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Scotland Outdoors

Mark and Helen visit Scotland's premier agricultural event of the year - The Royal Highland Show at Ingliston

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7709 Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2018

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Mark and Helen are at the Royal Highland Show - Scotland's premier agricultural event

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0:37.2

You're listening to the Scotland Outdoors podcast.

0:39.6

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0:41.0

I'm Mark Stephen.

0:42.0

With me this week is Helen Needham.

0:44.3

And we are experiencing the sights, sounds and indeed smells

0:48.2

of Scotland's premier agricultural event.

0:51.5

Well, we got here sort of in the last hour and there's a lot of sweeping going on at the moment.

0:56.0

A lot of sweeping, a lot of hoovering. Rather nicely when I came in and passed the main arena, because I had part up at the far end there, I came in past the main arena and there was folk grazing their ponies in the main arena. Yeah, I saw that, some highlands and some Clydesdales. It's a bit like somebody sort of feeding their sheep and Lord's cricket grounds, you know.

1:13.6

Yeah, why not?

1:15.6

Well, I suppose the animals may not have seen any grass for a few days.

1:18.6

Well, that's true. I mean, you've used of cattle background too.

1:21.6

I took a wonder through the cattle lines first thing this morning too, and there was two folk,

1:25.6

literally just taking a couple of shirley heifers they seem to be just going out for a walk yeah and simple

1:30.0

well I suppose they do they've been cooped up in there for days now because a lot of

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