Hello, political listeners. I'm Mark Stephen, presenter of the Scotland Outdoors podcast. Now, I know this is completely different to politics, but if you love nature and the outdoors, then we have some fascinating stuff for you. We've been doing this for a couple of years now, and we've got everything from walking the West Highland way to the eerie and rather beautiful sound of seals singing under Arctic ice.

And we get to talk to some lovely, lovely people.

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Hi, you're listening to Podlitical, BBC Scotland's podcast that gives you an inside look at the

biggest stories coming out of Hollywood and Westminster. It's 23 minutes past two on Thursday the 12th of November.

I'm Lucy White, a journalist based in the Glasgow Newsroom.

And today I'm joined by...

Nick Hurdley at Westminster.

Ross Deep Sundew at Westminster.

And Phil Sim at the Scottish Parliament.

And at Lucy, are you back from your holidays now?

Yeah, I wish

I wish they were holidays I was in isolation for two weeks I was doing my bits it was like being in

some kind of CBBs lined jail with my toddler for 14 days but I'm out of it now and I was listening

was quite crucial there yeah and I was listening to the podcasts when I was away from work. So yes, test and

protect caught me in its net, but I guess that's the way it's supposed to work.

Gotta do your bit. Yeah. Someone who can tell us more about that is BBC Scotland's health

correspondent Lisa Summers who is also joining us this week.

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