The Oldest Munro Bagger, A Secret Bunker and Bikes Galore
Scotland Outdoors
BBC
4.7 • 756 Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2026
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Calum Maclean meets Kerry MacPhee and Beth Legg of Bike Trossachs at the Gravelfoyle event in Aberfoyle, where the gravel bike racing season started with a race called the Gravelfoyle 10.
The Nevis Range mountain bike season has just kicked off and the Mountain Bike Uplift is open. Mark meets John Sutherland to find out how the gondola works.
Helen Needham joins artist Jane Frere as she puts the finishing touches to her latest exhibition The Ark, which is showing at The Barn in Banchory. At the centre of the exhibition is a giant pastel of a tree of life containing drawings of over 170 species facing extinction.
In this week’s podcast excerpt, Mark meets Harry Fleming, owner of a cold war bunker on the Aberdeenshire coast. Mark hears the story of the bunker from the 1950s to the present day.
Mark and Calum are joined by vintage cycling enthusiast Scott Simpson, who runs the Vintage Cycling Scotland Facebook group and repairs and refurbishes older models to get them out on the road once more.
In 2022, Nick Gardner from Aultbea completed all of Scotland’s 282 Munros. When he set off he was 80 and he was 82 when he finished. A new film about Nick’s achievement has recently been released and Calum catches up with Nick and one of the film’s directors, Jay Golian, in Aberfeldy to find out more about The Oldest Munro Bagger.
Mark is back at the Nevis Range near Fort William to make his way down the Blue Doon bike trail.
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| 0:44.5 | Hello and thanks very much for choosing to listen to this, as I tell you every week. |
| 0:48.0 | We do a couple of Scotland outdoors podcasts every week, one of which is lovingly handcrafted from the live programme we do for BBC Radio Scotland, |
| 0:56.1 | which is called Out of Doors. |
| 0:57.8 | And this week it's quite a bike-heavy theme, both myself and Mark, are taking on cycling challenges. |
| 1:07.6 | I've never really described the car park here in BBC Aberdeen, but there's a little grassy mound and mature trees, and I've just noticed that somebody has bought two picnic benches and put them out on the grassy bit. The trouble is it's within throwing range of the public. Nobody has thought that through. Good morning, I'm Mark Stephen. Standing the other side of the fire pit this morning. |
| 1:29.3 | Callan, welcome. How are you doing? |
| 1:31.3 | Good, Mark. Yeah, I'm delighted to be here. |
| 1:33.6 | My first time, I think, in this car park. |
| 1:36.6 | Although I've heard it on the radio. I've heard the car park on the radio many times. |
| 1:40.0 | Many, many times. You've been on the programme onteen times. |
| 2:02.3 | I've been on a few times. I went swimming with yourself in the river Tay. It's often been swimming, I think. Yeah, usually. Usually, usually. As I recall that time in the River Tea, you were suggesting at one stage that we jump off some tree. Yeah. Yeah, I thought it was a bad idea. Unfortunately, that tree no longer exists. Really? Yes, it fell down. I think it was a year or two later. So you missed the chance and you'll never get the chance again. |
| 2:04.2 | Oh dear. What a pity. How sad? |
| 2:13.1 | Anyway, first time on the programme, you have an opportunity to say something you've always wanted to say. |
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