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Scotland Outdoors

The River Tay - Perth to Dundee

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7709 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Mark Stephen and Euan McIlwraith present the Scotland Outdoors podcast

Transcript

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0:22.9

The Scotland Outdoors podcast with Mark Stephen and Ewan McElwraith from BBC Radio Scotland.

0:34.0

Hello and thanks very much for choosing to listen to this.

0:37.2

In this edition of the podcast, and myself, Mark Stephen and you and Macalwraith

0:41.4

are going to continue our journey along Scotland's longest river, the tea.

0:45.4

We're going to start off in the fair city, Perth, about to visit an island in the middle of the river.

0:51.4

The most usual way across to the allotment is by a walkway which is by the side of the

0:55.9

rail bridge but at low tide and low river levels there's actually a causeway that you can drive

1:01.3

across. It's a bit bumpy and I would recommend a four by four vehicle. This is Linda Leggett and we're

1:05.8

still actually on our trip down the river T. We're actually just standing in the city of Perth at the moment.

1:11.3

I'm Mark Stephen.

1:12.3

This is Out of Doors.

1:13.8

As you can hear, we're not live from the car park.

1:15.9

Also here, Mr Ewan McElroy.

1:17.9

Yeah, we made it to the fair city, Scotland's newest city, actually.

1:21.1

And we've rather bizarrely head to an island here in the middle of Perth. Remember we're not live but you can email us out of doors at

1:28.4

bbc.c.court. UK. Linda, is your husband John across the other side of the island? Yes, he is. They go

1:32.4

train. See, you asked that the walkway goes beside the railway line. Yes, absolutely. Yeah.

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