River Forth
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Sep 11, 2026
Connor HalleyHOST
On this day in 1297, it was the Battle of Stirling Bridge.
Connor HalleyHOST
Scottish rebel William Wallace defeats the English near Stirling on the River Forth.
Connor HalleyHOST
In honor of that and the movie Braveheart, what is your favorite movie based off a real person or story?
Jason GregorHOST
Oh, God.
Owen InnesHOST
I welcome you to the Battle of Stirling Bridge.
Owen InnesHOST
On the 11th of September 1297, on the banks of the River Forth, one of the most famous victories in Scottish history took place.
Owen InnesHOST
William Wallace was there, but so too was another man whose name deserves to be better remembered every bit as much.
Owen InnesHOST
Andrew Murray.
Owen InnesHOST
And it is even to this day still difficult to overstate how important Stirling was.
Owen InnesHOST
For centuries, Stirling had been seen as the gateway between the Scottish Highlands and the Scottish Lowlands.
Owen InnesHOST
Control the crossing of the river forth and you controlled one of the main routes through the country.
Owen InnesHOST
And there was a bridge, a narrow wooden bridge.
Stuart McHardyGUEST
I was aware of, but then, it's like the, you know, as I say, it was almost like an epiphany.
Stuart McHardyGUEST
If you look north from Edinburgh to Fife, which is on the far side of the River Forth, there are two hills called the Lomond Hills.
Stuart McHardyGUEST
Now, the name Lomond really is a reference to the fact that they used to have fires lit on them.
Stuart McHardyGUEST
So they were used for communal rituals, the
Stuart McHardyGUEST
I was aware of, but then, it's like the, you know, as I say, it was almost like an epiphany.
Stuart McHardyGUEST
If you look north from Edinburgh to Fife, which is on the far side of the River Forth, there are two hills called the Lomond Hills.
Stuart McHardyGUEST
Now, the name Lomond really is a reference to the fact that they used to have fires lit on them.
Stuart McHardyGUEST
So they were used for communal rituals, the
Garry MacKenzieGUEST
Yeah, I mean, I hadn't really picked up on that word in Barry Lopez.
Garry MacKenzieGUEST
I think that's kind of a journey I went on writing Firth in the way that I wanted to start writing about the Firth of Forth, the estuary of the River Forth, the fishing history of the communities that were based on the edge of the Forth.
Garry MacKenzieGUEST
the ecology of the river, and quite early on realised that you can't really write about the world's watercourses in a blithely positive way in the 2020s.
Garry MacKenzieGUEST
As the book goes on, it maybe gets increasingly darker in terms of some of the pressing issues that are there and those sit uncomfortably I think alongside the fact that you still can look out at the Firth of the Forest and think this is beautiful and all the rest and that's probably the same in lots of the natural world that we've got these tensions are kind of longing for a kind of romantic closeness or a sublime experience that fits really and I don't really want to belittle that, it's very easy to belittle that in a kind of intellectual culture But how can that exist alongside other kind of, you know, quite informed and anxious worries about really kind of pressing issues? I think that's something the book's exploring.
1 HR 34 MINS LATER
Garry MacKenzieGUEST
And I suppose we could say, if you think global warming is going to be a catastrophe for humankind, then whoever is still alive at the next ice age is going to have a tough time as well.
Garry MacKenzieGUEST
Yeah, and I find that fascinating.
Garry MacKenzieGUEST
I find it fascinating, just to take us back to glaciers, the kind of sublime of that, imagining the River Forth covered in ice, you know, is almost impossible to imagine, but, you know, is recent, very recent in the geological
Paul MalgratiHOST
record.
Stuart McHardyGUEST
well, the one that kind of triggered me I was aware of, but then it's like, as I say, it was almost like an epiphany.
Stuart McHardyGUEST
If you look north from Edinburgh to Fife, which is on the far side of the River Forth, there are two hills called the Lomond Hills.
Stuart McHardyGUEST
Now, the name Lomond really is a reference to the fact that they used to have fires lit on them.
Stuart McHardyGUEST
So they were used for communal rituals, the fire hills.
Stuart McCartyGUEST
Well, the one that kind of triggered me I was aware of, but then it's like, as I say, it was almost like an epiphany.
Stuart McCartyGUEST
If you look north from Edinburgh to Fife, which is on the far side of the River Forth, there are two hills called the Lomond Hills.
Stuart McCartyGUEST
Now, the name Lomond really is a reference to the fact that they used to have fires lit on them.
Stuart McCartyGUEST
So they were used for communal rituals, the fire hills.
Richard BainesCORRESPONDENT
Scotland also has vast renewable energy reserves, but most of the planned sites have attracted protests.
Richard BainesCORRESPONDENT
Hands off our countryside! Here at Octotool in Fife, just across the River Forth from Edinburgh, a planned 600 megawatt site called Cato by the developers would be one of the biggest AI data centres in the world.
speaker_24GUEST
We're not just going to sit back and do nothing.
speaker_24GUEST
We don't want it here.
Graham ChalmersHOST
was near a roundabout.
Graham ChalmersHOST
next to a petrol station, next to a main road which crossed the main bridge on the River Forth just before you enter the Kingdom of Fife at Kincardine.
Graham ChalmersHOST
So we didn't really need an alarm clock because you could tell what time of the morning it was by the weight of traffic, noise coming through your hotel room.
Graham ChalmersHOST
We did have one
Mark BarnettGUEST
And that might be possibly due to the climate or possibly due to its geographical structure.
Mark BarnettGUEST
Because Scotland, certainly north of the River Forth, it's, you know, it's basically glens and valleys and, you know, lots of sort of, you know, quite hard for things to move, move around.
Cameron JackHOST
So, I mean, I guess I have like some idea to this, but just so that we can understand a little bit further, you're saying Apis mm, like that's Apis mellifera mellifera.
Cameron JackHOST
And so what's like the logic and like the reasoning, why would we want to preserve Apis mellifera mellifera populations in the UK?
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