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Scotland Outdoors

Living in a Housing Cooperative with Owen Shiers

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7709 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Rural Wales and rural Scotland face many of the same issues: a lack of affordable housing, limited opportunities for young people and the prospect of rewilding. In this podcast, Helen visits Welsh musician Owen Shiers who lives in a housing cooperative up a long steep track in West Wales. They discuss culture, trees, housing, farming and the nuances surrounding rewilding, and discover that there are many similarities between this area and Scotland.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:09.3

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0:17.6

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0:22.0

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0:26.3

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0:27.4

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0:29.9

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0:32.8

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0:35.6

This Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.

0:45.2

We're very lucky here because we have a real diversity of landscapes.

0:49.9

There's moorland, there's hillscapes, there's woodlands, there's meadows, there's bogs, there's woods, there's all sorts.

0:59.5

The place described is not actually in Scotland. It's in Keradigian, which is in West Wales, where I met musician Owen Shears recently.

1:09.1

Owen lives in a housing cooperative up the end of a long track,

1:13.3

up a steep valley, and it's beautiful rolling countryside. I was working with Owen on another

1:19.3

project and I'll tell you about that later. The more time I spent with him, the more I realised

1:24.9

how so many of the issues facing the communities in this area are similar to those in rural Scotland.

1:31.3

For example, a lack of affordable housing, high levels of second homes and the prospects of rewilding and all the nuances surrounding that.

1:40.3

I'm Helen Needham and in this edition of Scotland outdoors I take a wonder up a very

1:45.6

steep Welsh hillside with Owen Shears and learn about what it's like living in a housing cooperative

1:51.4

and how this patch of land has been transformed from an overgrazed sheep farm into a thriving

1:57.6

woodland over the space of 30 years.

2:03.3

Let's begin with some context, though.

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