50 Years of Landward, Scotland's Farming and Countryside TV programme
Scotland Outdoors
BBC
4.7 • 756 Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Rachel Stewart meets Arlene Stuart, one of the presenters of Landward, Scotland's Farming and Countryside TV programme which celebrates five decades on air
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| 0:13.5 | But who are the family behind one of the world's tech giants? |
| 0:17.2 | They often say, look, we built the nation. |
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| 0:34.5 | This Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland. |
| 0:43.7 | A question. |
| 0:45.7 | Do you remember this? |
| 0:53.8 | Well, that's the original theme tune for Landward, BBC Scotland's Rural and Countryside Affairs programme. |
| 1:01.3 | Now, it's celebrating a very special birthday. |
| 1:05.0 | Believe it or not, the TV show has now been on air for 50 years. |
| 1:14.9 | It might be a slight exaggeration to say that the programme has featured every square inch of Scotland in that time, but the team has certainly covered |
| 1:21.4 | a vast array of stories from, well, all over the country and beyond. Recently, I caught up with one of the presenters, Arlene Stewart, |
| 1:30.7 | who told me how she felt when she was invited to join Landward. |
| 1:36.1 | It was interesting when I got the call from the series editor at the time, Simon Cousins, |
| 1:41.4 | because I'd made a pledge to myself that I wouldn't work in television |
| 1:44.8 | again because I always felt the focus was very much, especially as a woman, that the focus was |
| 1:50.1 | on how you looked, what clothes you were wearing, how your hair was. And I'm not that kind of girl |
| 1:56.8 | and I found it really stressful. So I decided, no, I'm not doing any more television. And then I got this call from Simon and he said, would you like to do Landward? And I thought, oh no, no, it's television. Oh no, no, no. I'm a radio person now. You can turn up wearing whatever you like. It's fine. But he convinced me to do four features on renewable energy and I thought, well that would be |
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