A Trip Doon the Watter on the Waverley

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Mark Stephen climbs aboard the world's last seagoing paddle steamer, The Waverley

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:07.2	Things just swirling around my head.
0:09.6	Am I really the product of this?
0:12.1	Astonishing secrets uncovered by at-home DNA tests.
0:17.0	Little did I know what more was to come.
0:19.5	I'm Jenny Clemen, and in the new series of The Gift,
0:23.6	we'll hear more stories emerging out of the ever-expanding global DNA database.
0:28.8	They did know that I was different.
0:31.7	You had kids together.
0:33.0	Yeah.
0:33.5	Then you met.
0:34.3	Then we met.
0:35.2	The Gift.
0:36.1	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:38.3	This Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.
0:44.3	I'll just give you a quick description.
0:55.0	Her two masts and two funnels are both raked.
0:58.0	They slants slightly backwards, so even at rest, she looks like she's moving.
1:03.0	She's very smartly painted, black at the water line, then white, up to the gunwales.
1:07.0	Her funnels are red, white and black.
1:10.0	Everything that's wooden is varnished and everything metal is polished.
1:14.6	She is beautiful and quite unique.
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