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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.

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The Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.

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

I'm Mark Stephen.

I don't know whether

you know, but we actually build the Scotland Outdoors podcast out of a live program we do for BBC Radio

Scotland called Out of Doors. This week was fairly broad-ranging. We were looking at a really

innovative salmon trap. There was a heap of stuff about birds, a beautiful trip out to a fascinating place

called Moosa Brock and Shetland. And then, of course, you've got the mysterious earthhound.

And this is how it all panned out.

You're listening to Out of Doors on BBC Radio Scotland.

Our esteemed senior producer, Helen Needham, who's a right Pollyanna sometimes, says,

start off with a hooray, the rain's off, it's not. It's come back on again.

This is shaping up to be the worst May day since yesterday.

I'm Mark Stephen, coming to you damply from the BBC Aberdeen Carpark,

joining me this morning from his no doubt sunny rural Iddle in Bamsher, Mr. Ewan McElraith.

Good morning. Hooray. The rain is off, the sun is out. The ark has been put back in the garage.

It's fantastic. It's just been absolutely drink it for days and winds and now it's just lovely.

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