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🗓️ 17 February 2024
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Mark heads to Turriff to attend the 2024 opening of the River Deveron. He hears from Richie Miller of the Deveron District Salmon Fishery Board as well as John Beattie, who officially opens the salmon season.
Rachel visits warden Jim Hughes who is celebrating 25 years in post at the Balgavies Loch nature reserve in Angus, to chat about the most memorable moment of his career.
It has been 6 years since the community buy-out of the Isle of Ulva in the Inner Hebrides. In the first episode of her podcast, Now Where, May Robson visits the island to find out how the community is faring.
Returning to the River Deveron, Mark hears from Richie Miller and Andrew MacGarvie about a historical salmon catch made on the river 100 years ago by Clementina “Tiny” Morison.
Calum MacLean joins live to chat about the brand new series of the Adventure Show, which features Calum and Marie Meldrum as presenters. Mark and Rachel chat with Calum about the Adventure Show, the Strathpuffer and about plans for the show for the rest of the year. A clip from the show will also be featured.
Bill Richie is a retired embryologist who was involved in the cloning of Dolly the Sheep. Nowadays, Bill finds himself engaged in an entirely different pursuit – building his own plane. Mark visits Bill in Aberlour for a chat about his self-built plane.
Poet, storyteller and performer Susi Briggs has been named the Galloway Scots Scrivener. Rachel goes for a walk with Susi in Dumfries and Galloway around some of the places which have inspired her.
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0:00.0 | He tells her that she will be sent to France as a secret agent, and if she's caught, she's going to be shot. |
0:09.3 | I'm Helen Obalam Carter, and this is history's secret heroes, where I shine a light on extraordinary stories from World War II. |
0:17.6 | What they wanted was someone to get themselves arrested and sent to Auschwitz. |
0:22.0 | Tales of deception, an incredible acts of resistance and courage. |
0:26.3 | She was a born soldier. |
0:27.4 | She's a freedom fighter in its widest sense. |
0:29.9 | The brand new series of History's secret heroes. |
0:32.8 | Listen first on BBC Sounds. |
0:34.7 | This Scotland Outdoors podcast with Mark Stephen and Rachel Stewart from BBC Radio Scotland. |
0:45.0 | Hello, thank you very much for choosing to listen to this. |
0:47.2 | As you know, we built the Scotland Outdoors podcast from the live programme we do for BBC Radio Scotland, which is called Out of Doors. |
0:53.3 | And this week we spend a lot of time talking about the King of Fish. |
0:56.8 | Or as my father would put it, readfish. |
1:01.7 | Good morning, I'm Mark Stephen and right beside me here at Beach Grove in Aberdeen, Rachel Stewart. |
1:06.6 | Yeah, what a lovely morning it is actually, isn't it? |
1:09.1 | It's really quite mild. |
1:10.3 | It is actually, it's not bad. Yeah. Six, seven morning it is actually, isn't it? It's really quite mild. It's actually not bad. |
1:11.3 | Yeah. |
1:11.5 | Six, seven degrees, something like that. |
1:13.1 | And it's not too windy, so actually very pleasant. |
1:14.8 | It's not snowing. |
1:15.5 | Look on the bright side. |
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