Your free, weekly, pocket guide to the Scottish outdoors. A flavour of the countryside in 15 minutes! From BBC Radio Scotland
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2024-04-20 | American Mink are an invasive non-native species which have become widespread in parts of Scotland after their release from fur farms. Rachel meets Karen Muller from the Scottish Invasive Species Initiative on the River Spey to hear why it’s important ... |
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2024-04-17 |
Walking the Old Lumphanan Road with the Late Stanley Robertson Stanley Robertson was from the Travelling People and in the 1980's he published a book called 'Exodus to Alford' featuring stories associated with a particular road his people used to take each Summer when he was a boy. Former BBC Producer Doreen Wood... |
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2024-04-13 |
Plants with Purpose, Pitlochry Paths and a Biomaterial Dress Linda is in Pitlochry where a group of volunteers meet once a fortnight to help maintain the area’s much loved and well used path network. She hears why the group were founded and about the different kinds of work they carry out.Mark is in Dunbar Harbo... |
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2024-04-06 | In this week’s Scotland Outdoors podcast, Mark chats with Landward’s Cammy Wilson about his sheep-farming career. We hear an excerpt where Cammy is telling Mark the story of Fiona, the 'world’s loneliest sheep'.Killiechassie Burial Ground near Aberfeld... |
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2024-04-03 | Mark Stephen visits Youtuber and TV presenter Cammy Wilson on his farm in Ayrshire |
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2024-03-30 | Mark Stephen and Rachel Stewart with stories from the great outdoors |
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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 ra... |
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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 ... |
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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 |
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2024-03-16 | Mark Stephen and Rachel Stewart with stories from the great outdoors |
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