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🗓️ 2 February 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Mark Stephen presents the Scotland Outdoors podcast
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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. |
0:45.4 | Hello and thanks very much for choosing to listen to this. |
0:48.1 | I'm Mark Stephen. |
0:49.6 | Our podcast this week features two people, Anila and Andy McKenna. |
0:54.1 | Now they run a company called Go Ware Scotland that effectively take small features two people, Anila and Andy McKenna. Now, they run a company called Go Ware, Scotland, that effectively takes small groups of people, mountain biking for days at time sometimes, and there can't be many corners of Scotland that they haven't visited together. The ethos of their company is quite straightforward. They believe in well-being, both mental and physical, and fostering |
1:11.8 | everything possible to do with that, but they're also into inclusion and diversity. That makes |
1:17.4 | sense because Anila family was originally from Pakistan and she has encountered racism across |
1:22.2 | the years. And in terms of inclusion, Andy was diagnosed with MS back in 2007. |
1:30.0 | There are dozens and dozens of questions I want to ask you, Pierre. |
1:33.3 | But I'll start with an easy one. |
1:35.1 | How did you meet? |
1:37.0 | Well, we've been together now roughly 26 years. |
1:42.5 | I met Anila. |
1:49.4 | I didn't really meet her. That sounds like it was a kind of a per-chance encounter, but I actually actively chased Anila around Glasgow University campus for several years, |
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