'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.
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Signup to Generate a Pitch'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.
Gone To Timbuktu is hosted by Sophy Roberts. The show has published 36 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Series 3 Ep 12: Tom Parker" (24 April 2026, 62 minutes), "Series 3 Ep 11: George Butler" (27 March 2026, 44 minutes), and "Series 3 Ep 10: Judith Scheele" (6 March 2026, 60 minutes).
Gone To Timbuktu publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 51 minutes across 36 episodes.
Booking probability for Gone To Timbuktu is 31%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Gone To Timbuktu requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Gone To Timbuktu's contact route on record: verified email.
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Sophy Roberts hosts Gone To Timbuktu, a society show with 36 episodes published.
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Episode #12
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...
Episode #11
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...
Episode #10
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...
Episode #9
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...
Episode #8
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.
Episode #7
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...
Episode #6
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...
Episode #5
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...
Episode #4
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.
Episode #3
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...
Episode #2
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...
Episode #1
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...
Episode #12
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...
Episode #11
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...
Episode #10
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...
Episode #9
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...
Episode #8
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...
Episode #7
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...
Episode #6
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 —...
Episode #5
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...
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