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Each month Donna Smith, Chief Executive of the Scottish Crofting Federation and Eilidh Ross, Principal Consultant at Camus Consulting, will talk to guests about their connection to crofting, their views about the future of the crofting system and the proposed legal reforms to crofting legislation.2025 Ciencias Sociales
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  • Episode 9 - Sir Crispin Agnew of Lochnaw Bt KC

    Episode 9 - Sir Crispin Agnew of Lochnaw Bt KC
    Jan 17 2026

    Sir Crispin is currently an Honorary Research Fellow, University of Dundee Law Department and a legal convenor of the Mental Health Tribunal for Scotland and has had a long and distinguished career in law with a keen interest in crofting and land reform.

    He was in practise as an advocate from 1982 to 2020 and was appointed a Queens Counsel in 1995. From the start of his career, he specialised in rural property law with a particular interest in agricultural and crofting law.

    Sir Crispin represented landlords and tenants in the Land Court under the Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Acts 1991 & 2003 and was also involved in crofting cases in the Land Court and authored Crofting Law (2000) T & T Clark, also holding the role of Chair of the Crofting Law Group for many years. He was on the Scottish Land Commission advice panel on land reform and other land related issues until 2024.

    Outside of his professional and voluntary work nowadays, his main interests now are sailing (I have a small boat on the Forth) and mountain biking combined with some hill walking.
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  • Episode 8 - Agnes Rennie

    Episode 8 - Agnes Rennie
    Nov 24 2025
    Together with Frank, Agnes lives and works on the family croft in the village of Galson. This croft, along with another they now tenant, was allotted to her grandparents when Galson was resettled in 1924 following the 1919 Land Settlement Act. (Galson had been cleared in 1863 by James Matheson, drug lord extraordinaire and was empty of people apart from the tenant farmer and his two shepherds). They still have a small flock of sheep, hens and two ponies and Agnes is a member of the Grazings committee, having served as Chair in the past. They have had a polytunnel for over 20 years and this year added a polycrub to the "covered garden". Agnes has had a wide and varied career both professional and voluntary which has included Community Cooperative Development Officer with HIDB, manager of what was at the time the recently established Gaelic publishing company Acair, the Board of Comann Eachdaidh Nis, the first woman to sit on the Crofters Commission, the board of Community Land Scotland and in 2005 was elected to the Board of the newly established UOG (Galson Estate Trust) of which she is currently the chair. Agnes also occasionally presents Gaelic radio programmes and does voice overs for Gaelic language documentaries, having recently done a fascinating series of six programmes about female spies from WW2. Music credit: Peatbog Faeries
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    59 m
  • Episode 7 - Sally Reynolds

    Episode 7 - Sally Reynolds
    Oct 17 2025

    In this episode we discuss community owned crofting estates amongst other things with Sally Reynolds.

    Sally is a crofter from the Isle of Lewis and she currently leads Community Land Scotland's new Natural Capital Community Partnerships project. Sally's background includes experience working within the crofting sector with strong experience in community engagement and development.

    Sally previously worked as an Agricultural Consultant with SAC Consulting and as Development Manager with community landowner Urras Oighreachd Chàrlabhaigh (Carloway Estate Trust). Sally's interest and passion for Land Reform led her to be one of the first Scottish Land Commissioners.

    Music credit: Peatbog Faeries
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    42 m
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