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Scotland Outdoors

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Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7709 Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Mark Stephen presents Scotland Outdoors

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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.

0:35.6

This Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.

0:45.9

Hello and thank you very much for choosing to listen to this.

0:48.5

I'm Mark Stephen.

0:50.1

I recorded this podcast when we took the programme up to Lerwick for the tall ships race.

0:55.0

Now Shetland, being an island archipelago, is an ideal place to host all these tall ships

1:00.3

because it's got such a rich maritime heritage itself.

1:04.8

The local museum in Lerwick, for example, has its own boat hall,

1:08.4

along with a collection of boats floating in the nearby dock.

1:11.3

There was one particular boat I'd heard about that I really wanted to see.

1:15.1

It's a replica of something called a six aren, a six-oared boat.

1:19.3

It's sailed by Dr Mark Chivers, a boat-building advisor,

1:22.9

and Brian Wishart, an instructor in traditional sailing.

1:26.8

Well, we're standing right next to the Vellamay,

1:29.4

which is one of the two six-herns,

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