Islay Part One

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Mark and Rachel visit the island of Islay, the southernmost island of the Inner Hebrides. They take a walk with gamekeeper turned outdoor guide, DJ MacPhee, to get an overview of the island which has a diverse range of landscapes and habitats.

They then head to Loch Finlaggan, the seat of the Lord of the Isles, a site of huge significance for hundreds of years, and hear all about its history from Mairead Mackechnie of the Loch Finlaggan Trust.

Next they visit a re-discovered ancient lifting stone on the shores of Loch Gruinart. Niall Colthart tells them about the legends attached to it and Mark tries his hand at lifting it.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Did you know that you can listen to many of your favourite podcasts first on BBC Sounds?
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0:18.7	Listen to your favourite podcasts first on BBC Sounds.
0:23.5	This Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.
0:32.8	Hello and thank you very much for choosing to listen to this.
0:35.6	As you probably know, we built the Scotland Outdoors podcast
0:37.9	from the live programme we do for BBC Radio Scotland,
0:40.8	which is called Out of Doors.
0:43.0	And this week we're a bit off the beaten track.
0:50.6	We've got so much different habitats
0:52.5	from salt marsh to blanket bog to coastal cliffs.
0:57.6	You know, it's really, the habitat on Isle is incredible.
1:05.7	If I did ever come to want to sort of fly the nest it would be tough because you get
1:10.9	used to the rhythm of life the wilderness
1:13.2	the species it would be hard to
1:15.1	sort of leave that
1:16.6	you know the magic of being out on the
1:19.0	moss and the smell of the heather
1:22.2	and the well more particularly of the bog myrtle
1:24.6	and the birds
1:26.4	you know the curlews and things like that.
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