4.7 • 709 Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2019
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Euan McIlwraith and Helen Needham with this week's digest.
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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. You're listening to the Scotland Outdoors podcast. I'm Ewan McElwraith. |
0:39.4 | I'm Helen Needham. And it's midsummer almost in the north-east of Scotland. It'd be hard |
0:43.1 | push to tell though because we've got a thick hare or a thick fog. But with gloat's coming up, |
0:47.9 | we're going to be looking at the effect of Lyme's disease and the fact that you can catch it |
0:52.5 | in our cities. We're also going to be going up to the island of Yale, which is the second most northerly |
1:00.0 | island in the British Islands. |
1:02.0 | And I'm going to be speaking to the chap who runs the highly important Borreveau Community Hall. |
1:08.0 | We'll also go on a sea farie just south of Stonehaven with Mark Stephen. |
1:12.3 | But first of all, Lyme disease is a bacterial infection and spread to humans by infected ticks. |
1:18.7 | They feed on the blood of birds and mammals, including us, but tick numbers are on the rise. |
1:24.5 | And apparently, so is Lyme disease. So checking yourself when you've been out and about is absolutely essential. |
1:30.6 | Yeah but not just in the hills and it's not just in the highlands either. |
1:33.6 | A lot of cuttle met up with Fiona Stalker to find out more. |
1:37.3 | Lyme disease is something that in our lives we're hearing more about than we have done for a number of years. I have a personal |
1:49.1 | interest in it, I must say that. So about 11 years ago, I noticed a bullseye rash on the back |
1:55.0 | of my leg. I didn't know what it was. I went along to my GP and my GP, which I now know, |
2:02.8 | I was incredibly lucky, said, |
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