Mark and Euan visit a brand new fish market, a rejuvenated country estate and a Scottish rainforest

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2019

⏱️ 67 minutes

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A Scottish rainforest, a brand new fish market and a rejuvenated country estate

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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 and 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.
0:35.4	Hello and thank you very much for downloading the Scotland Outdoors podcast.
0:38.3	I'm Mark Stephen.
0:39.3	He's Ewan McElwraith.
0:40.3	As ever this week, we've been skating about all over Scotland.
0:43.3	Yeah, I've been visiting an estate down in Ayrshire.
0:47.3	Can I, be honest, can I run down part of the world that's got its challenges?
0:50.3	I was there 12 years ago to see the ideas that the new owner had and I've been back and it's inspirational.
0:57.0	Yeah. And this time of year in Scotland is when the seabirds start to come back to the cliffs. So I took a turn up to an area called Troophead in the Murray Firth and one of the most dramatic locations in Scotland and sure sure enough, they are beginning to recolonise.
1:11.8	So exciting times.
1:12.9	Exciting times.
1:14.1	Normally, when you go back to somewhere that you knew as a child,
1:17.8	there's a sense of disappointment.
1:19.1	You find yourself standing, looking at things and thinking,
1:21.3	I'm sure they were bigger than this.
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