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🗓️ 15 March 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Rachel Stewart speaks to ‘Women on Wheels’ in Glasgow.
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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. |
0:35.6 | This Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland. |
0:39.7 | Hi and thanks for choosing to listen to the Scotland Outdoors podcast. I'm Rachel Stewart. |
0:57.8 | Now, I enjoy cycling and I was lucky enough to learn how to ride as a child. And over the years, |
1:04.8 | I've really loved getting out on my old bike. I suppose enjoying the freedom that you get |
1:10.6 | from being on two wheels. |
1:13.1 | But statistically, women are much less likely to cycle than men. And many girls appear to |
1:19.5 | abandon cycling completely by the time they hit their teenage years. Well, a group in Glasgow |
1:25.9 | called Women on Wheels want to change all that. |
1:28.3 | I popped along to speak to Shigufta Anwar and Holly Barwick about what they're doing to promote |
1:34.3 | cycling and startively asking Shogofta about her fascinating journey as a cycling campaigner. |
1:41.3 | There's a group of us and we've been kind of working together in a voluntary and paid capacity |
1:49.1 | for probably best part of a decade. |
1:51.2 | And we started off in a Muslim women's charity about eight or nine years ago and it was a |
1:56.0 | climate change project and part of that was sustainable transport and we set up a cycling club |
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