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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: Rock Climbing, Robert Burns and Wild Swimming

Rock Climbing, Robert Burns and Wild Swimming

BBC Radio Scotland - Out for the Weekend, Rock Climbing, Robert Burns and Wild Swimming

Fiona hears how 99-year-old Greta Plowman took to new heights on a climbing wall!

Fiona chats with crime author Peter May about the importance of location in his writing. 

We learn how 99 year old Greta Plowman reached the top of an indoor climbing wall, on her very first attempt!

We hear a review of the new stage adaptation of Touching the Void. 

One woman challenged herself to spend a whole year cleaning the beaches of Cornwall, but what did she learn in the process?

Wild swimming is currently experiencing a popularity boom. But back in the 1970’s Bill Hemingway made a name for himself wild swimming in Scotland’s lochs. Fiona finds out more about his story. 

Dippy the dinosaur has arrived in Glasgow and Karen MacKenzie went along to see the 70ft monster! 

And the Big Burns Supper is back for another year of outrageous fun and frivolity in Dumfries. We hear what’s in store from Graham Main.

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