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Hello and thank you very much for downloading the Scotland Outdoors podcast.

I'm Mark Stephen.

He's you and Macalraith.

And this week, it's not a commemorative issue.

But what we're going to try and do in this podcast is celebrate the life and work of Scotland's national poet Robert Burns.

Yeah, we've been down to D'Enfries where he worked,

we've been to the farm where he worked at Ellesland.

Finally, there's lots of different aspects about Burns

and we're going to finish up the programme with a haggis from Dumfries.

It's fair to say that both of us are really serious Burns enthusiasts.

We perform a lot of Burns suppers and things like they were very keen in it.

And yet there were things that I visited, things I saw, things I learned that I just didn't know before.

I think that's a fascination with Burns and that's why people do get into it big time.

There's lots of levels that he was speaking at, there's lots of poems that you come across.

It's a fascinating story and a lot

of his thoughts are really modern, a lot of his thoughts are slightly archaic. But it is a fascinating thing.

And if you having a burn supper, no matter where you are in the world over the next week you will,

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