Cairngorms
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Sep 16, 2026
Lynn ThompsonNARRATOR
Many with silver brooches and some of those brilliant crystals.
Lynn ThompsonNARRATOR
found amid granite dust on the frosty scalp of the Cairngorm, but with snuff-boxes all, and all their boxes using.
Lynn ThompsonNARRATOR
Here too were Catholic priests and established ministers standing, one to say grace before, the other after the dinner.
Lynn ThompsonNARRATOR
The Catholic priest, for many still clung to the ancient worship, and Sir Hector's father himself, had built them a chapel.
Lynn NiemanHOST
And sometimes the places that you knew the least about beforehand will become your favorites after.
Lynn NiemanHOST
I will say that Glen Afric was probably one of the lesser known places that this group that we just had in Wild Heart of Scotland here in the Cairngorms and Highlands in 2026, they probably didn't know a whole lot about it.
Lynn NiemanHOST
And I can tell you that it wowed us all.
Lynn NiemanHOST
I had known about it.
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speaker_4SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Uh, so one of the oldest in Scotland.
Lynn NiemanHOST
Then we had another day that was kind of mix.
Lynn NiemanHOST
We visited the, the Cairngorms reindeer herd, which was a little bit more of a cultural thing, even though it was an outdoors thing and it was a short walk, a nature thing.
Lynn NiemanHOST
But it was still kind of cultural because we kinda learned about the reindeer and this herd and, and why they were here and blah, blah, blah.
Graham NivenGUEST
... they've been on holiday.
Graham NivenGUEST
So we're here in the Cairngorms, and there's obviously lots of scenes that people will recognize, like the mountains or the bothies or the trees or the forest.
Graham NivenGUEST
Um, but perhaps not the, the way the light hit a mushroom on a cold Tuesday morning in November, you know?
IanHOST
[laughs]
Graham NivenGUEST
Um, I can be sat there and, and just be like, "What am I doing? I, this is like the 18th time I've been around this." You know, especially with Lightroom as it is now, um, I have, yeah, I try to structure it in the years, basically.
IanHOST
Yeah.
Graham NivenGUEST
Um, but sometimes, like, if for instance, like, sometimes for, for, you know, personal projects, but if a client's looking for specific images of something in the Cairngorms or wider Scotland or-
IanHOST
Yeah
Marcus ChownGUEST
And that's the first time that this magic of science was demonstrated, you know, that we, we can actually predict the existence of things that, that no one's thought about, no one's expected, and they'll be there when we look.
Marcus ChownGUEST
And the Higgs particle, a guy is, is hiking in the Cairngorm Mountains in Scotland in terrible conditions, Peter Higgs, in 1964, and he has this idea that there is this, should be this particle, this field called the Higgs field, that basically gives mass to everything.
Marcus ChownGUEST
And, and if you excite this, this field, you'll get a particle called the Higgs particle.
Marcus ChownGUEST
40 years later, at a cost of 5 billion euros, there it is, and Peter Higgs get, uh, gets the Nobel Prize.
Rachel MussonHOST
And it's important, I think, to hold both.
Rachel MussonHOST
And, you know, I want to also just sort of shout out for the Cairngorms because I did have an exquisite time up in the mountains and with a lot of beauty and also a lot of the richness of life.
Rachel MussonHOST
I've been met by some wild creatures this summer at exactly the right time and one being a white stag, which was quite prominent.
Rachel MussonHOST
And then even just this morning, I was feeling a bit And two white doves just came and sat on my windowsill with me.
DanielleHOST
Enter Scottish Adventure Planning Montage here.
DanielleHOST
Fast forward through an 11-hour flight, several episodes of your podcast, including the one set in Cairngorms National Park, the live show at the castle where, of course, I wore a princess dress and plaid, walking up and down the Royal Mile in more plaid, and then we end up in the magical Isle of Skye.
DanielleHOST
I am a huge Outlander fan and have always wanted to visit the Isle of Skye, and since I was in charge of planning this trip, that was happening.
DanielleHOST
We visit a few castles along the way, Eilean Donan, highly recommended, and take a gorgeous hike through a place called the...
DanielleHOST
Get out of our lands, we've let you be here long enough.
DanielleHOST
They seemed to be saying, needless to say, I no longer trust all trails.
DanielleHOST
Sorry if this is getting long, but to tie this into a national park, the next day we did go to Cairngorms, did a falconry experience, which was the coolest thing ever, and have a kooky British old man guide us on a beaver walk.
DanielleHOST
The place we were staying at that section of the trip was a rewilding project trying to reintroduce natural flora and fauna to the Cairngorms.
BeauHOST
We'll just go to the Cotswolds or something.
BeauHOST
We'll just go to the Cairngorms.
BeauHOST
We'll just pop down to Cornwall for a week instead then.
BeauHOST
Oh no, that's going to be insanely expensive as well.
Merryn GloverGUEST
I guess there was that sense of this greater outer danger which can be so all-consuming, and the story up until that point has been so much about the inner danger, the, the wounds that he's carried i- in relationships and in his own life, and then this wider context of something that threatens not just him, but these animals and this bush that he's come to love, and how he is so much at the heart of that crisis.
Merryn GloverGUEST
Interestingly, when I wrote that, it was earlier this year, and it was well before all of the fires that have consumed us around the world across this s- summer, including very near me here in the Cairngorms, which is, you know, unusual for us here in this part of Scotland where we normally have so much rain and damp, and that recognition of how vulnerable we all are and this landscape is as well, and how much our world is under threat because of the ways in which we have lived, um, and continue to live.
Merryn GloverGUEST
And that was something very important to me and interesting that that came to be so prescient this summer.
Tom SutcliffeHOST
Merryn Glover talking about her story Burning Bush, with the extract read by Mike Singelo.
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