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🗓️ 2 June 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Mark Stephen meets naturalist and writer Polly Pullar at her home in Perthshire
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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. |
0:36.2 | The Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland. |
0:45.6 | Hello and thanks very much for downloading this. |
0:48.0 | I'm Mark Stephen. |
0:49.5 | This week I'm going to be talking to a naturalist and a writer called Polly Pula. |
0:54.5 | Now Polly lives in Highland, Purshire, which is also extremely well known in the area as a wildlife rehabilitator. |
1:01.0 | She returns injured or abandoned animals or birds to the natural environment after she's got them back on their feet again. |
1:06.7 | When I visited the Croft, we went straight to meet a couple of our charges. |
1:11.4 | These two squirrels have been with me for quite a long time. |
1:14.6 | One of them has been with me for this winter, |
1:17.0 | and the other one has been with me for two winters, which is really odd. |
1:21.1 | But the reason for that is because she was just far, far too tame. |
1:24.2 | She was hand-reared by somebody else, |
1:26.6 | and the aim was to have her one winter and then |
1:28.7 | release her last spring but she was still climbing all over me and it would have been far too risky. |
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