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Winter Light on Calton Hill

Winter Light on Calton Hill

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 Above Edinburgh's east end rises a hill of monuments, unfinished temples, buried radicals, and the best winter light in Scotland. Climb Calton Hill with us from the three o'clock gloom to the blue hour — past the time ball, the observatory keepers, the burial ground poets, the playback of Hogmanay fires — and come back down with twenty-nine small stories in your pocket.

Chapters:
0:00 The Climb at Three
2:45 The Unfinished Parthenon
5:49 Nelson Tower and the Time Ball
8:43 The Observatory and the Stars
11:59 Dugald Stewart Watching South
14:46 The Cannon That Fires at One
18:08 The Bridewell and the Jail
21:47 Festivals on the Summit
25:48 The View Toward the Forth
29:45 The Old Calton Burial Ground
35:30 Burns Monument and the Poet Corner
41:25 The Playfair Observatory and Its Keepers
46:55 The Signal Mast and the Shipping News
52:32 Gorse, Crag, and the Hill Wildlife
58:05 The Panorama Painters of the Hill
63:13 Hogmanay Fires Above the City
68:59 The Tunnels Under the Hill
74:09 The Dawn Walkers Club
79:30 The Stonemasons Who Tend the Monuments
84:52 The Kite Flyers of March
89:47 The Wedding Parties at the Columns
94:16 The Lamplighter Twilight Rounds
98:16 The Snow Days and Sledges
102:41 The Plaques and Their Stories
106:21 The Night Bus Home
110:34 The Carol Singers at Christmas
114:25 The Spring Snowdrops Below the Crags
118:30 The Last Light on the Columns
120:26 Descending in the Blue Hour

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