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Scotland Outdoors

Dr Neil's Garden at Duddingston, Edinburgh

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7709 Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Mark Stephen presents Scotland Outdoors

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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

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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

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0:32.8

Listen first on BBC Sounds.

0:35.6

This Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.

0:45.4

Hello and thanks very much for choosing to listen to this.

0:48.4

I'm Mark Stephen.

0:50.1

It's rare to go into somewhere as a stranger,

0:52.7

somewhere you've never been before

0:53.9

and feel almost

0:55.2

immediately at home. It happened to be quite recently in an unusual location, more or less in

1:02.1

the centre of Scotland's capital city, Edinburgh. Just to the north of Duddingston Loch, there's a two

1:07.7

acre site called Dr Neil's Garden. Now Neil was the surname. There were two

1:11.9

doctors, husband and wife. And together they created somewhere really remarkable.

1:19.2

Claudia Potier is the head gardener and she told me how it came to be.

1:28.5

This is, I mean it is a very, very special place.

1:31.3

It has a very special, tranquil feeling.

1:33.4

It feels like people have been here for thousands and thousands of years.

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