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🗓️ 7 May 2025
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Mark Stephen meets head of soil forensics at the James Hutton Institute, Professor Lorna Dawson. Mark meets Lorna at the Institute's research farm, Glensaugh in Aberdeenshire to find out what exactly her job entails
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0:00.0 | Hello, Russell Kane here. |
0:03.1 | I'm back for another season of character assassinating the nice guy |
0:06.4 | and binging up the baddies in evil genius. |
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0:16.9 | are more evil or more genius. |
0:19.0 | I just think every celebrity, said with respect, Russell, is out of their minds. |
0:26.6 | Evil genius with Russell Kane. Listen first on BBC Sounds. |
0:31.9 | This Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland. |
0:44.8 | Hello and thank you very much for choosing to listen to this. |
0:45.9 | I'm Mark Stephen. |
0:50.6 | Unless you're involved in agriculture or horticulture, |
0:54.3 | you probably don't spend a lot of time thinking about soil. |
0:57.1 | That's perhaps a mistake. |
1:00.1 | Soil is the earth's skin. |
1:06.8 | It's a living, breathing, dynamic mixture of organic matter, gases, minerals, liquids, |
1:09.9 | and countless numbers of living organisms. |
1:13.8 | It's not just a growth medium. Soil is quite literally crucial to our survival, and yet most of us don't pay it any attention at all. Professor Lorna Dawson |
1:21.8 | does. Lorna is head of soil forensics at the James Hutton Institute here in Scotland. |
1:27.8 | She's an expert witness and a registered expert with a national crime agency. |
1:32.3 | But when we met, we started off talking about something much closer to our own upbringing. |
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