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Scotland Outdoors

Midgies, Mystery Bird and Earthquakes.

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7709 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2020

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Mark Stephen and Euan McIlwraith with a range of topics from around Scotland.

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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.

0:39.1

I'm Mark Stephen.

0:40.9

Obviously we're living in different times at the moment.

0:43.5

So what we're doing by way of podcast

0:45.5

is bringing you the live programme we do for BBC Radio Scotland

0:48.5

purely and simply because there is so much information

0:52.1

that we're getting in from listeners around the world, it seems a

0:55.5

period to waste it. So this is what we've been up to this week.

0:58.3

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

1:07.1

Flaming June? I don't think so. Ha! There was torrential rain last night and it's got slightly humid this morning and it's misty and claggy and a very, very soft day altogether. I'm Mark Stephen. With me about 45 miles to the north, Mr. Ewan McElwrest. Yeah, good morning from Bamshur as you say. It's a bit claggy, but it's slightly atmospheric.

1:27.9

You know, there's little breath of wind, the har's just hanging in there, and it's strangely romantic for want to have a better expression.

1:35.8

It's a bit early for that.

1:37.1

Coming up shortly on Out of Doors, Garda Stephenson takes us in a walk around Newhall Woods.

1:41.6

I recount my worst experience of midges ever. And I bet you you

1:46.4

can't. I really bet you you can't. Can you tell me what this sound is? Now one thing I've really noticed in the Virges, particularly at the moment, is the amount of wild flowers that have come out.

2:11.6

Round about us, there's things like cow parsley, Swiss Sicily, the umbelifers you've got, things like red campaign,

2:18.3

the obvious ones like dandelions, gorse. There is a lot of colour. There's actually quite a lot

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