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Scotland Outdoors

Tools, spatulas, bees and the John Muir Trust

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7709 Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Euan McIlwraith and Karen Mackenzie with 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 and incredible acts of resistance and courage. She was a born soldier.

0:27.4

She's a freedom fighter in its widest sense. The brand new series of history's secret heroes.

0:32.8

Listen first on BBC Sounds. You're listening to the Scotland Outdoors podcast on Saturday the 20th of October.

0:40.3

I'm Ewan McElwraith and with me, Karen McKenzie.

0:42.3

Hello to you.

0:43.3

You've had a busy week.

0:45.3

I've had a great week.

0:46.3

You could almost argue you had a better week than me.

0:49.3

I'll argue that. I have. It's been fantastic.

0:51.3

I've been with the bees and a new battle Abbey College.

0:55.8

It got slightly too close to them, or they got slightly too close to me. I've actually been

1:00.8

in a tool library in Leith. It was the first two library in Scotland. And I've been whittling a spatula.

1:07.5

Whistling? No, with a knife. With an axe first and then a knife?

1:11.6

An axe?

1:12.6

Yeah, they let me loose with an axe and a knife.

1:14.6

They have no idea.

1:15.6

Now, getting a job working in the outdoors isn't easy.

1:18.6

Jobs tend not to be well paid.

1:20.6

Loads of organisation rely on volunteers who may, may, if they're lucky, move on to paid employment.

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