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Scotland Outdoors

Nature is Good For You - a blast of fresh air for the New Year and why we should all spend more time outdoors.

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7709 Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2020

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Mark Stephen and Euan McIlwraith with a special New Year podcast.

Transcript

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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 Salons.

0:35.2

Hello and a very happy new year to you.

0:37.0

We thought, maybe like us, you have eaten well, but possibly not too wisely, and you feel

0:42.6

it's time for a wee bit of personal reconfiguration.

0:44.9

If so, we are here to help with a pretty healthy blast of fresh air.

0:49.8

I had a spiritual experience when I was working in one of the gardens here.

0:54.7

I was just weeding some kale and I went into an altered state of consciousness.

1:01.0

There's this huge hunger amongst people to reconnect.

1:04.5

1.5 million years of doing it one way.

1:07.3

Even if you don't know that's what you want, that's a draw.

1:11.4

We used to know all the names of the trees.

1:13.7

We used to use them.

1:14.5

We used to plant round trees out the front of our house to keep evil spirits away.

1:19.1

And we used to plant elder trees out the back to keep flies away.

1:22.0

And we used to have a holly tree planted as well to protect us from lightning strikes.

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