4.7 • 709 Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Euan McIlwraith looks at Scottish Hogmanay traditions from across the decades
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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. |
0:36.2 | The Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland. |
0:44.3 | For it's haggmany, |
0:49.3 | Harkmaney, that's old Scotland's greatest day |
0:55.0 | Or can blame us if we all get happy |
1:00.0 | So come along and hear a wee wee drappy |
1:05.0 | For it's Agmany |
1:08.0 | Hagmany |
1:10.0 | Let's be blithe and gay, |
1:12.6 | for you ne'er can see where we all may be |
1:18.6 | upon next Agmany. |
1:22.6 | That's my father, singing in the dying minutes of 1986. |
1:28.3 | I remember it still his back to the fire, a whiskey within easy reach, his face full of the joy of family and occasion. |
1:39.3 | In houses across this land, folk would raise a glass, |
1:45.0 | gather round the flames and sing for its hog-miné, or hug-min'y as he called it, |
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