For mental health awareness week, Mark and Euan explore the benefits of outdoor life on our mental health

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2021

⏱️ 83 minutes

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How the power of the great outdoors can boost our mental health

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0:00.0	Did you know that you can listen to many of your favourite podcasts first on BBC Sounds?
0:06.6	Like Desert Island Discs, where you can hear castaways like Cher, Gareth Southgate and Nick Cave,
0:12.7	and enjoy longer versions of the music they've picked.
0:15.7	Good things come to those who don't wait.
0:18.7	Listen to your favourite podcasts first on BBC Sounds.
0:24.1	The Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.
0:33.5	Hello and thanks very much for choosing to listen to this.
0:36.4	I'm Mark Stephen.
0:38.0	The Scotland Outdoors podcast is built from a live program we do for BBC Radio Scotland
0:42.4	called Out of Doors.
0:44.2	And this week, because it's Mental Health Awareness Week,
0:47.4	we kind of majored on that.
0:51.3	Okay, here's the situation, right?
0:54.0	Across their cherry tree white blossom. there, cherry tree, white blossom.
0:56.0	Across there cherry tree white blossom.
0:58.0	Down there, cherry tree, pink blossom.
1:00.0	Birds are singing.
1:01.0	There is literally a grey squirrel hopping across the path.
1:03.0	So you'd think, this is spring, stroke, summer.
1:06.0	No, I've got the fire on, and I need the fire on.
1:08.0	It is flipping freezing this morning.
1:10.0	I'm Mark Stephen coming to live from the BBC Aberdeen Carpark. or give Lewis a call. He's on 08, 085, 925O.
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