A Lavender Farm in Fife, Cairngorm Wildfires and a Sealife Safari

In this week’s Scotland Outdoors podcast Mark meets author Cal Flyn, whose latest book is called The Savage Landscape – How we Made the Wilderness. We hear an excerpt of Cal explaining where her interest in exploring the meaning of wilderness came from.

Rachel is on the North East coast on a seabird spotting safari run by the Aberdeen Countryside Ranger Service. The trips have become popular with visitors who arrive in the area by cruise ship.

Over the last week the Glenmore area of the Cairngorm National Park has been severely impacted by wildfires. Mark...