Mobile library vans are a lifeline to many people in rural areas and elderly people too.  Charlie Simpson from Aberdeenshire drives his beloved van around the Huntly area and keeps his customers thoroughly amused, as well as informed!  Broadcast on The Book Café on BBC Radio Scotland, 2008.

Library Van - BBC Radio Scotland - It's witty, couthy and amusing, I promise!

It's not everyday you see a traditional red London bus transformed into an art gallery chugging along the roads. And there's not just one!  All aboard as we hear from a Corporate Executive turned Red Art Bus Curator. Broadcast on The Culture Café on BBC Radio Scotland, 2008.

London Red Art Bus - BBC Radio Scotland - An intriguing chap!

Camouflage as fashion, camouflage as disguise. This radio feature focusses primarily on its use in modern day fashion, while a soldier gives his explains more about the practical uses of camouflage. Broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland - The Culture Café, 2008.

Camouflage as Couture - BBC Radio Scotland - Disguise from High-End to Ground Level.

Westhill started as a small country village just north of Aberdeen and developed extensively during the late 70s oil boom and has continued growing to this day as a town in its own right. Listen to the present day story.  

Broadcast on BBC Aberdeen News, 2008.

Oil Boom Town's 40th Birthday - BBC Radio Scotland - Hear the couthy Westhill townsfolk!

Two artists curated By-Catch - an exhibition focussed mainly on untargetted fish that are thrown back into the sea.  Looks at the of North Sea fishing in Scotland and a new style of the old skool fish 'n' chip newsprint wrapping. 

Broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland - The Culture Café, 2008.

By-Catch - BBC Radio Scotland - a truly international piece-art meets politics and chip suppers..

A woman talks about how she granted the wish of her best friend to have an eco burial where he was buried in a casket in the Cairngorms National Park after dying in a place crash.

Broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland -  The Culture Café, 2007

Eco Burial - BBC Radio Scotland - CLICK 21:43 MINS IN.  A poignant, atmospheric feature.

Sample of me co-presenting BBC Scotland's 'Good Evening Shetland' from 0.42'-9.30'.  Then from 18:38'-23.23' you'll hear my lively news feature about the groundbreaking opening of the breakwater pier opening up communities across Fetlar, Shetland.
This was a truly horrible 3 month placement I was forced against my will to do and awful colleagues and unfriendly folk there were abysmal. Vile. But yet I remained pleasant, hard-working and falsely happy.  Thank goodness for the swimming centre and roller skating.  I advise anyone to never ever go there.   Stop at Orkney which is way more beautiful in every sense!

GES 1

BBC 'Good Evening Shetland' Bulletin: I read 0.42'-9.30' + hear my Feature+vox: 18.38'-23.23'.

I chatted with scuba divers in Boddam Quarry near Peterhead in North-east Scotland about what enticed them to enter the freezing loch, plus what they saw and felt deep down below.

Scuba Diving in Boddam Quarry for BBC Radio Scotland's Out of Doors programme. Listen from 29:42'

Four music mad Aberdonian characters with completely different accents tell me about which heroes gave them a reason to exist when growing up. This was for The Culture Cafe which focused on the theme of heroes.   "If you enjoy adapting the way you look, I think that's exactly what you should do, otherwsie how are you going to feel comfortable any other way."  Dawn Williams.

Musical Icons- Aberdonian groovers reveal their heroes for BBC Radio Scotland's Culture Cafe.

I spoke to UK leading taxidermist, George Jamieson about his fascinating career as he showed me his shed and studio based in Cramond, north Edinburgh.

Top UK Taxidermist feature deemed too morbid for Radio Scotland, so it rests in peace here!

I am a remote radio specific former Producer and Broadcast Journalist based in Berlin. Tune into just a handful of my self-produced freelance BBC Radio Scotland feature packages about all things arts and cultural across the North-east, Highlands of Scotland and the central belt too.

I come from Aberdeen and also spent many years living in Edinburgh, with some stints in Dundee, Glasgow, Orkney and Shetland.

My aim?  To make sure they're a great listen, informative, inciteful, passionate, entertaining  and never boring.  Laden with BBC values, in fact!   Enjoy :)

Lesley H

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