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Scotland Outdoors

Veteran Cattle Breeder and Author, Harold Murray

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7709 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Mark Stephen meets Harold Murray, veteran cattle breeder and author from North East Scotland. Now in his nineties, Harold has spent his life working with cattle and more recently has turned his hand to writing and poetry

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm Mariana Spring, the BBC's social media investigations correspondent.

0:06.0

In my podcast, I've been investigating what happened to the daughter of a conspiracy theorist who died having rejected chemotherapy.

0:13.0

It would mean the world to me if I could make it that she wasn't just another in the long line of people that die in this way.

0:19.0

How does this reflect the rise of health conspiracy theories on social media and beyond?

0:24.8

The new series of Mariana in Conspiracy Land.

0:27.9

Listen on BBC Sounds.

0:31.1

This Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.

0:40.8

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

0:43.4

I'm Mark Stephen.

0:44.7

During the summer months in Scotland,

0:46.6

agricultural shows are a huge event for many.

0:49.4

Now, they feature all sorts of competitions

0:51.1

from floral art right through to the tasty scones,

0:53.8

but it's really

0:55.0

the livestock classes that shows are probably best known for because it provides the chance for

0:59.8

breeders to show off the best of their particular breeds. I recently met up with a northeast

1:05.4

veteran cattle breeder and judge to not only reminisce on his early days in the farm but to get up to date with

1:12.4

his more recent venture as an author and a poet i'll let him introduce himself oh well harlmarie

1:19.5

born at greens a glenbegg glass in 1932 and just started out with nothing and managed to hang on tilt up to new.

1:35.3

Were your parents' farmers?

1:39.3

My father was just a hell shepherd.

1:42.3

He started at the Invermarket Home Farm at Gloss.

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