Did you know that you can listen to many of your favourite podcasts first on BBC Sounds?

Like Desert Island Discs, where you can hear castaways like Cher, Gareth Southgate and Nick Cave,

and enjoy longer versions of the music they've picked.

Good things come to those who don't wait.

Listen to your favourite podcasts first on BBC Sounds.

BBC Sounds. Hello, Lucy White here from BBC Scotland's Podlitical. We'll let you get back

to Scotland outdoors in just a moment. But first, I want to tell you about our podcast. We're a

team of political journalists

who like to unpick what's actually happening

at the Scottish Parliament and Westminster.

We look at all these political decisions

and what they mean for you and me

and we try not to take ourselves too seriously.

We have a new episode every Thursday at 6pm.

Subscribe to Podlitical on BBC Sounds.

Now back to Scotland Outdoors.

The Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.

Hello and thanks very much for downloading this podcast.

I'm Mark Stephen. Nan Shepherds, a writer from my neck of the woods, the north-east of Scotland, who shot to fame in recent years.

If you haven't heard of her, you might recognise her as the face of the Scottish £5 note.

It was her seminal work about the Kermngombs, the Living Mountain, that really

established her as one of Scotland's finest nature writers. Now, she wrote, it's essentially

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