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Scotland Outdoors

Geese Sculpture, a Modern Stone Circle and Crossing the Cuillin Mountains

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7709 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2023

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Founded by Jordan Grant after he was inspired as a teenager to turn his life around, Glasgow Garden Maintenance is now offering an apprenticeship scheme for aspiring tree surgeons. Mark meets Jordan and a former apprentice to hear about how the business has gone from strength to strength supporting young people into new careers along the way.

Rachel visits the Scottish Fisheries Museum in Anstruther and takes a look at one of their exhibitions- The Long Haul: a generational study of fishing in the East Neuk. We hear an excerpt from Helen Needham’s upcoming Radio 4 programme, Crossing the Cuillin Mountains. In this two part series, the writer and mountaineer Robert Macfarlane attempts to complete the Cuillin Ridge. The expedition marks twenty years since his first book 'Mountains of the Mind'.

Naturalist and environmental educator Dan Puplett has seen a big increase in the number of people keen to learn more about mammal tracks. Rachel heads out with him to see what she can identify through footprints and poo! We chat live to Rick Taylor, from the South of Scotland Golden Eagle Project about the recent successful translocation of Golden Eagle chicks to the area as well as the upcoming Moffat Eagle Festival.

Mark visits the Sighthill Stone Circle in Glasgow along with podcast maker Matthew Magee. Matthew has been exploring some of Scotland’s fascinating neolithic sites on his bike for his series Stone Me. He explains what makes Sighthill unique.

Skein Dial is a new art installation created by Hannah Imlach at RSPB Loch Lomond. It is a migration sundial carefully calibrated to mark the seasonal arrival and departure of Greenland White-fronted geese. Mark takes a look and finds out how Hannah created it.

And after his chat with Hannah, Mark continues his musings on geese and what their arrival at this time of year means for us.

Transcript

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0:00.0

He tells her that she will be sent to France as a secret agent, and if she's caught, she's going to be shot.

0:09.3

I'm Helen Obalam Carter, and this is history's secret heroes, where I shine a light on extraordinary stories from World War II.

0:17.6

What they wanted was someone to get themselves arrested and sent to Auschwitz.

0:22.0

Tales of deception, an incredible acts of resistance and courage.

0:26.3

She was a born soldier.

0:27.4

She's a freedom fighter in its widest sense.

0:29.9

The brand new series of History's secret heroes.

0:32.8

Listen first on BBC Sounds.

0:34.7

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

0:45.1

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

0:47.8

As you probably know, we build the Scotland Outdoors podcast from the live programme we do for BBC Radio Scotland which is called Out of Doors.

0:54.8

And this week, quite an unusual mystery sound. Mark has described it as the most painful

1:00.0

mystery sound we've ever had.

1:02.1

Out of Doors with Mark Stephen and Rachel Stewart from BBC Radio Scotland.

1:12.1

Week two and the breaking swans continue to cause chaos in the A-90.

1:17.7

Seriously, I was trying to get back down to Glasgow on Wednesday.

1:21.2

And again, half a mile tail back, not one, not two children, three police cars in attendance

1:27.1

trying to sort it out.

1:28.3

And you've got to admire their persistence.

1:30.3

The swans are just trying to cross the road. That's all.

1:33.3

Good morning. I'm Mark Stephen. Right beside me, Rachel Stewart, here at Beachgrove and Aberdeen.

1:37.3

We bidded you a fond farewell to the warmth of last week, because there's a right nippineer or the wars.

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