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.

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

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

Tales of deception, an incredible acts of resistance and courage.

She was a born soldier.

She's a freedom fighter in its widest sense.

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The Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland. I mean, I've always, always loved maps, and that was my first island journeys

were kind of the curious ones through the pages of atlases.

And I love the way that old maps show us the ways that islands are being imagined over centuries.

I confess to having a somewhat ambivalent relationship with islands.

Part of me really likes islands.

I like stepping off a boat and onto an island

and the pace of life very often just seems to slow down.

I like the fact that there are parameters,

that there are edges to things.

What I don't think I would like,

what I don't think I could cope with on a day-to-day basis,

is the lack of privacy,

that sense of being in a goldfish bowl,

of everybody knowing your business.

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