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Personal Landscapes — 75 episodes
Katja Hoyer on life at the edge of catastrophe
Nicholas Crane on the hidden history of Britain's paths
Robert Kaplan on a world in permanent crisis
Isabella Tree on Nepal’s living goddess
Easter Island with archaeologist Mike Pitts
Moonlighting: reliving the 80’s with Scott Ryan
Constantine Cavafy with biographer Gregory Jusdanis
Peter Matthiessen with biographer Lance Richardson
Alex Hutchinson on what drives us to explore
Foster Hirsch on film noir and 1950s Hollywood
Peter Carpenter: Walking in the Footsteps of David Bowie
Justin Marozzi: Slavery in the Islamic World
Europe By Rail with Nicky Gardner
Louis D. Hall on riding to the end of the land
Andrew McCarthy on walking the Camino and the Brat Pack
Germany’s Broken Republic
Kyle Chayka on how the internet flattened culture
Sophy Roberts on A Training School for Elephants
Joseph Koudelka with biographer Melissa Harris
Clair Wills on Ireland’s missing persons
Deborah Lawrenson on her mother the spy
Michael Asher on crossing the Sahara by camel
Charles Nicholl on Rimbaud’s lost Africa years
Paul Theroux on life’s vanishing points
Julian Evans on Odesa and Ukraine
Jeffrey Meyers on charting parallel lives
Cam Honan on the hiking life
Richard Grant: A race to the bottom of crazy
Lesley Downer on poetry in Japan’s deep north
Thomas Swick: Life in Cold War Poland
Eric Cline: Why civilization ended in 1177 B.C.
Paul Theroux on Orwell and Burma Sahib
Jonathan Raban: one of our greatest writers on place
James Salter: with biographer Jeffrey Meyers
Andrew Finkel: Sherlock Holmes and the Ottoman Empire
The Wakhan Corridor with Bill Colegrave
Justin Marozzi: Tamerlane and Samarkand
Alex Kerr: Finding hidden Japan
Barnaby Rogerson: The making of the Middle East
Sarah Anderson: Founding The Travel Bookshop
Louisa Waugh: Life on the edge of Mongolia
Bruce Chatwin: with editor and friend Susannah Clapp
Laura Trethewey: Mapping our unknown oceans
Tim Cocks: Life in Africa’s biggest megacity
Jeremy Bassetti: Pilgrims on Bolivia’s Hill of Skulls
The Pyrenees: Matthew Carr on Europe’s savage frontier
Simon Winchester: Outposts at the edge of the world
Tom Parfitt: Walking the High Caucasus
Richard Grant: Travels With American Nomads
Anthony Sattin: How nomads shaped settled civilization
The Sahara with Eamonn Gearon
Eastern Europe with Jacob Mikanowski
Berlin with Barney White-Spunner
Joseph Roth: The collapse of the civilized world
Norman Lewis: The 20th century’s greatest travel writer
Steve Kilbey: writing, lyrics & songs about place
Gordon Peake: Insider stories from the world of foreign aid
Edith Durham: The traveler who became Albania’s mountain queen
David Thompson and the mapping of Canada
Rebecca Lowe: Cycling through the Middle East’s fractured mosaic
Martha Gellhorn: with biographer Caroline Moorehead
Guy Kennaway: Life in a Jamaican village
Sophie Haydock: Egon Schiele and fin de siècle Vienna
Carole Angier: The strange world of W.G. Sebald
David Eimer: Cultural survival in China’s borderlands
Dervla Murphy: Reflections on a lifetime of travel
Nigel Barley: The Innocent Anthropologist
Jeremy Seal: Modern Turkey and the 1960 coup
John Gimlette: Madagascar, and ‘walking the dead’
Sara Wheeler: Russia, Antarctica and how we shape stories
Jerry Kobalenko: Searching for ghosts on Ellesmere Island
Lawrence Millman: the Arctic, technology and saving stories
Rory Maclean: Berlin, Bowie and the new Cold War
Anthropology-lite with Barnaby Rogerson of Eland books
Introducing... Personal Landscapes