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Thomas Macrae.

Life With Isle of Harris Distillery: ‘The Hearach is special, it has done so much for the island’

Cask and Still | News | Whisky
Isle of Harris distiller Thomas Macrae talks to us about his earliest memories of whisky and why The Hearach is so special to islanders. And...
Dr Max Coleman and Emma Beckinsale (RBGE), plant one of the two new wych elm saplings. This sapling was recovered from the site of the Beauly Wych Elm after the tree fell early last year and is thought to have come from the ancient tree.

The Beauly Elm: New life at the site of ‘Europe’s oldest’ wych elm

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For more than 800 years it stood in the Highland village of Beauly until last year when it succumbed to Dutch elm disease and fell...
Ewan McCuish.

Life With a skipper: ‘I’ll never tire of the stunning surroundings we are blessed with’

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Ewan McCuish, Master on MV Coruisk, talks to us about life on the water, Scotland's beauty, and how he fell in love with the sea. ...
Jane Dodd during an interview about flapper skate for Countryfile with Hamza Yassin.

Life With NatureScot: ‘The only way we are going to counter climate change is by working together’

News | Wildlife & Conservation
Operations Officers Jane Dodd on the marine life around Arygll, her work with the flapper skates and the impact of climate change on our seas....
Credit: Rachel Bolton.

Faces of Edinburgh: We find out what people love about the Scottish capital

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‘This is a city of shifting light, of changing skies, of sudden vistas. A city so beautiful it breaks the heart again and again,’ Alexander...
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Life With a horologist: ‘In watchmaking you can’t cut corners or learn things overnight, it takes time’

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Laings watchmaker Annika Leppala on following in her grandfather's footsteps as a horologist, learning the art of patience in a world full of immediacy and...

Composer Helen MacKinnon.

Life With a composer: ‘Queen Margaret of Scotland was an extraordinary woman, I wanted to celebrate her’

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Scottish composer Helen MacKinnon on leaving her job to peruse her music career and taking inspiration from Queen Margaret of Scotland for her latest work. ...
Head of Costume, Scottish Opera, Lorna Price. Credit: Antonia Bain.

Life With Scottish Opera: ‘I have been working in costume design for 37 years, no two days are the same’

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Scottish Opera's Head of Costume, Lorna Price, on falling in love with her Grandmother's Victorian sewing machine, using swimming to help her switch off and...
Natalie Booth

Life with Edinburgh Zoo: ‘I grew up watching Animal Planet. Sometimes I wish I was Doctor Dolittle’

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Zookeeper at The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland’s (RZSS) Edinburgh Zoo, Natalie Booth, on growing up watching Animal Planet and her love of training animals....
Charlotte auditing at Brodick Castle on the Isle of Arran. Credit: Colin McDowall/National Trust for Scotland

Life with The National Trust for Scotland: ‘I travel all over Scotland as a plant detective’

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Inventory Officer on the PLANTS (Plant Listing at the National Trust for Scotland) project, Charlotte Bottone talks about surveying thousands of Scotland's plants and what you...
Emma and Tweed at crufts.

Crufts: Scottish Labrador Tweed takes home top spot

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A Labrador retriever from the Scottish highlands was crowned overall winner of BASC’s gamekeeper classes on Gundog Day at Crufts 2024. Four year old Tweed...
A bright red weevil (Apions frumentarium).

Life with Forestry and Land Scotland: ‘People would be amazed at the nature that lives in their gardens’

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Environment manager for Forestry and Land Scotland, Colin Edwards, spends more time in nature than most. He talks to us about his passion for macrophotography...
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