I'm Rory Stewart and I grew up wanting to be a hero and I'm still fascinated by the ideas of heroism.

In my new series, I'm taking in the long sweep of history from Achilles to Zelensky and asking, what is a hero?

Simply doing your job, being a decent human being.

A true hero is someone who just kind of shines by

their own light and that light is to be recognised by others. The long history of heroism with me,

Rory Stewart. Listen on BBC Sounds. This Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.

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

As we tell you every week, we do a couple of podcasts every week,

one of which is built from the live program we do for BBC Radio Scotland called Out of Doors.

And this week we've gone all autumnal.

I passed through some stunning parts of Scotland this week.

I was down in our guile.

So effectively from the north-east of Scotland,

you're going diagonally right across Scotland.

It's about 200 miles.

It's beautiful, beautiful scenes, I like that. You know, it's a driven past. But there's one section between Ford and Dalmali. It's about 23 miles a single track road. It goes along the shore of Loch Ogh, heavily wooded, lots of oaks and things like that. Like passing through a green tunnel. Ask me what the views are like there. I have no idea. I was too terrified to take my eyes off the road. Scary, scary stuff. Having said that, beautiful part of the world. Good morning. I'm Mark Stephen. Sit on the other side of the fire pit, Rachel Stewart. Oh, you're a whim, aren't you? You're a whim. Aye. And it's a logging road. Oh, oh. It's a lot of pulling into the side and holding your breath. Not to mention the sort of mobile homes and things like that and what I have it. And really, there should be some sort of certification. I can actually reverse this thing before I hire it. I'm just saying. I'm just saying. Have you been soaking up autumn? Because I think this is our first

program in autumn. If you're willing to accept it starts at the start of September. Yes. I don't

know about you, but we're at a very, very dry summer. We've then had a reasonable splash of rain

just for about two or three days. And I think it's made a big difference. Everything's green's greened up again Yeah, aye and it has been really nice because when the sun's out the sun is still warm You know But the air is cold And the light's definitely getting a bit different I don't know that termina It's nice It's nice And apples galore My auntie was kind enough To drop off some apples this week. Quite a big bag of them. I'm not quite sure what I'm going to do with them, but they're delicious. Chutney. Aye, chutney. With that domestic handicraft, which is your... Basically, it's your middle name. I'm superb at that. And I saw autumn crocuses this week as well. Oh, we've got them. Very, very pretty. And I've been told that tomorrow, no, not to, aye, tomorrow night,

tomorrow night's Sunday night, you need to look out for the moon.

You need to look out for the moon because there's going to be a total lunar eclipse and it's going to be a blood moon.

I don't think it'll be a totality in Scotland though. No. But it'll be partial. But it'll turn it reddish. It'll be Bonnie. Take a picture. Send it into us. We'd love to see it out of doors at BBC.co.uk. And I was chatting to a guy this week who said, you need to tell the person who's employed to do your mystery sound that they're just too hard.

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