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2025-02-22

  A Soutar's Shop, Jigsaws and Gorillas

Winchburgh in West Lothian is expanding rapidly, with several new housing developments underway. At the heart of these new developments is the 85 acre Authcaldie Park, where Mark visits a group of volunteers who are building a new centre piece for the ...
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2025-02-19

  The Glasgow Seed Library with Rowan Lear

Helen Needham meets seed librarian Rowan Lear
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2025-02-15

  Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Snowdrops and a Beaver MOT

Auchnerran Farm is run by the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust as a demonstration farm to test and trial conservation and land management strategies. Mark visits the farm to hear about their projects and how they manage these alongside a profitable...
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2025-02-12

  Sunset Song - Exploring The Mearns - Part 2

The 7th February 2025 marks 90 years since the death of Scottish writer Lewis Grassic Gibbon, author of Sunset Song. In 2016, it was voted Scotland's favourite novel. In this archive programme, Mark Stephen explores the area it was set in, the Mearns.
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2025-02-08

  Water of Leith Otters, Salmon Fishing on the River Tweed and a Famous North East Cow

The National Farmers Union of Scotland Conference has been underway this week, and Kevin Keane is there, joined by Professor Colin Campbell from the James Hutton Institute, to hear his advice on how farms can become more resilient in the face of climat...
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2025-02-05

  Sunset Song - Exploring the Mearns - Part 1

The 7th February 2025 marks 90 years since the death of Scottish writer Lewis Grassic Gibbon, author of Sunset Song. In 2016, it was voted Scotland's favourite novel. In this archive programme, Mark and Euan explore the area it was set in, the Mearns.
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2025-02-01

  The Festival of Imbolc, World Wetlands Day and the Big Farmland Bird Count

Parts of the country are still recovering after last week’s Storm Eowyn including Jupiter Artland. The 100-acre sculpture garden on the outskirts of Edinburgh suffered quite a bit of storm damage as Mark saw when he visited earlier this week.Rachel mee...
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2025-01-25

  Burns on Birds, Golden Eye and How to Make Haggis

We celebrate Burns Day on Out of Doors on the 265th anniversary of his birth. Mark chats to Professor Fiona Stafford from University of Oxford who writes about Burns ‘the bard of nature’. They chat about his understanding of ecology and how that comes ...
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2025-01-22

  Wandering Morven - A Wander up Morven with Artist and Adventurer Morven Stewart

Helen Needham walks up Morven in Aberdeenshire with Morven Stewart
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2025-01-18

  Endurance Racing, the Ness Islands of Inverness and a Mini Kilted King

Rachel is in Lochaber where one of the biggest nature restoration projects in the country is underway. The Nevis Nature Network Project covers 22 thousand acres which includes fragments of Scottish rainforest and rare montane scrub. She met project man...
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