BBC Radio Scotland highlights - June 2011

Merry Christmas from everyone here at BBC Radio Scotland!

June on BBC Radio Scotland saw the Men Like Us Season, more Family Legends, the BBC Radio Scotland Young Jazz Musician of the Year final and coverage of Gardening Scotland as well as some great interviews and features...

The Men Like Us season took a closer look at what it is to be a Scottish male, in 2011. The theme was covered throughout the week on our regular shows as well as some special programmes which we covered on the blog: Edi Stark presented a feature on Men Behind the Wheel, and in Who Shrunk the Guys Jim Spence followed football fans across Scotland as they attempt to lost weight.

We published a few more of the Family Legends competition entries on the blog including Nellie's Special Chittering Bite, by Elaine Renton and Cobra, by Arthur Clark.

Theresa Talbot and the Beechgrove Potting Shed team braved the freezing June temperatures to cover Gardening Scotland from Ingleston. I popped along too on the Saturday and took some photographs of the amazing flower displays on offer.

MacAulay and Co's Richard Cadey was also bitten by the gardening bug, and on his weekly blog wrote about his various attempts to fight back against the garden slug.

The BBC Radio Scotland Young Jazz Musician of the Year final took place at the Old Fruitmarket and was won by 19 year-old Ruaridh Pattison from Kinross.

..and if you're a fan of jazz then you're sure to find plenty to enjoy at the Stephen Duffy Music Collection.

Right at the beginning of June, Vic Galloway broadcast an Alt-Folk special and Nick Dempsey published a selection of related videos on the blog by Emma Pollock and King Creosote, Admiral Fallow and Meursault.

Ricky Ross popped across to the Clyde Auditorium to interview Canadian songstress kd lang and also broadcast his exclusive Nashville interview and session with Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings ahead of their long-awaited new album "The Harrow and The Harvest".

Shereen interviewed Dr Victoria Martin, one of a number of Edinburgh University scientists who are searching for the answers to the universe at CERN, home of the Large Hadron Collider, and also a young Canadian journalist called Jay Bahadur who decided to make a name for himself by taking off to Somalia and entering the dangerous world of Somali pirates.

Finally, the Kitchen Cafe gave us some more gorgeous recipes to download and keep including Dave Aspin's luxury fish pie, Lady Claire MacDonald's strawberry and elderflower jelly and her herb crepes with smoked salmon and cucumber.