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🗓️ 4 October 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Rachel Stewart 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. |
0:45.1 | Hello and thanks for choosing to listen to this. |
0:48.3 | I'm Rachel Stewart. |
0:50.3 | Now the Ness of Broadcar in Orkney is well known for being one of the most significant Neolithic sites in the whole world. |
0:58.8 | Since excavation work began in 2004, archaeologists have made one incredible discovery after another. |
1:08.3 | Next year, we'll see the final digs at the site and the ancient settlement |
1:13.4 | will then be covered over to protect it from the elements. I spoke to two of the people who've |
1:19.7 | been instrumental in leading this incredible project, Anne Mitchell and Nick Card. And they started by telling me how it all began 20 years ago. |
1:31.3 | Well, the story really begins when the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site was designated back in 1999. |
1:40.3 | And from there, we initially did, started a large-scale geophysics program looking for anomalies |
1:47.0 | to put the known sites into kind of wider context. And what the geophysics showed was that these two |
1:53.5 | fields were just covered in anomalies. And from there we started off fairly small scale just |
1:58.3 | with a series of test bits. But as you'll see, our trenches have since got a bit bigger. |
2:03.7 | When did you become aware that this was a site of such huge significance? |
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