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  Saturday

  06:30-08:00

  Radio Scotland

  About Out Of Doors

  From hills to hacking, skiing to skuas, Scotland's great out of doors is brought to you live by Mark and the team.

  Visit the Out of Doors pages to listen to the most recent show.

Mark did Journeys of Faith to Ethiopia, India and Japan and he also did a whole series of programmes from Malawi. He's done short series on diving, National Service, William Wallace, Bonnie Prince Charlie and poisonous snails.

Mark still get a real buzz out of what he does - it's great fun, but it's not, as a lot of people suppose about "speaking". The biggest part of his job is listening and it's almost always a pleasure. Everybody and he means everybody has a story to tell. All he has to do is shut up long enough for them to tell it.

Mark and his wife Jean live on a smallholding in rural Aberdeenshire with their two daughters Rebecca and Jessica, three horses, three cats and a labradoodle (posh mongrel) Abby. The only male company he has, out of the entire lot, is the Ginger cat, and it hates him.

His ambition is to go to Antartica and/or own a Tiger Moth biplane.