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'Gone To Timbuktu', hosted by the bestselling author and journalist Sophy Roberts, explores the art of travel with writers, poets, photographers and filmmakers. Conversations range from physical journeys to inner landscapes, creative influences and new ideas.
Sophy Roberts hosts Gone To Timbuktu, a society show with 36 episodes published.
A masterclass on photography, in this funny, intimate conversation about therapists, the role of luck, Marxist newspapers, and sleeping on the ledge of a bubbling lava lake in the DRC. With multi awardwinning photographe
The acclaimed British artist George Butler draws in situ with pen, ink and watercolour, his travels taking him to Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine and more. His reportage illustration is the 'art of travel' at its most
An extraordinary desert traveller and social anthropologist bursts all the cliches as she takes us on a journey into the heart of the Sahara to reveal its complex human history. Instead of an imagined city of gold, Judit
The German documentary photographer drills into the challenges and opportunities of making work that matters, for the New York Times , New Yorker , ZEIT and more. A fascinating insight into a photographer at the top of t
The British author talks about his latest book, Lone Wolf — following in the footsteps of a wolf named Slavc, who crosses the Alps from Slovenia to the Italian Dolomites in search of a mate.
The journalist and biographer Lance Richardson takes on a titan of American literature, Peter Matthiessen — novelist, naturalist, Zen teacher, one-time CIA agent, and author of one of the classic travel books of the 20th
The South African author, explorer and conservationist takes us on a magnetic river journey through the great spine of Africa. His storytelling leads us into the dreamscape of 'Ghost Elephants' — Werner Herzog's new film
The Nigerian author talks about two books: one a journey across his homeland reaching for fragments of history from his nation's civil war, the other a powerful dreamscape evoking the cities of the Sahel, from N'Djamena
In Greyhound , the Canadian-Irish author Joanna Pocock takes us on a journey across America by bus, in a truly modern blend of memoir, reportage, and the literary imagination.
The American master of biography talks about the subject of his most recent obsession: the Scottish traveller, South Seas adventurer and prose genius, Robert Louis Stevenson. To the likes of Henry James and Italo Calvino
On a far-reaching journey from Savannah to the Arctic Circle, we experience the joys (and fears) of night travel as told by one of the great contemporary travel writers on railways. This time, the focus is on sleeper tra
Lyse Doucet, the BBC's Chief International Correspondent, discusses her first major book, The Finest Hotel in Kabul . An instant Sunday Times bestseller, it tells the story of the last 50 years of Afghan history through
On journeys through Central Asia, Turkey, Ukraine, the South Caucasus, Russia, the Baltics and Poland, Caroline Eden reveals the kitchen's unique ability to tell intimate human stories. This episode — discussing her memo
A father's death, a Romany taboo, and a childhood obsession with Plato's myth about the lost city of Atlantis drives award-winning author Damian Le Bas on a quest to find meaning in sunken ruins around the world. The res
Discussing Anima , the final book in her decade-long quartet, awardwinning author and poet Kapka Kassabova takes us on a journey into a wild corner of the Balkans to meet the the last true pastoralists of Europe. This is
Under a Metal Sky: A Journey Through Rocks is another travel writing classic from Philip Marsden. Journeying across Europe, from Cornwall to Georgia, he tells a fascinating story about the interconnectedness of rocks, me
Robert Macfarlane speaks about his new book, Is a River Alive? In a powerful imaginative and physical journey, he takes us from well-worship in Cambridgeshire to an Ecuadorian cloud forest, to an Indian mega-city, finish
British writer Rob Cowen speaks about his new book, The North Road, collapsing over 7,000 years of history with the present moment on a 400-mile journey through Britain. Along the way, he encounters bones, bigotries, hig
Filmmaker Bruce Parry talks about his return to the BBC with a new three-part series named after his original breakthrough TV documentary 'Tribe'. He explores how much there is still to learn from Indigenous peoples — an
Norwegian polar explorer, author and publisher, Erling Kagge, speaks about his new book, The North Pole: The History of an Obsession. In a lively conversation, he and Sophy discuss the difference between Norwegian and Br
Tom Parker
author of "Avoiding the Terrorist Trap: Why Respecting Human Rights is the Key to Defeating Terrorism" · Hubble Technology
1 appearance on this show
Adam Weymouth
author of Lone Wolf
1 appearance on this show
Monisha Rajesh
1 appearance on this show
Lyse Doucet
Chief International Correspondent · BBC
1 appearance on this show
Robert Macfarlane
Professor at Cambridge · Cambridge University
1 appearance on this show
Bruce Parry
1 appearance on this show
Erling Kagge
1 appearance on this show
James Rebanks
shepherd, farmer, author
1 appearance on this show
Dr. Jeff Young
retired high school teacher, artist, member of WoodGreen’s Seniors Advisory Council · Planned Pethood International
1 appearance on this show
Jon Lee Anderson
The New Yorker
1 appearance on this show
Tharik Hussain
travel writer turned historian
1 appearance on this show
Gail Simmons
judge and executive producer of Mikey's favorite show
1 appearance on this show
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