Mark Stephen with a special podcast on the Hawick Common Ridings

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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From the annual event in the Scottish Borders.

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0:00.0	Did you know that you can listen to many of your favourite podcasts first on BBC Sounds?
0:06.6	Like Desert Island Discs, where you can hear castaways like Cher, Gareth Southgate and Nick Cave,
0:12.7	and enjoy longer versions of the music they've picked.
0:15.7	Good things come to those who don't wait.
0:18.7	Listen to your favourite podcasts first on BBC Sounds.
0:23.3	Hello and thank you very much for downloading the Scotland Outdoors podcast.
0:26.8	I'm Mark Stephen.
0:28.3	Normally this is based on a radio programme we do in BBC Radio Scotland called Out of Doors.
0:33.2	But occasionally, if it's something that we think might be of interest you and it's an outdoor activity anyway,
0:39.1	it comes from a series I also do called Our Story.
0:43.0	Now, this weekend, the weekend I'm recording this podcast,
0:46.3	the Howick Common Riding is taking place.
0:48.9	It is a remarkable event, very colourful, very varied.
0:52.9	We thought you might enjoy this.
1:10.1	Music event, very colourful, very varied. We thought you might enjoy this. It's five past six on a June morning, and that's the gritting lorry just gone past.
1:13.4	Hoyek is absolutely jumping this morning.
1:14.6	I'm Mark Stephen.
1:19.4	This is BBC Radio Scotland and this week our story belongs to the Hoyk Common Riding.
1:35.3	Hoyk is the first of the old border's common ridings and takes place each year on the Thursday, Friday and Saturday after the first Monday in June. Essentially it celebrates two historical events.
1:38.3	The first in 1514, which involved the young men of Hoyek at a place called Horn's Hole, and the second is their
1:45.1	ancient custom of riding the marches or boundaries of the common land. In the run-up to this,
1:51.7	there are ride-outs from the town to nearby villages and farms. The whole thing lasts for about
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