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Scotland Outdoors

A Royal Deeside special with Mark Stephen and Helen Needham.

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7709 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2018

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Climbing Lochnagar, gliding, cycling, running at Balmoral estate and a hearty breakfast.

Transcript

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0:00.0

He tells her that she will be sent to France as a secret agent, and if she's caught, she's going to be shot.

0:09.3

I'm Helen Obalam Carter, and this is history's secret heroes, where I shine a light on extraordinary stories from World War II.

0:17.6

What they wanted was someone to get themselves arrested and sent to Auschwitz.

0:22.0

Tales of deception and incredible acts of resistance and courage. She was a born soldier.

0:27.4

She's a freedom fighter in its widest sense. The brand new series of history's secret heroes.

0:32.8

Listen first on BBC Salons.

0:36.8

Hello and thanks for downloading the Scotland Outdoors podcast.

0:40.3

In this bonus midweek edition, we're going to bring you edited highlights for a programme we broadcast back in April 2016 from the village of Ballata and Royal D-Side.

0:50.6

Now one of the big attractions for many tourists of the area is its royal connections.

0:55.0

The Queen's Scottish Retreat, Balmoral, is just a few miles upstream.

0:59.0

If you look at a lot of the shops in Ballata, they've got royal warrant signs over the door.

1:03.0

You buy appointment to, that kind of thing.

1:05.0

So in the week of the wedding of Prince Harry and Megan Markle, we thought we revisited.

1:10.0

Back in April 2016, it was just four months after what was called the muckle muckle spate,

1:15.7

the big, big flood, and it devastated much of the village.

1:19.1

It destroyed shops, houses, and pretty well wrecked the golf course.

1:22.5

So at that time, the village was really trying to get back on its feet.

1:27.1

Helen Needham and I positioned ourselves

1:28.9

in the main square early on Saturday morning and used it as a hub for exploring Balleter and its

1:34.4

surroundings. Now angling for salmon is a key part of the local economy and the River Dee attracts

1:40.9

people from all over the world. I met up with identical twin gillies on the Dee, Alistair and William Peake,

1:47.0

and asked them, look, what is it that really characterises fishing on this river?

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