Water of Leith
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Search complete. 15 mentions across 6 episodes found for "Water of Leith".
Sep 26, 2026
Mark StephenHOST
bucketThis is Anonymous saying, [laughs] "Shell grotto.
Mark StephenHOST
There are two in Craiglockhart, down on the path up or down to the Waters of Leith.
Mark StephenHOST
Also, a beautiful newish one on, in the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh."
Rachel StewartHOST
Ah.
Anna MacleodGUEST
Two years ago, and that was on foot of having a show in Stornoway in the Isle of Lewis, which was the result of the landscape work.
Anna MacleodGUEST
So my proposal to the Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop for the residency there was that I wanted to do a project around the Water of Leith.
Anna MacleodGUEST
The Water of Leith is the river that runs through the city of Edinburgh.
Anna MacleodGUEST
And when I was a child growing up in Edinburgh, it was a running sewer.
Anna MacleodGUEST
We were told not to play in it.
Anna MacleodGUEST
It was poisonous.
Anna MacleodGUEST
Even in the 1960s, there was a typhoid outbreak.
Anna MacleodGUEST
For 20-odd years, the Water of Leith Community Trust had been working tirelessly to advocate for cleaning up the river.
TammyHOST
I did a walk with, I have some distant cousins that are visiting from Canada.
TammyHOST
And yesterday I took them all the way into Stockbridge from here on the beautiful Water of Leith walk.
TammyHOST
And it was just stunning.
TammyHOST
It was so beautiful.
James WoodHOST
"You will end up as a girl guide leader in a suburb like Corstorphine," she said warningly to Eunice, who was in fact secretly attracted to this idea and who lived in Corstorphine.
James WoodHOST
Later in the book, Jenny, uh, is walking in the woods beside a little burn called the Water of Leith and comes upon a, a flasher.
James WoodHOST
But a flasher is how you and I would describe, uh, a man, you know, half-naked i- in the woods.
James WoodHOST
Muriel Spark much more jauntily describes it as a man joyfully exposing himself beside the Water of Leith.
James WoodHOST
Now, there are very few nowadays you'd never get away with putting that jaunty adverb joyfully, um, into a description of what we all think of nowadays as a sort of traumatizing experience.
James WoodHOST
The young girl sees, sees a, a, a naked penis.
James WoodHOST
Um, but for Spark, everything exists for tart satire in a way, but also for c- for complexity.
James WoodHOST
Why shouldn't it be, as well as slightly traumatizing, deeply, um, wonderful for Jenny and Sandy, who make a whole story about this and are, are enamored of the female police officer who comes to take their statement? It's an adventure, hence a man joyfully exposing himself beside the Water of Leith.
James WoodHOST
"You will end up as a girl guide leader in a suburb like Corstorphine," she said warningly to Eunice, who was in fact secretly attracted to this idea and who lived in Corstorphine.
James WoodHOST
Later in the book, Jenny, uh, is walking in the woods beside a little burn called the Water of Leith and comes upon a, a flasher.
James WoodHOST
But [laughs] a flasher is how you and I would describe, uh, a man, you know, half naked i-in the woods.
James WoodHOST
Muriel Spark much more jauntily describes it as a man joyfully exposing himself beside the Water of Leith.
James WoodHOST
Now, there are very few nowadays you'd never get away with putting that jaunty adverb joyfully, um, into a description of what we all think of nowadays as a sort of traumatizing experience.
James WoodHOST
The young girl sees, sees a, a, a naked penis.
James WoodHOST
Um, but for Spark, everything exists for tart satire in a way, but also for c-for complexity.
James WoodHOST
Why shouldn't it be, as well as slightly traumatizing, deeply, um, wonderful for Jenny and Sandy, who make a whole story about this and are enamored of the female police officer who comes to take their statement? It's an adventure, hence a man joyfully exposing himself beside the Water of Leith.
Marie-Amélie VietteGUEST
Oh, that is so hard.
Marie-Amélie VietteGUEST
I guess one of the many is the Water of Leith, and there's one particular bit where it's by St. Ben's Well, and you can reach right down to the rocks and just be there, and at the same time feel people go by and be in community, enjoying this beautiful space and really being nourished by it.
Angela CaseyHOST
It is good.
Angela CaseyHOST
And Tom, I'm going to ask you now, what does being in the outdoors mean for you?