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🗓️ 6 November 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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We've dug into our archive to bring you a programme originally broadcast in 2012 when Mark Stephen followed the route taken by protagonist David Balfour in Robert Louis Stevenson's novel, 'Kidnapped'.
In this first section, it's a brief visit to the Hawes Inn in South Queensferry before taking a boat to the Island of Erraid - which sits off Mull - and the magnificent beach where Davey found himself shipwrecked.
Mark is following the Stevenson Way.
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0:24.5 | Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland hello and thank you very much for choosing to listen to |
0:35.6 | this I'm Mark Stephen I love love to read. I love books. |
0:39.8 | I was quite a small child when I realized that books allowed you to explore the world in a virtual way. |
0:46.5 | And I was probably in my early 30s before I realized that you could reverse engineer that. |
0:51.9 | You could use the narrative of books to guide you through the real world. |
0:57.4 | In this edition, we've dug into our archive |
1:00.4 | and found a series we made back in 2012. |
1:03.0 | Now, that was the year when the Stevenson Way was launched. |
1:06.6 | It's a long-distance walking route |
1:08.0 | following the journey taken by David Balfour, |
1:10.4 | the hero of Robert |
1:12.0 | Louis Stevenson's classic novel, Kidnapped. |
1:14.6 | Now in this section, we begin, as Davy Balfour did, at the Hawes Inn in South Queensfrey |
1:21.5 | on the Firth of Forth, and we end up on the island of Erid, which is just off Mull in the Inner Hebrides. |
1:29.3 | This week we're following the route of a ripping yarn, |
1:32.9 | a genuine murder mystery. |
1:35.3 | It's a route that runs from the Gallic-speaking Western Isles |
1:37.9 | through Soliscon's most desolate and really dramatic scenery. |
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