Our Man in Orkney, Dave Gray

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Mark and Euan chat to former Radio Orkney colleague Dave Gray about radio and island life

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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.
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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	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 downloading this podcast.
0:48.7	I'm Mark Stephen and with me today is Mr. Ewan McElwreath.
0:52.9	It's a wee bit incestuous this week. This isn't the type of thing we normally do. But our guest on the Scotland Outdoors podcast today is an old friend of this program out of doors. He's called Dave Gray until very recently. Dave was our man in Orkney in his role of senior producer at the BBC there. Now, if you've got a mental image in your head
1:11.5	of what a BBC senior producer looks like and sounds like, forget it.
1:16.7	Dave's about as far away from W1A as you could possibly get.
1:20.7	Yeah, I've just got this image of Dave sitting in Orkney
1:23.6	with these hornedrimed spectacles and a suit.
1:27.7	As you say, a million miles from the truth.
1:30.3	Mark and I have known Dave for a long time.
1:32.7	We're delighted to welcome to the Scotland Outdoors podcast.
1:35.7	Get a wee flavour of life and Orkney in the role of the BBC.
1:39.3	The radio station is unique.
1:41.4	It is a gem of a BBC place.
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