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Scotland Outdoors

Cultybraggan Camp Development

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Science, Society & Culture, Nature

4.7756 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2019

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Mark and Euan explore the former PoW camp at Cultybraggan which is now community owned.

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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

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0:17.6

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0:22.0

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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.

0:35.8

Hello and thank you very much for downloading the Scotland Outdoors podcast.

0:39.5

I'm Mark Stephen, he's you and Macalraith.

0:41.7

And right now we're standing in an orchard.

0:44.0

I mean, it's absolutely laden with apples.

0:46.9

We're at Culte-Bragon, ex-prisoner War Camp,

0:49.9

ex-army camp, and it's a place that has transformed itself

0:54.0

from what was a bit of a desert really

0:57.0

into a place full of heritage full of potential businesses and growing you know as he said

1:03.0

trees dripping with apples is a real mix of different things it's a massive natural amphitheatre

1:10.6

this place.

1:11.2

Where the camp is is flat ground, but we're surrounded by hills, mature trees over there.

1:15.3

While you were speaking, there was a buzzard just wheeling above those trees.

1:20.0

This is something that was taken over by the community back in 2007.

1:24.4

It was a community asset transfer.

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