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Scotland Outdoors

Jonah The Whale, a field of flints near the river Dee and the ancient art of salmon net fishing

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7709 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2021

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Mark Stephen and Euan McIlwraith present the Scotland Outdoors podcast

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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.

0:36.2

The Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.

0:46.0

Hello and thanks very much for choosing this.

0:48.4

I'm Mark Stephen.

0:49.3

We build the Scotland Outer's Podcast out of the live programme we do for BBC Radio Scotland, which is called Out of Doors.

0:56.6

And it was a very, very mixed bag this week. We had beavers, we had Jonah the whale, and we also had the origin of the phrase lurking about.

1:08.4

Hello and a very good morning to you. I'm going to share a useful life hack with you, which I just discovered this morning.

1:13.6

I came out here this morning to put the fire on. I had a cup of coffee with me and I thought, oh, if I leave that out there, it's going to get cold. So I took my woolly hat off my head and stuck it over the coffee. Now, not only does it keep the coffee warm, when you put the woolly hat back on your head, it's nice and cozy. There you go. That's for nothing. From me to you. I'm Mark

1:34.1

Stephen standing here, going out my wets here at Beach Grove in Aberdeenshire, returning from his sojourn to

1:38.9

Ortony to the calmer climes of Bamsha, Mr Ewan McElriff. You know, people pay good licence for money to listen to the radio.

1:47.1

It's their own fault.

1:47.7

And you're putting hats on cups of coffee.

1:51.0

Yeah.

1:51.9

Get in touch if you can do better than that.

1:53.8

We love hearing about what you're up to.

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