, Mark and Euan indulge their love of steam trains, get close up with some reindeer and the bee that's become an internet hit

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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The reindeer of the Cairngorms, steam trains and the bee that's an internet sensation

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0:00.0	Did you know that you can listen to many of your favorite 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. Good things come to those who don't wait.
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0:24.2	Hello and thank you for downloading the Scotland Outdoors podcast. I'm Mark Stephen.
0:28.9	Here's you and McAweff. Yeah, I've had a brilliant week. I've been speaking to a lady who
0:32.4	absolutely inspired me with a tale of it a bee. It is a lovely story actually. I know it went worldwide and it was hugely influential.
0:41.3	What I like about it is it's a relationship between a very big thing and a very small thing
0:45.3	and arguably it has changed the way we think about bees.
0:49.3	It's a bit like this program. A big thing and a small thing.
0:51.3	Something like that.
0:53.3	Coming up we've got a timely reminder of how to keep safe in the mountains
0:55.7	at that story of the bee.
0:57.8	And there's this lovely chap who, frankly,
1:01.0	see if you were having a stressful day.
1:02.7	This is the fella to spend time with.
1:05.4	What kind of things do they say to you when you say,
1:07.0	how do you feel now?
1:08.6	Well, some of them actually are still asleep.
1:13.5	So I have to waking them back up because they're not used to this sort of sudden freedom of just stillness.
1:18.4	And some are just zoned out in a positive way.
1:22.4	I think we all need more of that, to be honest.
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