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This Scotland Outdoors podcast with Mark Stephen and Rachel Stewart from BBC Radio

Scotland.

Hello and thank you very much for choosing to listen to this.

As you probably know, we built the Scotland Outdoors podcast

from the live programme we do for BBC Radio Scotland,

which is called Out of Doors.

This week we've been rather fascinated by donkeys,

and we discover what you call the cross

between a donkey and a zebra.

I missed an absolutely stonking mystery sound this week

I was sitting in our big room

you know in Stephen Towers

and there was this sound

utterly weird sound

for all the world it sounded like distant thunder

but it went on and on

it wasn't a roll of thunder because this went on for minutes

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