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Euan hears about the campaign for Scotland to have its own environmental protection act.

Mark speaks to gardening presenter Jim McColl as he hangs up his trowel and retires from The Beechgrove Garden after more than 40 years.

After a career in the oil industry Ian Garden wanted a change of lifestyle and found himself on a small holding near Methlick in Aberdeenshire. A decade later he and his family are the proud owner of a herd of Boer Goats. Euan went to find out all about them.

In order to be ready for Halloween, April is when pumpkins are planted. Mark stumbles across a patch near Udny in Aberdeenshire and hears about why they are much more than a novelty vegetable.

Euan is in the depths of the National Museum of Scotland learning more about mineralogist Matthew Heddle and why he鈥檚 such an important figure.

Built in the 1780s, Stanley Mills in Perthshire was adapted several times before finally closing as a working mill in the 1980s. It鈥檚 an excellent example of a building from the industrial revolution and now a successful visitor attraction as Mark found out when he had a tour.

Euan finds out about the location of the least popular OS map which is in the Highlands.

Recently a carved stone ball was discovered by a farmer on land in Sheriffmuir in Perthshire. It鈥檚 around 4,000 years old but no one is quite sure what it was used for. Mark goes to see where it was found and hear more about its importance.

The RSPB has released a single featuring birdsong to highlight the loss of our native bird species. We hear a little bit from it and find out how it came about.

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