History's Secret Heroes: Series 3: Leif Larsen and the Shetland Bus

History's Heroes

BBC

Documentary, History, Society & Culture

4.8 • 704 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

A Norwegian sailor carries out more than fifty missions via a secret shipping route between Scotland and occupied Norway. Will the Nazis uncover it?

Helena Bonham Carter shines a light on extraordinary stories from World War Two. Join her for incredible tales of deception, acts of resistance and courage.

A BBC Studios Audio production for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds.

Producer: Lorna Reader Executive Producer: Paul Smith Written by Alex von Tunzelmann Commissioning editor for Radio 4: Rhian Roberts

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0:00.0	Hi Curios, I'm Dara Brien.
0:03.0	And I'm Hannah Frye.
0:04.0	And we are back for another series of curious cases.
0:07.0	Where we investigate the scientific mysteries sent in by you.
0:11.0	I would like to know if anything in the universe is truly invisible.
0:14.0	Why do we lie?
0:16.0	What happens to our brains when we fall in love?
0:19.0	We tackle the mysteries of the universe through audacious experiments
0:22.1	and expert insight.
0:23.9	Curious cases.
0:24.9	Listen first on BBC Sounds.
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0:34.3	For his whole life,
0:36.0	Life Larsen had sailed the Norwegian fjords.
0:39.7	It's a very sort of harsh landscape.
0:42.3	You have all these fjords,
0:43.5	which is a result of the ice age.
0:46.5	When the ice retreated,
0:48.4	it decided to kind of ate up the gravel on the way
0:50.7	and made these very deep fjords,
0:54.0	which are very narrow, very sparsely populated as well.
0:58.0	It was October 1941.
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