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Scotland Outdoors

Corbetts, Snowdrops and a Talkative Raven

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7756 Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2026

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Mark meets Christopher Valentine-Allan who is growing mushrooms for the restaurant market in a repurposed nuclear bunker in Edinburgh.

Rachel learns the art of grass whistling with listener Mike Hendry and his sons, 7 year old Innes and 10 year old George.

Mark and Rachel are joined by BBC China Correspondent Laura Bicker who has just returned from a trip sailing to Antarctica on the Bark Europa tall ship.

Rab Anderson has recently released a fully revised and definitive edition of the Scottish Mountaineering Club’s original guidebook that describes the best walking routes on Scotland’s 222 Corbetts. Mark catches up with Rab near Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh to discuss The Corbetts.

The Brechin Buccaneers have won Cricketer magazine’s UK’s Greenest Cricket Ground competition. Rachel chats to Tanya Aldred from the Cricketer and Grant Hutchison from the club.

In this week’s podcast excerpt, Mark is near Glen Prosen with Amy Buckley and her Raven called Fable who has a large repertoire of vocalisations.

Helen Needham chats to Sarah Morbey an organic farmer in Aberdeenshire who, after growing wheat successfully on her farm, would like to establish a local grain economy for people in her area.

Last year, residents in Comrie in Perthshire got together to save thousands of snowdrops which they feared were about to be destroyed by new flood defence work in the area. Now, they plan to make Comrie the first snowdrop village. Rachel meets Andrew Ryalls who has become a bit of a master planter.

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0:00.0

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0:07.2

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0:15.4

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0:16.4

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0:21.2

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0:24.5

Then in question time, you set the agenda and ask whatever's on your mind.

0:28.6

Would you rather be locked in an empty shopping centre with a thousand snakes or just one gorilla?

0:33.6

Within reason.

0:34.2

The Martin Lewis podcast, listen on BBC Sounds.

0:39.5

This Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.

0:48.5

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

0:51.5

Each week, hail rain or shine, we lovingly craft two Scotland

0:56.5

outdoors podcasts, one of which is actually created from the live program we do for BBC Radio

1:01.7

Scotland, which is called Out of Doors. And this week, the best mystery sound we've heard

1:06.7

in a very long time. I was driving through

1:10.9

Dumfries and Galloway yesterday

1:12.7

and lovely sunny day, beautiful.

1:17.4

And it's, the land itself

1:19.1

is sort of pillowed. There's lots

1:20.5

hummocks and shapes and things like that

1:22.3

and little hollows and dells and things

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