The early years - the life & natural world of Kingston on Spey
12/29/21 • 57 min
In this episode, Iain Craigie remembers his early life - in the 1940s and ‘50s in a little North Eastern Scottish village, Kingston-on-Spey. The rich conversation with his daughter, Jane Craigie, covers a young boy’s relationships with nature, the long-lost shopkeepers and the ebb and flow, and immense freedom of living in a coastal village at the end, and immediately after World War II. If you love conversation, our natural environment and Scotland, we hope that you’ll enjoy this episode.
In this episode, Iain Craigie remembers his early life - in the 1940s and ‘50s in a little North Eastern Scottish village, Kingston-on-Spey. The rich conversation with his daughter, Jane Craigie, covers a young boy’s relationships with nature, the long-lost shopkeepers and the ebb and flow, and immense freedom of living in a coastal village at the end, and immediately after World War II. If you love conversation, our natural environment and Scotland, we hope that you’ll enjoy this episode.
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The Spy Who Raised Me Podcast - The early years - the life & natural world of Kingston on Spey
Transcript
Welcome to the spy. You raised me podcast conversations between a daughter and her father. Yes, you've guessed it was a spy. My name is Jane Craigie and I'm here with my dad, Ian Craigie. We're recording this on, zoom in, in another wave of the COVID roller coaster, or corona Coast coaster as people call it.
UnknownHow are you dad? Yeah, good. Jan, it's Corona. Haven't had that roller? Coaster? Coaster?
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