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Scotland Outdoors

Torry Battery Coastal Special

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7709 Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2018

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Mark Stephen and Karen MacKenzie with a coastal themed podcast.

Transcript

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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

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0:17.6

What they wanted was someone to get themselves arrested and sent to Auschwitz.

0:22.0

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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.

0:36.3

Hello and thank you very much for downloading the Scotland Outdose podcast.

0:39.4

I'm Mark Stephen.

0:40.2

We've managed to escape the convines of the BBC Aberdeen Car Park this week.

0:45.4

And we've headed not terribly far away, admittedly,

0:47.8

but just to get a wee breath of sea air.

0:50.5

And standing here looking at the North Sea with me is Karen McKenzie.

0:54.1

Yeah, hello. We're right at Tory Battery, but you still get in touch with us.

0:57.9

Email Out ofdoors at BBC.gov.org, tweet at BBC Outofdoors or get in touch on Facebook.

1:04.1

Just to paint the scene for you at the moment, we're standing on top of what's the south side of Aberdeen Harbour. Looking across the entrance of the harbour itself,

1:11.0

there's the big long pier that comes out from Fitty, the beach sweeps right the way around.

1:15.3

From here, we can see all the way up the coast, probably as far as Cruden Bay. In the foreground,

1:20.2

we've probably got about a dozen oil supply boats, and then these big marine or maritime wind turbines.

1:27.2

It's a phenomenal sea, this.

1:28.7

I mean, it's really quite impressive, isn't it?

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