Scotland Outdoors
A topical guide to life in the Scottish outdoors.
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 55 minutes
- Episodes
- 696
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Out of Doors Goes Forth
Mark and Euan follow the River Forth during the building of the Queensferry Crossing.
Mount Stuart House, Jenny Graham, Oystercatchers and the West Island Way
Mark Stephen and Euan McIlwraith with this Saturday's Scotland Outdoors podcast.
The Heart of Scotland
Mark and Euan attempt to answer one simple question: where is the heart of Scotland?
The Inverness to Kyle of Lochalsh railway
Mark and Euan travel the 82 mile Inverness to Kyle of Lochalsh railway line.
Charlie Gammack
Mark and Euan meet Charlie Gammack, a well known Speyside saddler at his shop in Aberlour
It's festival time - Mark and Euan are in Edinburgh in the midst of the action but also hunting out some quieter spaces
It's festival time in Edinburgh but Mark and Euan find a quieter space at Blackford Hill
In 2015, Euan McIlwraith took a flight with a RAF Sea King Search and Rescue helicopter and got involved in a real life rescue
Euan McIlwraith's on board a RAF Search and Rescue helicopter en route to a rescue
Mark and Euan visit the Forvie Sands ternery, the art deco Rothesay Pavilion and find out how to grow truffles
Terns, truffles and one of Scotland's most significant art deco buildings
Mark and Euan visit the coastal village of Collieston. They hear about its history, go rock pooling and tackle a beach picnic
Mark and Euan visit the coastal village of Collieston for some beachcombing and a picnic
Mark and Euan get up close to squirrels and seahorses and discover the history of the Shipping Forecast
The history of the Shipping Forecast, the life of a seahorse and a red squirrel up close
Microadventures
Mark goes bivving with two travellers looking for microadventures close to home.
Pike, Swifts, Cullen and a bunkhouse
Mark Stephen and Euan McIlwraith with the Scotland Outdoors podcast.
Has Scotland become divorced from nature? Mark Stephen meets journalist and broadcaster Lesley Riddoch to find out
Mark Stephen meets Lesley Riddoch who thinks Scotland has become divorced from nature
Mark and Euan visit the Holm of Papay, a very special building in Speyside and meet a musician with a passion for birds
A visually stunning building in Speyside and the musician with a passion for birds
Mark and Euan travel from Westray to Papa Westray in Orkney on the world's shortest scheduled flight.
Mark and Euan take to the skies in Orkney on the world's shortest scheduled flight
Mark visits the places in Orkney which were the inspiration for the writer George MacKay Brown
Mark's in Orkney visiting the places which inspired writer George MacKay Brown
Fiona Stalker chats to Sir Chris Bonington about his life of climbing.
An extended interview with legendary climber Sir Chris Bonington.
Transport special - steam, vintage landrover and the world's shortest flight.
Mark Stephen and Euan McIlwraith with stories from around Scotland.
Mark and Helen visit Scotland's premier agricultural event of the year - The Royal Highland Show at Ingliston
Mark and Helen are at the Royal Highland Show - Scotland's premier agricultural event
Royal Northern Spring Show
Back in snowy March, Mark and Euan visited the Spring show at the Thainstone Centre