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Scotland Outdoors

Curlew Conservationist Roger Morgan-Grenville

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7709 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Mark Stephen presents the Scotland Outdoors podcast

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

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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

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0:32.8

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0:36.2

The Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.

0:45.4

Hello and thanks very much for choosing to listen to this.

0:48.1

I'm Mark Stephen and my guest today is Roger Morgan Grenville.

0:52.8

Now Roger is a man with quite a history. He's a former soldier.

0:56.2

He's the author of a number of books on subjects from the game of cricket to the mank, sheer water.

1:00.9

At the moment, he's undertaking a very, very long walk from the south of England to Cape Rath in the north of Scotland.

1:08.0

Why? Well, he's trying to highlight the decline of the country's largest

1:11.2

wading bird, the curlew. Now, part of our chat on the Curleweree featured in our

1:15.2

Out of Doors programme, but as you'll hear, our conversation range far and wide on a whole

1:20.4

variety of topics. I met up with Roger on his walk as he approached Elwhinney in the Highlands.

1:26.0

Well, the walk, I guess, has three angles to.

1:28.2

The easiest one is I'm 62, I needed an adventure.

1:31.5

And let me tell you, 660 miles, it's an adventure.

1:35.5

That's an adventure. That's an adventure.

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