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🗓️ 19 February 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Helen Needham meets seed librarian Rowan Lear
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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. |
0:40.3 | There's something about growing a plant from seed all the way back to seed again |
0:50.3 | that connects you with the cycles of the earth and really connects you with your seasons where you are, |
0:55.0 | connects you with the weather conditions that you experience. |
0:58.0 | Even if you're just growing on a pot on your windowsill or something like that, |
1:01.0 | I think it's such a vital way of reconnecting. |
1:04.0 | It's just really fun to do. |
1:06.0 | It's really nice to engage with plants in this way. |
1:10.0 | Rowan Lear is a librarian at the Glasgow Seed Library and is passionate about encouraging more people to grow plants and save seeds. |
1:18.6 | There are many reasons for this growing movement of seed saving as you'll hear. |
1:23.6 | I'm Helen Needham and in this edition of Scotland Outdoors I I met up with Rowan in Queen's Park on the south side of Glasgow. |
1:31.3 | First up, Rowan explained the origins of the seed library. |
1:35.3 | We describe it as a collection of seeds and a community of people. |
1:39.3 | It started in 2019 and it's hosted by the Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow |
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