How has travel shaped your life? BBC broadcaster Rajan Datar asks the world's most fascinating people how travel made them who they are. travelthatmademe.substack.com
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Signup to Generate a PitchHow has travel shaped your life? BBC broadcaster Rajan Datar asks the world's most fascinating people how travel made them who they are.
Recent episodes include "From Snow Cranes to War Planes: The Stories of Season One" (2 October 2026, 28 minutes), "Why the Best Travel Means Losing Yourself" (10 September 2026, 35 minutes), and "What Travel Does To Your Mind" (3 September 2026, 35 minutes).
Travel That Made Me publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 38 minutes across 14 episodes.
Booking probability for Travel That Made Me is 28%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Travel That Made Me requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Travel That Made Me's contact route on record: public web form.
Travel That Made Me is a society podcast with 14 episodes published.
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<p>A package holiday to Moscow. Cranes circling a Buddhist monastery. A one-way ticket to Jamaica. A mob in Lebanon. Death row in the Caribbean. Bombs falling over Afghanistan.</p><p>For our Season One finale, Rajan...
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<p>Colin Thubron once sat in a Soviet customs office watching a KGB officer read his travel notes, unable to tell whether the book he had spent years building was about to be confiscated forever. The officer looked up...
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<p>Why does travel change some people, while leaving others exactly as they were?</p><p>In this episode, Rajan speaks to Dr Andrew Stevenson, psychologist and author of The Psychology of Travel, about how travel only...
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<p>A man walked into a meeting room in the Bahamas trembling, convinced he was being taken to the gallows. He was actually there to meet his lawyer. Three weeks later, he was executed anyway. The law that might have...
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<p>Snow cranes that circle a Bhutanese monastery prayer pole exactly three times before migrating to Siberia, in sync with monks who emerge to chant at the moment the birds arrive, is not a local legend. A Berkeley...
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<p>On her first morning in an Antarctic field camp, Sara Wheeler watched a scientist come sprinting across the ice, wind pants around his ankles. Why? A seal had surfaced through the hole beneath the camp toilet. She’d...
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<p>Mandy Hickson was accepted onto RAF pilot training, in her own words, as a “test case,” to see how far she’d get before she failed. Instead, she became one of a handful of women to fly combat missions on the...
<p>With £500 left in the bank and a failing business, Lee Thompson flew to Brazil, doorstepped a church, and convinced the archdiocese to hand over the keys to Christ the Redeemer. Then he climbed inside the statue and...
<p>He got the lowest possible grade in gymnastics. Then he cycled to Africa.</p><p>Swedish explorer Johan Ernst Nilson joins Rajan Datar on Travel That Made Me to trace a 30-year odyssey sparked not with ambition, but...
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<p>She visited every country on earth, becoming the first Black woman to do so. But the real reason she did it only became clear years later.</p><p>Jessica Nabongo joins Rajan Datar on Travel That Made Me to trace a...
<p>He grew up without citizenship, without a passport, and with a burning rage after his brother died after being tortured in a military cell. Then, at eighteen, Aziz Abu-Sarah did something almost nobody in his...
<p>Some people are just made differently. Paul Simonon certainly is. From smashing his bass on stage, which would become the most famous album cover in punk to cooking spaghetti for inmates in a Greenland jail - Paul...
<p>What's it like to be a high-profile journalist, travelling around the world, seeing international events and wars from a first-hand perspective? </p><p>This conversation is with Lyse Doucet, the BBC's Chief...
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<p>How has travel shaped your life? Travel That Made Me is a weekly podcast about how travel made some of the world’s most fascinating and incredible people who they are. From musicians to Nobel Prize winners, explorers...
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