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🗓️ 30 March 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Mark and Euan take a trip on the Borders' Railway with writer and campaigner David Spaven
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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. |
0:35.7 | The Scotland Outdoors podcast with Mark Stephen and Ewan McElwraith from BBC Radio Scotland. |
0:47.7 | Hello and thanks very much for choosing to listen to this. I'm Mark Stephen. |
0:51.2 | Joining me for a rather unusual Scotland Outdoors podcast, Mr. Ewan Michael Reilly. |
0:55.6 | Yeah, we're at Platform 3 on Waverly Station. |
0:58.2 | Beside the train that's going to take us from Edinburgh down to Stow in the borders. |
1:03.5 | You and I are not alone. |
1:04.8 | I guess today is real expert David Spavin. |
1:07.2 | David's got a new book out called Scotland's Lost Branch Lines. |
1:12.6 | What's the dog called, by the way? Rudy, he's a cross between a Spaniel and a border collie, very appropriate as we're heading to the borders. |
1:17.6 | Given the cross, he's remarkably well behaved. |
1:20.6 | So far, so far, so good. |
1:22.6 | Look, let's just get seats and we'll get ourselves organized and we'll take it from there. |
1:26.6 | I'm looking up. Let's just get seats and we'll get ourselves organized and we'll take it from there. |
1:35.8 | There we go. He likes looking out the window, does he? |
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