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🗓️ 21 July 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Mark Stephen speaks with Rory MacPhee at the Lindor Curative Forest.
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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. |
0:46.1 | Now you see this tree here. |
0:48.6 | So this is the mother tree of the forest. |
0:51.9 | So that's Betula pendula. |
0:56.2 | Very few people have seen a birch tree straighter and bigger than that one. Her seeds have given rise to all the birch you see around. |
1:03.2 | When you look closely, there's actually a lot of birch here and it gives it this lovely canopy. |
1:07.6 | See up there? So we've got the Sycamore up there. And the birch with these incredible shapes. |
1:14.1 | But this one is a remarkable, remarkable tree. |
1:20.0 | That's Rory McPhee, |
1:21.6 | describing some of the trees in his woodland in Fife. |
1:24.4 | And it's not just any old woodland. |
1:26.9 | It's what Rory calls a curative forest |
1:29.4 | and it's thought to be the first of its kind in Scotland. I'm Mark Stephen and thanks very |
1:34.1 | much for choosing to download Scotland outdoors. You know, Rory is an interesting bloke. A boat |
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