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Scotland Outdoors

A Life with Deer, Rewilding and Donating a Kidney with John Fletcher

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7709 Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Mark Stephen chats with deer farmer and author John Fletcher on his farm in Fife

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0:35.6

This Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.

0:45.4

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

0:48.8

I'm Mark Stephen.

0:50.4

In this edition, I meet a man of several firsts.

0:53.8

He was the first deer farm in Scotland,

0:55.9

the first person to set up meat by mail order, and the first man in Scotland to donate a kidney

1:01.9

altruistically. The man in question is John Fletcher. Now, I went to visit him recently on his farm

1:07.2

at Oktar Makti in Fife to discuss his life with deer, his ideas about rewolding,

1:12.6

and the very rewarding experience

1:14.5

of donating a kidney.

1:16.6

Now, we heads up, we discussed

1:18.5

darting and shooting deer, so if you'd rather

1:20.6

not hear about that, you might want to listen to

1:22.5

another episode of Scotland outdoors.

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