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.

The brand new series of History's secret heroes.

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The Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.

Hello and thanks very much for choosing this podcast. I'm Helen Needham.

The genre known as nature writing has become firmly established as a thing in British and American literature in recent years.

But writing about the natural world has been something that has occurred for centuries, although it may not have been defined in those terms.

I think it would be true to say that most of the work that is traditionally celebrated is from the male perspective,

but that's not to say women haven't been writing about what they observe about the world around them.

Catherine Norbury has put together a new anthology called Women on Nature,

which features extracts from over a hundred different women

spanning a period of over 700 years.

From well-known voices like Charlotte Bronte to Nan Shepard, Enid Blyton to Sylvia Plath,

plus a whole range of other writers I've never even encountered,

but who write compellingly about the natural world.

I spoke with Kate recently over Zoom from her home in London,

and she told me that the common theme with this wide-ranging work

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