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Scotland Outdoors

Celebrating trees - from forest bathing to Tree of the Year. And this week's mystery bird...

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7709 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2020

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Mark Stephen and Euan McIlwraith celebrate the wonder of trees.

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

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

0:38.8

I'm Mark Stephen.

0:40.3

And as ever, we're trying to bring you as much of the outdoors, indoors as we conceivably can.

0:45.2

I'm standing in BBC Aberdeen, but broadcasting from BBC Banff, Mr Ewan McElwreath.

0:50.4

We're bathed in sunshine here and just absolutely enjoying the birds and the trees and it's a real celebration of trees today.

0:58.4

Richard Alciman got in touch from Canada and he said, I'm in Ottawa who are in isolation here.

1:04.1

It's great to be able to hear the sounds and stories of the Scottish countryside and feel some connection with nature.

1:10.5

And Chris Veer emailed from New Zealand,

1:13.8

I've been listening to your podcast for a few years now and absolutely love the content.

1:18.3

Scotland holds a special place in my heart for my time based in Edinburgh during the mid-1980s

1:23.6

and I returned three years ago to Tour Scotland again. And Chris also sent his own Don Corus recording.

1:29.7

Thanks very much for that.

1:31.0

We'll try and feature that in future programmes.

1:34.4

You're listening to Out of Doors on BBC Radio Scotland.

1:42.9

Hello, the sun is shining.

1:44.4

There are two layers of high cloud up there,

1:47.2

but that our patch is a blue sky,

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