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🗓️ 9 February 2022
⏱️ 28 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. |
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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. |
0:45.7 | Hello and thanks very much for choosing to listen to this podcast. |
0:48.9 | I'm Mark Stephen. |
0:50.6 | My companion today is Ninian Stuart. |
0:53.1 | Now, I met up with Ninian in the village of Falkland in Fife. |
0:57.0 | It is a place that is rich in Redland, you might say, with history. |
1:01.0 | And Ninian is actually the steward of the Falkland estate. |
1:05.0 | Now, I wanted to find out, what does that actually mean to be a steward? |
1:10.0 | So the estate's 4,000 acres. wanted to find out what does that actually mean to be a steward? |
1:23.1 | So the estates, 4,000 acres. It reaches from Falkland Village up to the top of the hill that we're seeing over there and then reaches up to Dunshelte as you go out towards Akhtar Mukhti and doesn't go as far |
1:34.0 | but goes most of the way to Strathma Glow and it's a very mixed estate it oh of course has gone |
1:42.7 | through many many phases of, but it was probably brought |
1:48.0 | together as it is is-ish now around about 1820, and so it's been, yeah, it's been of that |
1:57.2 | ilk, maybe a bit larger at certain points. It's probably a bit smaller now than it |
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