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Scotland Outdoors

Royal Northern Spring Show

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7709 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Back in snowy March, Mark and Euan visited the Spring show at the Thainstone Centre

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:09.3

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0:32.8

Listen first on BBC Salons. Hello and welcome to the Scotland Outdoors podcast.

0:38.5

Thanks for downloading.

0:39.8

I'm Helen Needham.

0:41.0

Well, as we prepare this week to head to one of the highlights of the Scottish

0:44.8

agricultural calendar, the Royal Highland Show,

0:47.5

we thought it might be a good idea to revisit Mark and Ewan's trip

0:50.7

to one of the first major gatherings in the farming year,

0:53.6

the Royal Northern

0:54.5

Spring Show.

0:56.4

This was part of a programme that was broadcast back in March when snow was thick on the ground,

1:01.5

and I joined Mark in the BBC Car Park to present the programme.

1:05.5

The first person that Mark and Ewan spoke to at Thaenstyn, that chilly snowy day, was Robbie

1:10.4

Newlands, President of the Royal Northern Agricultural Society.

1:14.6

We haven't had a snowy spring show for a year or two, but we've certainly had worse than this in the past,

1:20.7

but we've been quite lucky for the last few years. So snowy or seen than we would have wanted to see,

1:26.8

but there is a bit of blue sky above us at the moment,

1:29.6

so hopefully it gets better.

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