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Scotland Outdoors

Mark and Helen climb Suilven, find out about the pipistrelle bat and the joys of river swimming

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7709 Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2020

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

A climb up Suilven, the life of the pipistrelle bat and the joys of river swimming

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

0:39.3

I'm Mark Stephen.

0:40.3

It has been a week of enormous weather contrasts here in Scotland this week.

0:45.1

We've had brilliant sunshine, heat waves, thunder, lightning, flooding, you name it.

0:51.2

Anyway, this is what we get up to this week.

0:56.8

Oh, I just came down from the windy city, except it isn't.

1:00.8

There isn't a breath of wind. There's not so much as a breeze, a zephyr.

1:04.4

If a sparrow were to cough at the moment, it would feel like a typhoon.

1:08.5

It's just extraordinarily calm and still in the car park in Aberdeen here this morning.

1:13.5

I'm Mark Stephen with me today.

1:15.0

Helen Needham.

1:15.7

I am struggling to sleep at night when it's like this.

1:18.8

It's just very thick, still air, very strange.

1:22.9

And I've noticed you've got a bit of a spring in your step this morning.

1:26.2

Oh well, well, well, well. We're going to be talking about wild swimming later in the programme, and I got a bit stupid,

1:31.4

to be honest, this morning, and went down to Aberdeen Beach,

1:34.4

probably a bit quarter to five, something like that in the morning, and went into the water,

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