Pentland Hills
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Sep 16, 2026
Alan MapstoneNARRATOR
The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies by John Buchan.
Alan MapstoneNARRATOR
From the Pentlands Looking North and South.
Alan MapstoneNARRATOR
Around my feet the clouds are drawn In the cold mystery of the dawn.
Alan MapstoneNARRATOR
No breezes cheer, no guests intrude My mossy, mist-clad solitude.
MarianneNARRATOR
It is another hospital.
MarianneNARRATOR
In his way along Lauriston, within a stone cast of him, his eye catches the back of a large and spacious edifice which looks beautifully out on the meadows, the low-braid hills, and the distant Pentlands.
MarianneNARRATOR
It is another hospital.
MarianneNARRATOR
A few turns of the wheel, and before him, within a fine park, or rather ornamental garden, stands the finest structure of our town, a masterpiece of Ignog Jones, with a princely revenue of £15,000 a year.
John CassidyHOST
just not just fighting the fight but doing quite incredible things as well and it I think the door's open for a future episode online to speak about that.
John CassidyHOST
I spoke to a listener to the podcast, a lad named Elliot at the Pentlands, maybe six weeks ago.
John CassidyHOST
he contracted Lyme disease last year and, but he's, he's just getting back to feeling just kind of all right.
John CassidyHOST
So for Elliot to hear what you've just said, I think it'd be really reassuring as well for other people too, but let's focus what we're on race across Scotland.
Alan MapstoneNARRATOR
The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies by John Buchan.
Alan MapstoneNARRATOR
From the Pentlands Looking North and South.
Alan MapstoneNARRATOR
Around my feet the clouds are drawn In the cold mystery of the dawn: No breezes cheer, no guests intrude My mossy mist-clad solitude; When sudden down the steeps of sky Flames a long lightning wind, on high The steel-blue arch shines clear and far In the Lowlands where cattle are, Towns smoke, and swift a haze agleam The firth lies like a frozen stream Reddening with morn.
Alan MapstoneNARRATOR
Tall spires of ships Like thorns about the harbour's lips Now shake faint canvas, now asleep Their salt uneasy slumbers keep, While golden grey o'er kirk and wall Day wakes in the ancient capital.
Sue NelsonHOST
Well, we've now swapped the open peatlands for a small woodland at Glencourse, just a few kilometres up the road.
Sue NelsonHOST
And unlike the peatland, which was quite a vast expanse with the Pentland Hills in the distance, this one I feel quite claustrophobic because we're surrounded by pretty young, I would say, from the thickness of the trunk, mostly silver birch.
Alice HopeHOST
And what I will say is compared to the other site, a lot more of those famous Scottish midges.
Alice HopeHOST
We're very grateful for our head nets right now.
Andreas MaszczykGUEST
It's very easy to get from A to B, a lot of greenery.
Andreas MaszczykGUEST
You have the beaches, you have a little bit of Pentland Hills in the south.
Andreas MaszczykGUEST
Everything what you really want is there.
Andreas MaszczykGUEST
After many years to work for other companies, I thought, you know what, the corporate world, I learned enough, which I'm quite lucky to work to learn everything because the beautiful thing if you work in bigger hotels, you learn every single apartment if it's from the kitchen porter over the housekeeping over reception over the restaurants over functions bean waiter do everything and actually the first time ever from the intercontinental first shift was a night porter
David GillenGUEST
built from there.
David GillenGUEST
You know, I started just getting a map and I'd head up, you know, the Pentland Hills.
David GillenGUEST
We have these hills just outside Edinburgh called the Pentland Hills.
David GillenGUEST
Beautiful.
David GillenGUEST
And so I just went and bought a map because I used to spend, I was a fisherman, I was at sea.
Kate RudekNARRATOR
Up there on the gusty heights of Edinburgh, no one ever inquires the time at one o'clock in the afternoon.
Kate RudekNARRATOR
Precisely at the second, a ball flutters on the top of the Nelson Flagstaff on Calton Hill, and a cannon booms from a battery at Castle Rock, and watches are then set by merchants all over town, by shepherds on the shaggy Pentland Hills, and sailors on the ships in the lee of Leith.
Kate RudekNARRATOR
And one o'clock is the very best time Edinburgh could have fixed upon to encourage her people to look up and about and behold her at her finest.
Kate RudekNARRATOR
It is a luncheon hour, and when the sun is kindly, old Reekie is just about as garish and stimulating as it is possible for a town of such dignified traditions and questionable climate ever to become.
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Kate RudekNARRATOR
It is not a visit it is an initiation.
Kate RudekNARRATOR
Quite worthy of this savage stronghold is the inspiring outlook from its parapets over hills and rivers and storied glens.
Kate RudekNARRATOR
One turns impatiently from Mons Meg which may have been a big gun in some past day of little ones to gaze afar over the carse of Stirling and the trailing silver links of the Forth to where the snow shines in the clefts of Ben Leedy or out over the Pentland Hills where the sweet singers awaited the judgment.
Kate RudekNARRATOR
The sportsman will think of the grouse shooting at Loch Erin.
Owen InnesHOST
He had very little sympathy for those who had taken up arms.
Owen InnesHOST
The two forces finally met on the afternoon of the 28th of November, 1666, at Rullian Green, on the slopes of the Pentland Hills, a few miles southwest of Edinburgh.
Owen InnesHOST
Today, the battle is often remembered simply as the Battle of Pentland.
Owen InnesHOST
The battlefield itself was small, this was no Bannockburn or Culloden, and fewer than 3,000 men took part altogether, yet its significance far outweighed its size.
Allen MapstoneNARRATOR
The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies by John Buchan.
Allen MapstoneNARRATOR
From the Pentlands Looking North and South.
Allen MapstoneNARRATOR
Around my feet the clouds are drawn In the cold mystery of the dawn.
Allen MapstoneNARRATOR
No breezes cheer, no guests intrude My mossy, mist-clad solitude.
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