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🗓️ 4 December 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Mark follows the route through Glencoe, Kinlochleven and Rannoch Moor.
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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, |
0:23.4 | an incredible acts of resistance |
0:25.1 | and courage. |
0:26.3 | She was a born soldier. |
0:27.4 | She's a freedom fighter |
0:28.3 | in its widest sense. |
0:29.9 | The brand new series |
0:31.0 | of history's secret heroes. |
0:32.8 | Listen first on BBC Sounds. |
0:36.1 | This Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland. |
0:45.3 | Hello and thank you very much for choosing to listen to this. |
0:49.0 | This is part three of our kidnapped adventure series. |
0:52.6 | I'm Mark Stephen. |
0:54.1 | In this edition we're going to be heading |
0:55.4 | towards Glencoe, Kinloch Levin, and the expanse of Rannach Moore, following in the footsteps of |
1:01.3 | the two main characters of Robert Louis Stevenson's novel, Kidnapped. Now Stevenson very cleverly |
1:07.7 | conflates fact and fiction in Kidnapped. We've got the fictional hero, Lowlander, David Balfour. |
1:12.9 | He's shipwrecked off the island of Erid near Mull |
1:15.0 | after being kidnapped with the intention of being sold as a slave to the colonies. |
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