The Big Travel Podcast
The Big Travel Podcast: Exploring Life-Stories Through Travel. Taking you on a journey of discovery, with a wonderfully diverse selection of characters, The Big Travel Podcast explores life-stories in travel; from childhoods with little money but a spirit for exploration to fabulous tales of exotic climes and incredible adventures. Celebrities, authors, sports people, politicians, famous faces from TV, radio, music, stage and screen, SAS soldiers, adventurers and ordinary people taking extraordinary journeys tell their story of life through travel, and through this, The Big Travel Podcast finds out what it is about travel that inspires us, that makes us laugh, love, cry and sometimes cringe yet above all keep travelling. The Big Travel Podcast is hosted by Lisa Francesca Nand, travel journalist, presenter, writer and filmmaker.
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138. Foy Vance; Childhood Church Building in Ok...
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137. Jamie Klingler; Reclaim These Streets, Tak...
47 min
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136. Jennifer Nand; Liverpool, The Cavern and W...
41 min
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135. Hannah Bourne-Taylor; Ghana, Conservation ...
44 min
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134. Marc 'The Vet' Abraham OBE; Mumbai Slum-Do...
67 min
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133. Cally Beaton; Vodka with Madonna, Panthers...
57 min
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132. International Travel Nanny, Shada Lambert;...
International Travel Nanny, Shada Lambert; Celebrity Clients, Private Planes, Swimming Pools in Hotel Rooms and a Big Jamaican Family
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131. Abandoned Places Explorer ‘Greg Abandoned’...
53 min
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130. Alex Kapranos; Growing up Half Greek, Rock...
52 min
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129. Minnie Driver; California Contrasts, Barba...
43 min
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128. Dr. Rebecca Johnson; Crossing the US in a ...
133 min
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127. Pete Bennett; Big Brother, Peckham Transv...
64 min
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126. Will Bolsover; Natural World Safaris, Big ...
A year spent camping out in the bush in Cameroon led Will Bolsover from Natural World Safaris make travel his life’s work.
31 min
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125. Christmas Special 2021; Sathnam Sanghera, ...
Authors Anne Sebba on the Royal abdication, Sathnam Sanghera on a dismal Christmas restaurant, Lisa Jewell singing Boney M in Barbados, adventurer Jamie Douglas-Hamilton rowing to the Antarctic, satirist Matt Forde in an NYC football bar,...
28 min
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124. Firouz FarmanFarmaian; Escaping Tehran, Ka...
Born in Tehran, the descendent of a nomadic tribe traced back to the 1400s, Contemporary Artist Firouz FarmanFarmaian's family scattered after the Islamic Revolution, from Paris to Marrakesh and a houseboat on a lily-covered lake in...
37 min
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123. On Location in Marbella Old Town with Tour...
Marbella, known for its glitz and glamour, is one of the most well-known places in Spain and the old town is one of our favourite parts. Join Lisa on a journey through the maze of Marbella's 16th Century cobbled lanes surrounding the old 'Orange...
28 min
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122. Matt Forde; Billy Connolly in New York, Li...
Comedian, political satirist and Spitting Image star Matt Forde talks accosting Billy Connolly in New York, 'dying' on stage in Luxemborg, pints of Carling in ex-pat clubs in Bahrain, Nick Leeson's luxury hotel dash around the world, spending 3 months...
38 min
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121. Sam McManus; Adventure Travel When the Wor...
Just as the world was closing Sam McManus from YellowWood Adventures took a daunting gamble and hopped on a plane to Costa Rica. We talk about how the pandemic can change travel (even for the better), tourism being...
33 min
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120. UK TRAVEL UPDATE; Travel Opens Up, Vaccine...
Finally some good news, at least for those people who have had two UK administered vaccines. From 19th July we can now go to amber list countries and not have to quarantine on return. BUT at the moment this is just for UK administered vaccines meaning...
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119. UK TRAVEL UPDATE; New Rules, Traffic Light...
A Big Travel Podcast special on the latest UK Travel Update; the new rules, the changes in the traffic light ratings, vaccinations soon to be taken into account and much more. A ten minute episode of essential listening.
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118. Olly Mann; Guns On Trucks in Malawi, Swim-...
Olly Mann, from Answer Me This podcast fame, his new and much more, loves nothing more than researching trivia especially with travel. We talk Wrigley’s chewing gum and decapitation, leaving your baby outside a pub, people who get erections...
52 min
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117. Huw Wyn; Arabian Nights in Cairo, Hitchin...
Into The Wild Festival promoter Huw Wyn grew up in his mother’s hotel in Wales then moved to Spain. Lisa and Huw talk growing up feral in Andalucia, hitchhiking across Europe, dropping fish-packing in the...
44 min
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116. Anne Sebba; Parisian Women and Nazis, Film...
The author of one of Lisa’s favourite books, Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved and Died in the 1940s, Anne Sebba explores the lives of women ‘writers and fighters’. As a journalist and author she's worked in...
58 min
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115. Lisa Jewell; Family Roots in India, a Diff...
Internationally best-selling author Lisa Jewell is a Londoner through and through, yet her Anglo-Indian mother had a rather traumatic upbringing in India and Pakistan. Lisa’s travelled far and wide – tracing her family roots in India, having...
36 min
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114. Sathnam Sanghera; Empire, Racism and Legac...
It was winning a Radio 1 competition age 15 to fly to LA that first piqued Sathnam Sanghera’s taste for travel and indeed journalism. His latest book EmpireLand: How Modern Britain is Shaped by its Imperial Past explores how the British Empire,...
35 min