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Scotland Outdoors

The Awakening of Glenshee - The Stories of the Giant's Hand and the Climate Emergency

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7709 Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Mark Stephen meets the people behind The Awakening Art Project at the Spittal of Glenshee

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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.

0:44.3

Here in Glen Shee, I warn of a burning of your winters.

0:52.6

My name is destiny.

0:55.2

I'm everything.

0:56.6

I'm everywhere.

0:58.6

I'm the sum of your misadventures,

1:00.9

your unchecked greed,

1:02.6

your blindfolded advance down roads built from others' pain.

1:07.5

I was once a landscape of endless opportunity,

1:14.2

and now I'm dying in the choke.

1:26.7

That's poet Jim McIntosh, reading from his poem The Awakening, which is essentially a call for action,

1:30.1

a plea for humankind to radically transform the way we live in order to evade the devastating consequences of climate change.

1:33.9

I'm Mark Stephen.

1:34.7

In this edition of Scotland Outdoors, I'm at the Spital of Glen Shee in Pershire,

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