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Rachel learns about efforts to protect Scotland’s adder population, as it is thought the snake’s numbers are declining. She joins Ecologist Stephen Corcoran and Kirstin Mair from Nature Scot in the Cairngorms.

Mark learns about traditional use of toxic plants for medicine with returning guest, NHS Doctor Rajendra Raman.

A pair of Ospreys—birds once thought extinct in the UK—have returned ahead of schedule to the Loch of the Lowes Nature Reserve. Rachel speaks with Ranger Sara Rasmussen who was delighted to welcome the birds back to their Perthshire home, as they improve their nest with hopes to rear chicks in the upcoming months.

In an extract from our midweek podcast, Mark travels to Mar Lodge Estate in the Cairngorms, where a long-term woodland regeneration project is underway and finally bearing fruit. He speaks to ecologist Shaila Rao in Glen Derry.

Mark goes on boat trip around the Isle of May, leaving Anthruster Harbour in Fife.

Rachel travels through history, visiting the origins of Scotland’s most ambitious building project: the Antonine Wall. She speaks with Stephen Balfour and Severine Peyrichou from the Rediscovering the Antonine Wall Project. They have launched a new exhibition at Callandar House in Falkirk telling the story of those who built this World Heritage site that once marked the northernmost border of the Roman Empire.

Mark explores rural 1850s Govan, in Glasgow with author Karen Murdarasi, who talks him through Rambles Round Glasgow, the travelogue of Victorian journalist and Robert Burns’ defender Hugh Macdonald.