meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Scotland Outdoors

Wildlife cameraman Raymond Besant shares his passion for Orkney's wildlife including filming otters for BBC Springwatch.

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7709 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Raymond chats to Mark Stephen and Helen Needham from his home in Orkney.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

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.

0:22.1

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. Hello, and thank you very much for downloading the Scotland Outdoors podcast.

0:39.8

I'm Mark Stephen and this week I'm not actually sitting in my garden in Aberdeenshire

0:43.8

because today the weather has been brilliant sunshine one minute, torrential rain the next minute,

0:49.5

brilliant sunshine one minute, so frankly I just don't trust it enough to set up outside

0:54.0

because the

0:54.4

recording equipment will

0:55.4

all get soaked.

0:56.4

Yesterday, I actually

0:57.5

got a photograph of

0:58.7

what's known as a

0:59.6

funnel cloud.

1:00.4

It looks like a

1:00.9

tornado.

1:01.4

It didn't quite

1:01.8

touch the ground,

1:02.8

which apparently is

1:03.5

what makes it a tornado.

...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in -1720 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BBC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of BBC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.