4.7 • 709 Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2024
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Rachel is in Fife to meet a woman who is leading the charge on making the outdoors accessible to all. Jan Kerr set up a rambling group for those who rely on wheels, particularly mobility scooters. She tells Rachel how it came about.
Over the past few years, a group of badger enthusiasts has been surveying the Central Belt to track the number of setts they can find. Having completed the length of the River Clyde, the group are now surveying between Glasgow Green and Arthur’s Seat. Mark went along to meet them as they checked a site near the M8 motorway.
In this week’s Scotland Outdoors podcast Helen meets up with professional woodworker Callum Robinson. We hear an excerpt where he explains where his passion for wood came from.
Next week the winners of the BBC’s Food and Farming Awards will be unveiled at a ceremony in Glasgow. Out of Doors and Landward have our own category – the BBC Scotland Food Hero award. Over the past few weeks, Rachel has been visiting the three finalists, and this week we hear from Lisa Houston from the Lauriston Agroecology Farm near Edinburgh which concentrates on food growing, biodiversity and community.
Christmas is fast approaching and many people already have their decorations up, including their tree! But have you ever considered renting a living Christmas Tree? Laura visits a farm in Aberdeenshire where you can do just that.
November 30th is of course St Andrew’s Day. And while he is the patron saint of Scotland, his day is also celebrated in many countries around the world including Poland. We’re joined live by Grażyna Zuziak to tell us about the Polish traditions of St Andrew’s Day including future telling.
Helen visits Sue Laidlow who has been knitting a blanket, or rather blankets, throughout 2024 which track the changing temperatures. As temperatures change, so does the colour of the wool used which results in a rather impressive record charting a whole year of highs and lows in our temperatures.
Brothers Mike and Andy Truscott are artists who under the name Kinbrae, create soundscapes usually inspired by the landscapes and nature they love most. They’ve just released some new material and took Rachel to a park where they recorded some of the sounds.
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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 | I'm Helen Obalam Carter, and this is history's secret heroes, where I shine a light on extraordinary stories from World War II. |
0:17.6 | What they wanted was someone to get themselves arrested and sent to Auschwitz. |
0:22.0 | Tales of deception, |
0:23.4 | an incredible acts of resistance |
0:25.1 | and courage. |
0:26.3 | She was a born soldier. |
0:27.4 | She's a freedom fighter |
0:28.3 | in its widest sense. |
0:29.9 | The brand new series |
0:31.0 | of history's secret heroes. |
0:32.8 | Listen first on BBC Sounds. |
0:36.1 | This Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland. |
0:40.3 | Hello and thanks very much for choosing to listen to this. |
0:48.3 | As you may know, we create this podcast, Scotland Outdoors, from the live programme that we do on BBC Radio Scotland, |
0:56.0 | called Out of Doors. And this week we're celebrating St Andrew's Day with some live fortune |
1:02.0 | telling. Good morning and what a lovely one it is here in Beach Grove in Aberdeen. It's incredibly mild, about 10 degrees. There's not a breath of wind. So no vigorous scraping of the wind screen required this morning, much to the relief of my poor neighbours. I'm Rachel Stewart. Mark's decided he's due a lion today. So keeping me company, Helen |
1:30.0 | Needham. Oh, it's such a beautiful morning, eerily still, actually, isn't it? When I came out |
1:34.8 | the house, I just thought, oh, it's so silent and still. It's quite unnerving in a way. |
1:41.3 | It is. I feel like I'm overdressed. And, you know, if you think back to Thursday, |
1:44.6 | I don't think we got above zero the whole day. No. I was observing a field of sheep eating broccoli, |
1:50.7 | frozen broccoli florets in a field in Fife and thinking, gosh, that must be hard work. |
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