Main content
Sorry, this episode is not currently available

Swans, Seaweed and Sand dunes

Join Mark Stephen and Euan McIlwraith for the latest outdoor activities from Shetland to the Borders, plus the key stories for those who live and work in the countryside.

Euan hears about the threat to some of our most well-known potato varieties from Blight when he visits the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh.

Mark visits the new Scottish Oceans Institute in St Andrews, a centre for excellence in marine science research.

Laura visits the James Hutton Institute in Invergowrie and learns about a research partnership between the institute and Davidsons Animal Feeds to look into the feasibility of turning seaweed into animal feed.

Euan catches up with Anne McCall, director of RSPB Scotland to find out how her first two years in the job have gone.

St Andrews West Sands was made famous for the opening scenes of the film Chariots of Fire and is a hugely popular beach. Mark finds out about the work that goes on behind the scenes to stop coastal erosion and protect its much loved sand dunes.

Ahead of the next episode of the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Scotland series Hidden Lives we take a look at the North East tradition of blackening.

Mark is in Dundee at a church aiming to become the greenest in Scotland.

And Euan had a lot of visitors earlier in the week, hundreds of Whooper Swans, we find out more about them and their unique calls.

1 hour, 30 minutes

Last on

Sat 2 Nov 2019 06:30

Broadcast

  • Sat 2 Nov 2019 06:30

Landward

Landward

Scotland's farming and countryside programme