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🗓️ 19 April 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Mark Stephen presents Scotland Outdoors
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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, an incredible acts of resistance and courage. |
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. |
0:35.6 | This Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland. |
0:45.3 | Hello and thank you very much for choosing to listen to this. I'm Mark Stephen. |
0:50.3 | Happiness is often associated with things like success or fame or fortune. |
0:57.0 | But some of the most interesting, in fact some of the happiest people I've ever met, follow a different path. |
1:04.0 | This week I'm visiting a place called Langley Park, which is a house and gardens just outside Montrose on the east coast of Scotland. |
1:11.9 | Now, owners, Marianne and Philip Santa, moved there in 2001. |
1:17.0 | And since then, their restoration of the house and the gardens has very much been a labour of love. |
1:23.4 | I let Marianne take up the story. |
1:26.1 | We were farming down in Kent. |
1:29.0 | We had 600 ewes and various grass. |
1:33.0 | We did hay for horses. |
1:36.1 | And we'd also started a dried flower business |
1:38.9 | about 15 years before we moved up here, which was in 2001. |
1:44.1 | And it just got busier and busier and busier down there. |
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