Edinburgh Outdoors

Sean Magee headed outdoors and launched CPS Activities after a long career in recruitment, first aid training and social care.  Having found the career of his dreams means Sean can now take put his we...

6 Mar 202522min

Tracy Griffen is a really impressive personal trainer who uses the outdoors as a core part of her workouts.  After leaving Australia thirty years ago, Tracy has built a business that brings the Scotti...

25 Feb 202521min

The Lost Shore Surf Resort is Edinburgh's coolest new activity centre and so much more.  Set beside the International Climbing Arena in Ratho to the west of the city and close to the airport, Lost Sho...

13 Feb 202530min

Katie Paterson is a truly inspiring and talented woman who has cycled round the world on an astounding journey, worked on national campaigns to get more people outside and launched the hugely successf...

4 Feb 202525min

Calton Hill Conservation Trust is a relatively new team of volunteers who are preserving and enhancing the historic Calton Hill right in the middle of the city.   Set above Princes Street with stunnin...

28 Jan 202523min

The first episode of Season 2: Dunbars Close on the Canongate in Edinburgh's Old Town is a reimagined seventeeth century garden and is well worth a visit.  Containing eight distinct areas, the garden ...

15 Jan 202534min

The final podcast of Season 1 discovers Edinburgh's fascinating geology and the role played in the eighteenth century by the father of modern geology: James Hutton.    I met up with geologist Angus Mi...

16 Des 202425min

Anna Neubert Wood runs her own business, Wander Women.  She created it to take women initially - but now everyone including individuals and groups - into the wilds to find peace, tranquility and child...

2 Des 202425min