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Sep 7, 2026
Owen InnesHOST
Somerset's army marched up the east coast of Scotland, keeping close to the ships.
Owen InnesHOST
This meant that the English could be supplied from the sea, and crucially their naval guns could support the army from the Firth of Forth.
Owen InnesHOST
The Scottish government knew that the invasion was coming, The region of Scotland was James Hamilton, the Earl of Arran.
Owen InnesHOST
And Arran had gathered an army of his own.
Owen InnesHOST
The English army had a much more sophisticated combination of artillery, firearms, infantry and cavalry.
Owen InnesHOST
And then there was the aforementioned English fleet.
Owen InnesHOST
The English ships that were sitting in the Firth of Forth began firing their guns towards the Scottish army.
Owen InnesHOST
Think about that for a moment.
Paul MalgratiHOST
I am Paul Malgrate and in this episode I meet Gary McKenzie, the award-winning, ecologically attuned poet and scholar, fifer, Glaswegian and translator from Gaelic.
Paul MalgratiHOST
We talk about Scotland, the Firth of Forth, the planet, deep time, oysters, glaciers and dares.
Paul MalgratiHOST
And as we listen to Gary's exquisite verse, we discuss the mad poet's dream of rendering the world into words.
Paul MalgratiHOST
Overall, it is a hopeful conversation, a vindication of local insight, art and craft against the forces of global extraction.
Paul MalgratiHOST
Bendórain, A Conversation with a Mountain, came out in 2021.
Paul MalgratiHOST
It was shortlisted for the Saltire Poetry Book of the Year award and longlisted for the Highland Book Prize.
Paul MalgratiHOST
Firth, your second poetry book about your beloved Firth of Forth, has just come out in August 2026.
Paul MalgratiHOST
In the epigraph of this latest collection of yours, Firth, I was interested in a certain quote that you put in there by the American nature writer Barry Lopez.
Doug JohnstoneGUEST
But the first science fiction, I had written a speculative novel called Thought Lines when I was with, I wrote it when I was with Favour and Favour, and it was set in a sort of alternative version of Edinburgh that was a major volcano and earthquake zone.
Doug JohnstoneGUEST
And there was a volcanic island in the Firth of Forth, and that's where a lot of the action happened.
Doug JohnstoneGUEST
So that was the book that got me dropped by Favour.
Doug JohnstoneGUEST
Why
John HarbourHOST
It has been a fortress, a royal palace, an armoury, a prison.
John HarbourHOST
Today it remains a symbol of Scotland itself, rising from the volcanic rock in which it was built, dominating both the old town and the elegant Georgian streets of the new town that sped northwards towards the Firth of Forth.
John HarbourHOST
Leaving Edinburgh always feels rather like closing the cover of one history book before opening another.
John HarbourHOST
The city's medieval skyline gradually disappears behind you.
Peter GauntGUEST
The battle and its outcome, as well as the wider campaign, all served to reinforce that fervent and dare one say almost self-fulfilling belief in an interventionist, providentialist and supportive God that had become so central to Cromwell's belief system and whole career.
Peter GauntGUEST
Writing to the Speaker of the House of Commons during the third week of July, Cromwell had portrayed the decision to throw most of his army across the Firth of Forth and into Fife, the manoeuvre that had precipitated the whole Worcester campaign, as done at the direction of God.
Oliver CromwellSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
After our waiting upon the Lord and not knowing what course to take, for indeed we know nothing but what God pleaseth to teach us of his great mercy, we were directed to send a party to get us a landing.
Peter GauntGUEST
The letters he wrote during August, as he was moving southwards from Scotland, drip with references to God's support and to doing the Lord's work.
speaker_3NARRATOR
Stirling Castle is north of Linlithgow, and is distant about fifteen or twenty miles from it.
speaker_3NARRATOR
The road to it lies not far from the shores of the Frith of Forth, a broad and beautiful sheet of water.
speaker_3NARRATOR
The castle, as has been before remarked, was on the summit of a rocky hill.
speaker_3NARRATOR
There are precipitous crags on three sides of the hill, and a gradual approach by a long ascent on the fourth side.
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speaker_0NARRATOR
The bark that takes me from thy smiles bears but my meaner half away.
speaker_0NARRATOR
The best is thine, my changeless heart Is given, beloved France, to thee, And let it sometimes, though we part, Remind thee, with a sigh, of me.
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it was on the nineteenth of august fifteen sixty one that the two galleys arrived at leith leith is a small port on the shore of the frith of forth about two miles from edinburgh which is situated somewhat inland the royal palace where mary was to reside was called the palace of holyrood It was, and is still, a large square building with an open court in the centre, into which there is access for carriages through a large arched passageway, in the centre of the principal front of the building.
speaker_0NARRATOR
In the rear, but connected with the palace, there was a chapel in Mary's day, though it is now in ruins.
Kate RudekNARRATOR
To north and northwest Bonnie Dundee the glens of Clan Alpin's warriors true Bennach Burn and Scots wha hae we Wallace bed and the banks of Ellenwater.
Kate RudekNARRATOR
To the north and east the Firth of Forth where the fishwives poor fellows darkle as they face the billows.
Kate RudekNARRATOR
To the west and southwest the banks and braes O Bonnie Doon Tam O'Shanter's land sweet Afton and Bonnie Loch Leven whence the Campbells are comin'.
Kate RudekNARRATOR
And to the south the braes of Yarrow Norham Castle's steep Tweed's fair river broad and deep and Cheviot's mountains lone And most sung of all, the border.
Rich NapolitanoHOST
From National Geographic...
Rich NapolitanoHOST
The Blessing of Burntisland, a wooden ferry carrying royal possessions belonging to King Charles I, sank in Scotland's Firth of Forth in 1633.
Rich NapolitanoHOST
According to historical accounts, the vessel was carrying an enormous quantity of royal goods when it went down in a storm.
Rich NapolitanoHOST
Around 33 of the 35 people aboard reportedly died.
Gretel le MaîtreHOST
North of the River Humber lay the settlements of a people of Anglian race who, from their geographical position, were called Northumbrians.
Gretel le MaîtreHOST
these settlements formed two kingdoms one to the south which early in the seventh century answered to our present yorkshire being called dara the other extending along the seaboard from the tees to the firth of forth Of Dara and its king Ela, or Ela, we have already heard in the story of Gregory and the English slave boys.
Gretel le MaîtreHOST
On Ela's death in 588, the Benetian king, Ethelric, made himself master of Dara and drove out Ela's infant son, Edwine, or Edwin.
Gretel le MaîtreHOST
He was succeeded by his son, Ethelfrith.
Gretel le MaîtreHOST
a powerful king who ruled over the whole of Northumbria from the Humber to the Firth of Forth, and in one of his many successful wars overthrew the Britons at Chester, where the monks of Bangor were massacred.
Gretel le MaîtreHOST
This is all the stuff that I've become really interested in recently, of course.
Gretel le MaîtreHOST
Edwin was about three years old when he left Daera, for he was born in 585.
Alexander McCall SmithHOST
Bruce's father worked for a company that dealt in barley and other grains.
Alexander McCall SmithHOST
They lived in a house in Craiglockhart, from the garden of which there was a view over the city and across to the Firth of Forth and to Fife.
Alexander McCall SmithHOST
In summer, the hills of Fife bore patches of yellow made by ripening crops.
Alexander McCall SmithHOST
At other times, these hills were pale blue, washed by shifting veils of rain.
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