100 Years of BBC Aberdeen

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2023

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Out of Doors celebrates 100 years of BBC Aberdeen. This week we have a special programme looking back at what life was like in rural communities in 1923, how people enjoyed the outdoors and the early forms of conservation.

We’re joined by author and broadcaster Graham Stewart who tells us about the origins of broadcasting in Aberdeen.

Paula Williams from the National Library of Scotland tells us about how people used the outdoors for recreation in the 1920s and the growth of mountaineering.

Stuart Brooks, director of conservation and policy at the National Trust for Scotland explains the origins of the Trust and the conservation movement.

And Dr Tom McKean from the Elphinstone Institute at Aberdeen University tells us about who was listening to the radio from across rural Scotland and the North East in particular, and what their lives were like.

We also delve into the Aberdeen archives to get a flavour of what things sounded like in the 1930s and hear what conditions were like working in the early studios.

Rachel visits the Highland Folk Museum to see what life was like in the 1920s bothy and how people lived and worked in a ‘farm toun’.

And we hear from Professor Marjory Harper about the wave of emigration from the North East to places like Canada in the 1920s and the impact that made on rural communities.

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0:34.7	This Scotland Outdoors podcast with Mark Stephen and Rachel Stewart from BBC Radio Scotland.
0:45.4	Hello and thank you for choosing to listen to this.
0:48.8	As you know, we build the Scotland Outdoors podcast from the live programme we do for BBC Radio Scotland, which is called Out of Doors.
0:55.6	And this week, we were celebrating a rather special anniversary.
1:00.1	Out of Doors, celebrating 100 years of the BBC in Aberdeen.
1:08.7	Hello and welcome to a special Out of Doors recorded in our Aberdeen studio to mark 100 years of the BBC broadcasting in the city.
1:23.0	I'm Mark Stephen and standing right alongside me, Rachel Stewart.
1:29.0	Yay!
1:31.9	And we're delighted to be joined by a small and rowdy audience here at our current BBC headquarters in Aberdeen at Beachcroft Terrace.
1:38.5	I am rather liking your plummy voice.
1:41.0	Oh, I've read it. See, when I started broadcasting, you had to do that.
1:44.2	In England, they called it received pronunciation.
1:46.2	They didn't expect us to be able to do that, so they called it Educated Scots.
1:50.3	You had to broadcast, seriously.
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