Did you know that you can listen to many of your favourite podcasts first on BBC Sounds?

Like Desert Island Discs, where you can hear castaways like Cher, Gareth Southgate and Nick Cave,

and enjoy longer versions of the music they've picked.

Good things come to those who don't wait.

Listen to your favourite podcasts first on BBC Sounds.

Now about halfway through my BBC career, I moved up to BBC Aberdeen and it was a really

old-fashioned building, a lovely granite building with sort of pillars on the front of it and things.

And it was a bit of a rabbit warren.

As you came in the front door, if you turned right, there was an office, dark wooden panelling, proper desk, a really posh fireplace, as I remember. And sitting there was the boss man, Arthur Anderson. Arthur had a fascinating career in broadcasting. He started off as a wee farming loon. He's worked his way up. He's been literally all around the world.

And he just produced a book chronicling all this called Wheels Rolling at 8.

And we'll explain that shortly.

But take me right back to the beginning, you know, as a child.

Well, I was born at a wonderful place called the May Farm, which is in the Mahars of Wigtonshire,

and it was truly a magical place. My mother and father were tenant farmers of the May Farm.

It was a large farm in terms of acres, a thousand acres, but not like a thousand acres you might

find on the east coast here. It was a lot of it was kind of poor and grudging land,

a low-lying wet moor, useful for probably summering the sheep and nothing else.

The main agricultural bit was about 150 in-by acres,

and that held a small flock of sheep and 29 dairy cows. We had two buyers, one for 13

cows, one for 17, although there was never 17 in the big buyer because the top stall was always

reserved for the crossing bull. But it was a magical place to grow up as a boy. My mother and father worked very hard, of course, because you've got to, if you've only

got 29 dairy cows to try and earn a living from.

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