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
Celebrity Goats, Sheep Shearing and Cold War Scotland
This week Rachel has been at the Royal Highland Show at Ingliston just outside Edinburgh. One of the first places she headed to when she arrived was the goat tent. She meets some of the keepers as th…
Awakening the Senses, Walking and Writing with Linda Cracknell
Helen Needham goes for a walk in Aberfeldy with writer Linda Cracknell to discuss the new edition of her book 'Doubling Back'.
The Saltire,Sligachan Statue and the Voice of Nan Shepherd
Open Seas is a Scottish charity that focusses on protecting our marine environment and the things that live in it. A few weeks ago, Mark joined them in Skye where they were carrying out seabed survey…
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE AT RAHOY HILLS RESERVE
Rachel Stewart speaks to Artist in Residence Liz Myhill. The landscape and wildlife artist has been creating pieces based on her time at the Rahoy Hills Reserve in the Morven peninsula. It is managed…
Aspen, Osprey and Mulberry Harbours
Rachel meets Peter Livingstone who has spent a decade campaigning to save the Aspen tree. Thanks to his hard work, numbers of Aspen in Renfrewshire have grown from single digits to thousands. He show…
Majorca and Skye, Singles Walks and Rahoy Nature Reserve
Rachel visits the Scottish Wildlife Trust’s Montrose Basin reserve in Angus where a group of nursery children were out exploring the mudflats to see what beasties they could find. She speaks to nurse…
Isle Martin - one of the Summer Isles of Wester Ross
Mark Stephen visits Isle Martin which forms part of the Summer Isles lying north of Ullapool in Wester Ross. The island is owned by a community trust and one of it's directors, Lesley Strachan shows…
Flax, Dandelions and Bike Buses
Rachel visits Fairhill Rise, an education centre in East Lothian which is part of the Ruskin Mill Trust. The centre provides outdoor learning and activities for those with autism and additional needs…
Chippendale International School of Furniture in East Lothian
Mark Stephen visits the Chippendale International School of Furniture near Haddington in East Lothian. He meets the principal and students from home and abroad taking part in the courses run by the …
Movement for Mental Health, Therapeutic Gardening and Connecting with the Land
In our latest Scotland Outdoors podcast Helen Needham meets regenerative farmer Nikki Yoxall in the hills of Aberdeenshire. Nikki’s cattle are outside all year round, moving from field to field as pa…
Mob Grazing Cattle in the Hills of Aberdeenshire with Nikki Yoxall
Helen Needham visits Nikki Yoxall and her herd of pasture fed cattle in Aberdeenshire
The River Tweed - Kelso to Berwick Upon Tweed
Mark Stephen and Rachel Stewart follow the river Tweed from Kelso to Berwick Upon Tweed.
In Kelso, they visit Floor Castle and Gardens in the company of Matt Thomson and Simon McManus. Jonathan Garret…
Connecting Poetry, Photography and Regenerative Farming with Sophie Gerrard and Iona Lee
Helen Needham learns about the We Feed the UK project
Dawn Chorus, Dipping Luggers and Moray Marsupials
On Thursday this week campaigners gathered outside the Scottish Parliament to protest the proposed plans for a new powerline between Kintore and Tealing. SSEN Transmission says the upgrade is needed …
WILD ISLES - A BEHIND THE SCENES LOOK AT THE MAKING OF THE NATURE SERIES
Producer Alastair Fothergill has spent decades making nature documentaries around the world, often working closely with Sir David Attenborough. His work includes Blue Planet and Planet Earth. In thi…
Spring in Montrose, Edinburgh's Grisly Past and Pine Tree Fungus
Back in 2020, some of farmer Steve Barron’s cattle fell ill and died. Initially he had no idea what had caused their sudden deaths until lead poisoning was found to be the reason. He tells Mark about…
From the Hills of Assynt to the Karakorum Mountains of Pakistan with Anne Wood
Helen Needham hears from musician and composer Anne Wood
Dreich Spring, Brose and Kayak Fishing
American Mink are an invasive non-native species which have become widespread in parts of Scotland after their release from fur farms. Rachel meets Karen Muller from the Scottish Invasive Species Ini…
Walking the Old Lumphanan Road with the Late Stanley Robertson
Stanley Robertson was from the Travelling People and in the 1980's he published a book called 'Exodus to Alford' featuring stories associated with a particular road his people used to take each Summe…
Plants with Purpose, Pitlochry Paths and a Biomaterial Dress
Linda is in Pitlochry where a group of volunteers meet once a fortnight to help maintain the area’s much loved and well used path network. She hears why the group were founded and about the different…