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Scotland Outdoors

Kilted Yoga, Trains and Swarming Bees

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7709 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2023

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Mark Stephen and Rachel Stewart with stories from the great Scottish outdoors.

Transcript

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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.

0:22.8

This Scotland Outdoors podcast with Mark Stephen and Rachel Stewart from BBC Radio Scotland.

0:33.1

Thanks very much for listening to this.

0:35.3

As you probably know, we build the Scotland Outdoors podcast from the live programme we do for BBC Radio Scotland, which is called Out of Doors.

0:41.8

This week, it may be a very elusive species, but I was lucky enough to see a nightjar up in the north-east of Scotland.

0:52.8

Hello, and a very good morning to you.

0:55.6

Just across the other side of the fence here in the car park in Beach Grove, Aberdeen.

0:59.0

There's a very nice cherry tree, just a gine, a wild one.

1:01.9

But I was down in Glasgow last week and I was up this avenue.

1:04.7

I can't remember where it was.

1:06.5

But they had the pink ones.

1:08.4

Now, I know they're not actually local.

1:11.0

I know they're not actually natural or, you know,

1:13.0

but whatever, but the drifts of the pink blossom on the ground

1:17.2

were just beautiful.

1:18.8

Really lovely to see.

1:19.8

Anyway, I'm Mark Stephen.

1:21.0

She's Rachel Stewart, sitting the other side of the fire.

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