The Power of the View with Alec Finlay

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

A conversation between geographer and writer Hayden Lorimer and Alec Finlay, in which Alec describes his creative practice around limit and how he came to appreciating and celebrating the View.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:06.1	Can I just say?
0:07.6	You're about to listen to a BBC podcast.
0:10.0	It's such a wonderful listen.
0:11.7	So nice.
0:12.5	There are loads more like it on BBC Sounds.
0:14.8	Different paces, different heights, the roof is buckling.
0:17.9	Where you can also listen to live sports commentary.
0:20.2	It's right foot goes for goal.
0:21.6	Oh!
0:22.7	And then enjoy even more podcasts full of analysis and reaction to the big stories.
0:27.7	The stat that is astonishing is they ended with the lowest amount of possession.
0:31.2	And she's had to live with that.
0:32.8	So if you love sport, a passion, it's almost like a religion.
0:35.8	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:37.8	Sort of expecting that every week now.
0:41.2	This Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.
0:50.5	So we're in a classic Edinburgh tenement.
0:54.5	I'm on the top floor looking out over the whole city.
0:58.7	We're looking at the crags, at Arthur Sheet, at the castle, at the turd and at the penlands.
1:07.0	I have a very strong memory of that first spring with COVID when I was very ill.
1:14.5	I got ill the week before lockdown immediately into long COVID.
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