Springwatch
A working lunch today with Tim Scoones, the Series Producer of ´óÏó´«Ã½ 2's Springwatch programme who has flown up from Bristol to tell us how Scotland can be involved. There are all sorts of events being planned in tandem with the programme, including a family day at Chatelherault Country Park in Hamilton on June 4th.
There are six of us at the meeting which takes place in my office with lunch consisting of filled rolls and fruit kebabs. Just before they arrive I realise that we've only ordered enough food for five people, so I pretend that I've already eaten and watch hungrily as everyone else stuffs their faces.
Springwatch sounds like a lot of fun and, this year, there's going to be special output from Shetland. I asked Tim why they had chosen that location and he told me that thought it was one of the most beautiful and interesting landscapes in the British Isles.
My next meeting is with Gloria Abramoff - an old friend - who is now working with Children in Need and is touring the U.K. to talk about the real work of the charity and the kind of young people it sets out to help. She talks powerfully about teenage runaways and child prostiution and it dawns on me that most people don't know much about Children in Need beyond Pudsey Bear and Terry Wogan. I agree that Radio Scotland can do more to tell listeners about the people using the Children in Need money to make a real difference to the lives of children.
