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Scotland Outdoors

Natural History Film Maker and Musician, Andrew O'Donnell aka Beluga Lagoon

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7709 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Andrew O'Donnell is a natural history film maker but he's also a musician who records under the moniker of Beluga Lagoon. Maud Starts meets up Andrew on a river bank where they watch dippers and talk about his latest album

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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

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0:17.6

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0:22.0

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0:26.3

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0:27.4

She's a freedom fighter in its widest sense.

0:29.9

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0:32.8

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0:35.6

This Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.

0:44.4

I'd still sort of hope one day

0:48.0

if I'm out walking down at a river at night time

0:50.8

or film or sitting and look behind,

0:53.5

never know what you might see.

0:54.8

They might be like a goblin or a fairy or a Selkie.

1:01.2

Thank you for choosing to listen to this Scotland Outdoors podcast.

1:05.0

Today we'll be talking with Natural History filmmaker Andrew O'Donnell,

1:09.2

who you may well know by his musical moniker,

1:11.9

Baluga Lagoon. I've picked up a recurring theme throughout his tunes, a carrying stream, if you like,

1:18.2

of rivers and of water. With a new album just released, I wanted to find out what it's all about.

1:24.5

So without further ado, here he is, Beluga Lagoon, in his natural habitat,

1:29.7

next to a river, binoculars in hand. There's a dipper over there, synchle-synchis, Latin name.

1:38.8

I think they actually might be nesting here again. So your natural history wildlife photographer, filmmaker?

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