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Scotland Outdoors

An electrical wizard, the airships of north east Scotland and the ice mushrooms of Patagonia

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7709 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2021

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

An electrical wizard, the airships of north east Scotland and the arrival of Spring

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, an incredible acts of resistance and courage.

0:26.3

She was a born soldier.

0:27.4

She's a freedom fighter in its widest sense.

0:29.9

The brand new series of History's secret heroes.

0:32.8

Listen first on BBC Sounds.

0:36.2

The Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.

0:45.1

Hello and thanks very much for downloading this.

0:47.1

I'm Mark Stephen.

0:48.2

We build the Scotland Outdoors podcast out of the live program we do for BBC Radio Scotland called Out of Doors.

0:54.8

And this week there was only really one thing we could talk about.

0:57.6

The unmistakable arrival of spring.

1:02.3

Give you a quick word picture.

1:04.6

Midstock at Road, there's a church.

1:06.8

Now, all four square, granite built, big spire going up in the sky.

1:11.6

There's just a hint of light in the sky.

1:13.6

So the sky is sort of sapphire blue, quite really dark blue.

1:17.6

And then off to the ridge of the church, there's just a line of seagulls.

1:22.6

They were making a racket a second ago.

1:24.6

Needless to say, because the program started, they've gone quiet now.

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