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Out of Doors: 23/07/2016

23/07/2016

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Film star animals, Scottish Parliament bees, Orkney chairs and the Gordon Highlander train

Join Mark Stephen and Helen Needham for film star animals, Scottish Parliament bees, Orkney chairs and the Gordon Highlander train.

In the first thirty minutes...

Mark meets a farmer in Northern Ireland who supplies animal stars to the film industry.

Laura hears about rural careers open to young people in Scotland.

Claire discovers that community renewable energy may soon be used to fuel Orkney ferries.

After the news...

Mark tours mainland Scotland's most important archaeological landscape, Kilmartin Glen, in the company of local Museum Director and Curator, Dr Sharon Webb MBE.

Euan learns about The Polar Academy, an exploration charity helping schoolchildren who are struggling emotionally and socially.

Claire watches Jackie Miller of Scapa Crafts make an Orkney Chair.

Mark visits the Scottish Parliament's beehives.

And Euan is aboard the vintage Gordon Highlander locomotive.

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