Scotland's first seaweed festival, a field of flowers and the dark history behind some Scottish canals

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2021

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Scotland's first seaweed festival, a field of flowers and the dark history of our canals

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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.
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0:18.7	Listen to your favourite podcasts first on BBC Sounds.
0:24.1	The Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.
0:33.3	Hello and thanks very much for downloading this.
0:35.5	I'm Mark Stephen.
0:36.3	We build the weekend Scotland Outlaws podcast out of the Live programme we do for BBC Radio Scotland, which featured all sorts of things this week. There was a seaweed festival run by the Isle Martin Trust up in the far north-west. There was wild flowers and we heard some grizzly tales from both canals and the Isle of Dura.
0:56.1	It's a fairly mixed bag. So this is how it came across.
1:02.4	I'm sitting here like a little old man in front of my fire underneath the Portugal
1:08.0	because it is peeing rain here in BBC Aberdeen this morning.
1:11.4	I've got a cup of drinking chocolate.
1:12.9	Basically all I need is a waterproof big slipper.
1:15.9	I'm Mark Stephen here in Beach Grove.
1:18.1	Further north, probably equally in teeming rain.
1:21.2	Mr. Ewan McElwereff.
1:23.2	A slightly different picture because it is wonderfully atmospheric here.
1:32.7	There was a low, thick mist and a gentle, gentle autumnal rain.
1:36.8	Not only I grumble about the rain, but it's just wonderful this morning.
1:38.5	A few swallows about.
1:40.7	I got my back detector to work.
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