Did you know that you can listen to many of your favourite podcasts first on BBC Sounds?

Like Desert Island Discs, where you can hear castaways like Cher, Gareth Southgate and Nick Cave,

and enjoy longer versions of the music they've picked.

Good things come to those who don't wait.

Listen to your favourite podcasts first on BBC Sounds.

The Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.

Hello and thank you very much for downloading this.

I'm Mark Stephen.

We build the Scotland Outdoors podcast from the live programme we do for BBC Radio Scotland,

which is called Out of Doors.

And it tends to be a pretty mixed bag.

No exception this week. We had everything.

We started off talking about wise autumn late this year.

And we really rounded everything off with the sheer joy of being

gently thrashed with birch twigs.

A very good morning to you, it's dark. Now I always start these programs by giving

you a description or something lyrical or try to be slightly poetical about things I've seen

or you know just felt on the way in

it's just dark this morning I mean astonishingly dark anyway I'm Mark stephen I'm standing here in

beachgrove in Aberdeen my companion this morning standing right beside me yet hello needham well good

morning I'm very happy to be here in the dark with this warm fire spitting away at us.

That's it. Your clothes will be burning, shaw. Indeed. Please get in touch with us this morning.

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