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🗓️ 23 February 2022
⏱️ 29 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. |
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. |
0:45.5 | Hello and thanks very much for choosing to listen to this podcast. |
0:48.8 | I'm Mark Stephen. |
0:49.9 | And for this podcast we've been having a rummage about in our archives. |
0:53.0 | Back in 2016, on a wet and windy day at the end of November, |
0:57.6 | I recorded a programme about a remarkable woman called Anne Wallowa. |
1:02.0 | 30-od years ago, Anne came to live in a small island off the south-west of sky called Soi. |
1:06.8 | It's one of the most remote spots in Scotland. |
1:13.6 | I have to say, it's a bit of a trail. For me you head up from Aberdeenshire to Inverness |
1:21.6 | and then from Inverness you head north towards Ullupil, |
1:24.6 | cut left towards Loch Cairn, |
1:26.6 | cross the hills towards Kala Lakhalsh, |
1:29.3 | across the bridge to Sky, then you travel right the way across Sky to Elgol, and then it's this. |
1:35.3 | An eight-minute fast-rip crossing to the island of Soey. The island is actually pretty low-lying |
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