Ben Lawers's guest appearances

Ben Lawers

Open Country

The Milestone Pursuit

Seamus Heaney

John Muir

Konnie Huq

Rick Stein

Thomas Hardy

George Eliot

Frank Turner

Antony Gormley

Jarvis Cocker

Helen Glover

Eliza Carthy

Gertrude Jekyll

Sathnam Sanghera

Laurie Lee

Julie Walters

OwlTail

Hi - this is a special edition recorded while exploring the Munros of the Scottish Highlands. It's something of a set of reflections about the last 5 months, a little about the London Marathon, running twitter and new chapters. Includes some rants, some sheep and a LOT of wind......did I make it to the top (and back down again)??? Can you even put up with the podcast long enough to find out?Hope you enjoy it. Here's the pic I took while recording..... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Hi - this is a special edition recorded while exploring the Munros of the Scottish Highlands. It's something of a set of reflections about the last 5 months, a little about the London Marathon, running twitter and new chapters. Includes some rants, some sheep and a LOT of wind......did I make it to the top (and back down again)??? Can you even put up with the podcast long enough to find out?Hope you enjoy it. Here's the pic I took while recording..... See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.

Special Edition - The Ascent of Ben Lawers (a 1200m peak in the scottish highlands)

Helen Mark is in Perthshire to climb Ben Lawers above Loch Tay for a better view of the southern Highlands. Scotland's 10th highest Munro, it's home to rare alpine wildflowers, and loved by walkers. The landscape's been shaped by centuries of grazing, first by cattle and in more recent times by sheep. Helen visits the sites of the old shielings, the summer dwellings used by farming families after driving their livestock up for the pastures. Back down at loch level, Helen visits the locality's annual Kenmore Highland Games, and finds out what a crannog is. Visiting the Scottish Crannog Centre she learns why these ancient fortified dwellings were built over the lochs, on wooden piles. Up on Ben Lawers overlooking Loch Tay Helen also finds out about the ancient 'cup and ring' markings engraved on boulders long before even the crannogs were built. We might not know their purpose, but that doesn't stop us from guessing. Producer: Mark Smalley.

Helen Mark is in Perthshire to climb Ben Lawers above Loch Tay for a better view of the southern Highlands. Scotland's 10th highest Munro, it's home to rare alpine wildflowers, and loved by walkers. The landscape's been shaped by centuries of grazing, first by cattle and in more recent times by sheep. Helen visits the sites of the old shielings, the summer dwellings used by farming families after driving their livestock up for the pastures. Back down at loch level, Helen visits the locality's annual Kenmore Highland Games, and finds out what a crannog is. Visiting the Scottish Crannog Centre she learns why these ancient fortified dwellings were built over the lochs, on wooden piles. Up on Ben Lawers overlooking Loch Tay Helen also finds out about the ancient 'cup and ring' markings engraved on boulders long before even the crannogs were built. We might not know their purpose, but that doesn't stop us from guessing. Producer: Mark Smalley.

Loch Tay and Ben Lawers