Tattie Tastic Light Fantastic
Scotland Outdoors
BBC
4.7 • 756 Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2025
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Potato Enthusiast Bob Donald talks to Rachel about a community growing project in Aberdeen which has led to libraries in the north east handing out seeds and seed tatties.
Mark speaks with volunteers from a walking group in Govan, who share their personal experiences with homelessness and social hardship. They’re now involved in an innovative project that aims to turn them into city tour guides.
As we enter British Summer Time, Professor Danny Smith from Edinburgh University joins us to explain the importance of daylight for our body’s circadian rhythm and its impact on our wellbeing.
Phil Sime, who is completely blind, offers his perspective on life without the ability to tell if it’s light or dark, shedding light on the challenges of navigating the world without sight.
Helen Needham heads to the Scottish Borders to meet writer and outdoor enthusiast Kerri Andrews, who shares insights from her book about motherhood and the identity shifts that come with it.
Mark talks to young farmer Nicola Wordie about the pressures and demands of farming during lambing season. Nicola also discusses her involvement in a project aimed at tackling isolation within Scotland's farming and crofting communities.
Rachel visits St Fillan’s Cave in Pittenweem, where she uncovers the history behind the cave’s name and discovers that Christian services are still held at its ancient stone altar today.
Mark speaks to Mike Vass, Director of the National Centre of Excellence in Traditional Music, to hear about his journey of blending music with maritime experiences, following an illness in 2013 that inspired him to compose music drawn from the high seas.
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| 0:00.0 | This Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland. |
| 0:09.5 | Hello and thank you very much for choosing to listen to this. |
| 0:12.7 | As you probably know, we do a couple of Scotland outdoors podcasts every week, |
| 0:16.2 | and one of them is based on the live programme we do for BBC Radio Scotland, |
| 0:20.5 | which is called Out of Doors. |
| 0:22.0 | And this week, we didn't mean for this to happen, |
| 0:25.0 | but we've kind of gone a bit tattie daft. |
| 0:28.1 | Out of Doors with Mark Stephen and Rachel Stewart from BBC Radio Scotland. The That was the sound of the dawn chorus when we actually came into the car park this morning. |
| 1:02.1 | I made blackbirds, wood pigeons, probably Robin, I think. |
| 1:07.4 | Robin, I think. |
| 1:08.0 | There was gulls at one stage, just grumbling in the background. There's the crow again. |
| 1:11.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:12.6 | Yeah, it's nice. |
| 1:13.6 | It's building up. Really, really nice. More than I had outside my house this morning, I think I heard a Robin and that was a bit. Yeah. No, when I came out of the house this morning, it was too dark for them to actually have started. Yeah. is great. You know, British summertime and all that |
| 1:08.6 | because you've got the longer evening and what have you, but |
| 1:10.6 | we've got accustomed to getting out in the light, and now it's back again and we have to wait. Morning, I'm Mark Stephen, bumping my guns as usual. She's Rachel Stewart the other side of the fire. We're never happy, are we? Never, never. We have had a glorious week of weather in the northeast. Amazing. I was driving south on Thursday and just south of Aberdeen, the sunset, the sunrise was gorgeous. |
| 1:51.1 | So a really orangey, gorgeous sky and the frost was just lifting from the ground in it. |
| 1:56.0 | Absolutely beautiful. |
| 1:57.0 | And then, of course, we're getting the long evenings as well. |
| 1:58.9 | What's not to like? |
| 1:59.8 | No, when you get, when the frost lifts on the ground and you get the sun behind it, you know, and the sort of steam is just blooming off. |
| 2:06.2 | My neighbour had a bonfire yesterday morning. Even that was beautiful up against the light. |
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