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Out for the Weekend

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Nicola Meighan

Inspiration for getting out and about at the weekend with Fiona Stalker.

Fiona Stalker offers inspiration and insight into what is happening across Scotland as the weekend approaches. Includes gardening and weather news.

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Out for the Weekend: Guinness Book of Records, Egyptians and Reading for Stress

Guinness Book of Records, Egyptians and Reading for Stress

BBC Radio Scotland - Out for the Weekend, Guinness Book of Records, Egyptians and Reading for Stress

Fiona chats with the editor of the Guinness Book of Records.

A man with over 15 years of experience scouring the globe for records, Dundonian Craig Glenday joins Fiona to talk about his work as editor of the Guinness Book of Records.

Fiona gets access to the National Museum of Scotland’s Egyptian collection and stumbles on what might be the first smartphone to the gods.

A new exhibition of photographs starts next week in Edinburgh as part of the Magic Festival, focusing on the art of an optical illusion. Professor of psychology and illusion expert, Richard Wiseman, tells Fiona more. 

Music lovers old and young are working together on a special event for the opening of the Aberdeen Music Hall this weekend. Andy McTaggart from Scottish Opera is on hand to tell us all about it.  

A new anthology of adventure writing, poetry, and art made by women called Waymaking came out earlier this year and Anna Fleming and Heather Dawe, who both worked on the book, explain why it matters.
 
Fiona visits the writers museum in Edinburgh to learn about the famous faces there.
  
We’ll be talking about the benefits of reading to reduce stress, in only 6 minutes! Fiona will be speaking to someone who has already read nearly 250 books this year!

Sleep in the Park is back for another year of raising money and awareness of homelessness, and Fiona is joined by someone taking part for the second time, and their more reluctant friend!

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