improve winter depression

85:01

Willow, Pigs and the Future of Farming

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2023/11/04

Mark visits Deeside Willow to hear all about how to grow this versatile plant and its many uses. He also tries his hand at some willow sculpting.The Future Forest Company has transformed a former sheep farm in Ayrshire with the help of some rather interesting pigs. Rachel went to visit the Brodoclea site to hear about the organisation’s aims and what role their Mangalica pigs have played.Dr Kat Jones is director of the charity Action to Protect Rural Scotland. For the last few months she’s been

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