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🗓️ 19 June 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Helen Needham goes for a walk in Aberfeldy with writer Linda Cracknell to discuss the new edition of her book 'Doubling Back'.
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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. |
0:35.6 | This Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland. |
0:45.5 | Hello and thanks very much for choosing to listen to this podcast. I'm Helen Needham. |
0:50.9 | In this edition, I go for a walk in Aberfeldy with the writer Linda Kraknell. |
0:56.5 | Linda's a writer of both fiction and nonfiction which is very rooted in place. |
1:02.0 | In fact it's 10 years since she first published her seminal book Doubling Back, |
1:07.1 | which features accounts of specific walks she's taken all over the world. |
1:11.9 | When doubling back was first published in 2014, there weren't so many women writing in this genre of what you might call New Nature writing. |
1:21.0 | Now there are so many different voices occupying this space. |
1:25.3 | A new edition of the book has recently been released containing an extra |
1:29.4 | chapter centred on a solo trip to the flow country in the north of Scotland. As we wandered close |
1:36.5 | to the River Taye, we discussed walking alone and in groups, the old ways and how we can go about |
1:42.8 | engaging our senses in accessing our imaginations. |
1:47.8 | Quite often if I've got a day at the desk, I'll have my breakfast and then just come down, |
1:52.4 | the moness burn here on our right, and then over the Tay on what we call the bendy bridge, |
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