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Scotland Outdoors

Mountain Hares, Snowdrops and Swifts

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7709 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2023

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Mark Stephen and Rachel Stewart present 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.

0:34.7

This Scotland Outdoors podcast with Mark Stephen and Rachel Stewart from BBC Radio Scotland.

0:45.3

Hello and thank you very much for choosing to listen to this.

0:48.1

I'm Mark Stephen, she's Rachel Stewart.

0:50.1

As you probably know, we build the Scotland Outdoors podcast from the live programme we do for BBC Radio Scotland, which is called Out of Doors.

0:56.9

And this week, Mark's been in pursuit of mountain hares and he's learned that whatever you do, don't try to sneak up on them.

1:06.4

Hello, how are you this morning? I'll tell you how we are. I'll put into context. I've just seen an advert online saying, for sale, polytunnel, requires some reassembly. I'll bet it does. We're in an absolute hoolly yesterday. It was brilliant. I'm Mark Stevens sitting here in the car park in Aberdeen. Sitting across the other side of the fire, Rachel Stewart.

1:26.6

Good morning. One of my friends, actually lives in Edinburgh posted a picture last night of someone else's giant trampoline in her garden.

1:35.8

So it was definitely a windy day yesterday. I'm glad it's much calmer today, though it does feel like a February morning.

1:41.8

You know, it was sleety showers on the way in.

1:43.7

It was. it's dark

1:45.5

it's wet the winter's died thankfully

1:47.8

the lighting in BBC is not

1:50.2

working so we have a head torch

1:51.9

more or less cellar taped to the little

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