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This Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.

Hello and thanks very much for choosing to listen to this. I'm Helen Needham. The 7th of February 2025 marks 90 years since the

death of Scottish author Lewis Graswick Gibbon. His most famous work is the first of the trilogy,

A Scots Quare. Sunset Song was published in 1932 and is set in the Merns in the northeast of Scotland.

Fifteen years ago, Mark Stephen Ewan McElwreath and myself made a programme exploring that area through the novel.

And given the anniversary, I thought it would be appropriate to share it with you now.

Listening back, I was reminded of a couple of remarkable moments that occurred during the recording of that program,

one of which involved witnessing seals showering under a waterfall in a cove south of Donotter Castle near Stonehaven.

I hope you enjoy.

This week, we're coming to you from nearly 1,500 feet up from the top of the

Kierna Mount, the road which crosses from D-side and over to the How the Merns in the North East of

Scotland, the very land that Graswick Gibbon was writing about in his most famous novel, Sunset

Song. Ordinarily, this would give us a fantastic panoramic view, but because of the fog at the moment,

we can probably see about 25 feet. Over the next hour, we'll be exploring Grassic Gibbon

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