A North East Lido, Badger Behaviour and a Coral Beach

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Science, Society & Culture

4.7 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Lambhill, in the North of Glasgow, is home to a thriving community hub, built out of an old stable block on the edge of the Forth and Clyde canal. Mark went along to visit their community garden, and find out more about what goes on there.

Rachel is on the banks of Loch Lomond to find out about the issues of litter along the busy stretch of the A82, and what the local people have been doing to tackle it.

Auchindoun Castle in Moray has recently reopened after some careful masonry repairs. Mark meets with Historic Environment Scotland’s District Architect for the North region, Mike Pendery, to find out more about what it takes to look after these remote ruins.

Tarlair Outdoor Swimming Pool in the North East has been undergoing restoration for a number of years, but work has now been completed on the art deco pavilion. Mark met up with Pat Wain from the Friends of Tarlair community group to see the newly finished space, and find out more about the next stage of the restoration.

A new multipurpose football stadium is in the planning stages in Dundee, but local people are concerned about the loss of old, established trees, and the impact this could have on the area’s wildlife. Rachel met up with Violet Fraser, one of the campaigners against this development.

Mountain rescue veteran, David ‘Heavy’ Whalley, sadly passed away recently. He featured on the programme a number of times, and we pay tribute with a clip originally from 2015, where he joined Mark and Euan on a hike up Ben Wyvis.

Midlothian Snow Sports has long been a hub for people with disabilities, or learning difficulties to come together and learn to ski. However, there has been a decline in uptake over recent years, which Disability Snowsport UK are hoping to change. Rachel went along to see what it is all about.

Mark takes a wet and windy stroll along Coral Beach in Plockton, so called for its sand which is made up of calcified seaweed or maerl.

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0:00.0	This Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.
0:09.0	Hello and thank you very much for choosing to listen to this.
0:13.0	We do a couple of Scotland outdoor podcasts every week, one of them based on the live programme we do for BBC Radio Scotland, which is called Out of Doors.
0:21.3	And this week we're talking rubbish, quite literally.
0:27.1	Controversy rages in the BBC Aberdeen Carpart because our senior producer Helen Needham swears blind that she saw had the first swallow of the year last Monday.
0:37.7	None of us believe her, but never mind.
0:39.5	I'm Mark Stevens sitting across at the side of the fire, Rachel Stewart.
0:42.4	She said it was just there fleetingly sitting on a pole.
0:45.5	No, she said it was on a wire, cleaning under its wing.
0:48.6	You never know.
0:50.1	Apparently the clock's changed, don't they, tomorrow?
0:52.3	Oh, don't.
0:52.6	So it's British summertime.
1:30.9	Spring forward. Spring forward. Spring forward. Spring forward means you get an hour less in your bed. But I do like the long, the long light nights. Oh, even getting up this morning, I mean, I got out of bed this morning. Think about quarter past, half past four. Half past four. And there was light in the sky. Yeah, yeah, and it's absolutely lovely now. Oh, beautiful. It's fully bright, it's fantastic. It's fully bright. But pink sky this morning, really beautiful. We're overlooking the beach, gorgeous. Yeah, yeah. Get in touch then. Let us know what you're up to, whether you're embracing British summertime. But let us know, are you ready to embrace the long, the long summery nights?
1:36.9	Get in touch with this email, us out of doors at BBC.co.uk, Texas 80295.
1:39.4	And we've got a new person answering the phones today.
1:42.0	A guy called Ewan, so go easy on him.
2:02.7	08085-925-O. Coming up in the programme, I went to visit a community garden which sits just in the banks of the 4th and Clay Cade Canal. And I used to cycle past it a lot and it was a wreck when I remember it. But what a job that made of it. It's fantastic. I've also been on the slopes, but I haven't been jetting off to Europe but anything like that. Don't you worry. But first here's the
2:04.6	mystery sound.
2:12.5	They call him flipper.
2:15.0	It's not by the way.
2:16.8	Thought that was coming
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