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Scotland Outdoors

A Herring Queen, Art on a Bus and a Very Small Ferry

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7709 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2025

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Since 1978 the Travelling Gallery has been bringing exhibitions to communities throughout Scotland by putting art inside a bus. Mark steps on board with curator Louise Briggs in Callendar Park, Falkirk, to explore the latest exhibition, Seedlings: Diasporic Imaginaries.

Phil Sime speaks to blind farmer Mike Duxbury about Scotland’s first inclusive farm, a place where people with disabilities can gain the confidence, skills, and opportunities to pursue a career in agriculture.

BBC’s Farmwatch is back to celebrate farming communities across the UK, with 24 hours of continuous broadcasting on BBC local stations on Thursday the 7th of August. Rachel and Mark are joined by producer Marie Lennon and Landward presenter and sheep farmer Cammy Wilson to chat farming life and Farmwatch stories.

Rachel joins the annual Eyemouth Herring Queen celebration to meet this year’s newly crowned queen and to find out why the annual tradition is so important to the local community.

New Arc Wildlife Rescue in Aberdeenshire is the largest rescue centre in the North East of Scotland. This summer, the team have seen their busiest months ever, partly due to the hot weather. Mark meets Paul Reynolds to find out how the centre is managing the increased numbers of fledgling rescues.

Linda Sinclair catches up with Tracey Howe in Aberdeenshire as she nears the end of her 5,000 mile walk around the British coastline in memory of her wife Angela.

Mark hops aboard one of Scotland’s smallest ferries and talks to skipper Dougie Robertson about the appeal of the Cromarty to Nigg crossing, a journey that takes only 10 minutes.

Excisemen disappeared from distilleries in the 1980s, but Fettercairn Distillery in Angus still has a Customs and Excise office tucked inside one of the original warehouses. Rachel meets Claire Sabison and Kylie Anderson to have a look and to discover where the distillery gets its casks from.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.

0:10.3

Hello and thank you very much for choosing to listen to this.

0:13.1

We do a couple of Scotland Outdoors podcasts every week,

0:16.1

one of which is actually built from the live programme we do for BBC Radio Scotland.

0:20.0

And this week an utterly unguessable mystery sound.

0:27.2

I've mentioned this before, but there's a big church spire just off to the left there on Midstock Road.

0:33.9

And it's made in the local grey granite which looks silver in the rain

0:38.3

but this morning

0:39.7

there was just enough of a gap of the cloud

0:42.0

that the sun came up and it hit that spire

0:44.3

and it was apricot coloured

0:45.6

really beautiful and just the top of that tree across there too

0:48.7

anyway good morning I'm Mark Stephen

0:50.6

sitting the other side of the fire

0:52.3

quite happy quite content this morning

0:54.0

Rachel Stewart well it's hard to tell sometimes, Rachel Stewart.

0:57.0

Good morning. I had a similar experience when I was driving in because it's actually quite grey and dull, isn't it, this morning.

1:03.0

But occasionally you just get the odd sliver of peach, and there was a nice moment where I was at the top of a hill,

1:09.0

and you could see one of those slivers and a line of wind turbines which were really dark in the light. It was quite pretty.

1:16.6

Yeah, it is.

1:17.6

One of the things that crossed my mind yesterday I was up the head of the hill.

1:20.6

Because the barley is turning at the moment and you know they haven't started harvesting yet, but you know the barley is turning and it's just that sense of waiting

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