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Scotland Outdoors

A Life with Birds Living on the Bass Rock and The Galapagos with June Nelson

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7709 Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Mark Stephen meets June Nelson who shares memories of travels with her late husband Bryan

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0:00.0

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0:09.3

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0:22.0

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0:26.3

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0:27.4

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0:29.9

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0:32.8

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0:36.2

The Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.

0:45.9

Hello and thanks very much for choosing to listen to this.

0:48.5

I'm Mark Stephen.

0:50.3

I suppose all of us at some stage or another have dreamt of living on a desert island as a romance to it and a peel.

0:57.9

Well June Nelson and a late husband Brian back in the 1960s actually did it. They did it twice. Once here in Scotland on an island of the 4th and the second time in an area which sounds like a tropical paradise, a veritable garden of Eden.

1:13.2

Of the two, the Scottish island was probably the far easier gig, because life on the Galapagos was extremely difficult.

1:21.8

They've written about it in a book called Galapagos.

1:25.3

It's been a long time since I read anything that captured my imagination quite so much.

1:30.1

June nowadays lives down in Cacuboury

1:32.0

in Dufreasing Galloway, so I went down to visit her

1:34.2

and began by asking her

1:36.5

just to describe Brian to me.

1:38.7

He did so many things.

1:40.3

He was loved by everybody.

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