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🗓️ 10 May 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Mark Stephen presents 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. |
0:35.6 | This Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland. |
0:43.8 | Hello and thank you very much for choosing to listen to this. |
0:49.3 | I'm Mark Stephen. |
0:51.0 | In this week's podcast, my guest is writer and journalist Peter Ross. |
0:55.3 | Now, you may recall I've spoken to Peter before. |
0:57.7 | He wrote a book called A Tomb with a View. |
1:00.6 | Really clever idea. |
1:02.2 | He researched unearthed, if you pardon the pun, |
1:05.6 | a whole series of fascinating stories behind cemeteries around the UK. |
1:10.2 | His latest book is called steeple chasing around Britain by church. |
1:14.6 | Equally fascinating, equally strange, equally mind-bending in places. |
1:19.6 | So it was only fitting that we met up at a church in Glasgow |
1:23.6 | to find out where all his new book has taken him. |
1:26.6 | We're walking up the path here to Govan Old Paris Church. |
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