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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87. Bonnie Rakhit; Fashion, Luxury Travel, Inst...
Fashion editor turned travel guru aka has an enviable job, combining luxury travel and fashion but having been bullied badly as a child her aim now is to start using her platform to raise awareness. Bonnie and Lisa talk Instagram and blogging,...
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86. Foreign Correspondent Humphrey Hawksley; Ex...
Humphrey Hawksley's work as a BBC foreign correspondent has taken him to crises on every continent. He been expelled from Sri Lanka, had death threats from several extreme regimes and traced Graham Greene’s footsteps in Sierra Leone . His...
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85. India Hicks; Family, Bahamian Island Life, ...
Entrepreneur and style icon has lived an extraordinary life so far. The daughter of designer David Hicks and granddaughter of Lord and Lady Mountbatten (and related to everyone from Prince Philip to Queen Victoria), she ran away, of sorts, to a...
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84. Nicky Kelvin; The Points Guy UK on Mongolia...
The face of , a website showing us how to get the most from points and miles whose has over 75 million unique visitors a year. Nicky Kelvin’s own travel journey started with cheap flights courtesy of his cabin crew sister and moved on to climbing...
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83. Dr Mandeep Rai; Global Values Expert on 150...
Exploring the hearts, minds, and traditions of cultures and people around the world is Dr Mandeep Rai’s passion and in her new book (recommended by the Dalai Lama no less!) and indeed on this episode we question what makes us who we are…why the...
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82. The Big Travel Podcast CHRISTMAS 2019 SPECIAL!
It's the Big Travel Podcast Christmas Special! It's been a great year for the podcast, hitting the top slot in Apple Podcasts travel here in the UK several times and also charting high in many of the 160 countries we have listeners around the world....
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81. Cosmopolitan Magazine Travel Editor Amanda ...
Sometimes travel can be just pure fun and Amanda Statham, glossy magazines travel editor, honeymoon expert and happy camper-van-owner, has made the fun side of travel her life’s work so far. She’s dived with sharks in the Galapagos, tracked rare...
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80. In New York with Film-Maker Will Francome; ...
We’re in Brooklyn with documentary maker talking about filming on location worldwide and everything from capital punishment, the American criminal justice system, the people who get let off death row, orphanages in Kenya, standing knee deep in sh*t...
34 min
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79. In Tuscany with Paola Maggiulli, The Tiny I...
In in Italy Lisa and Anglo-Italian food writer, cook and presenter Paola Maggiulli, aka have spent the day exploring Siena. Paola was brought up in London with a South American mother and Italian father and spent most of her childhood in the...
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78. On Location in Madrid with James Blick, Tap...
An ‘on location’ episode! Lisa is in , a busy and traditional tapas bar in in central Madrid, with from and the ‘ YouTube channel talking Spanish food, culture, history, beer, lamb neck glands, New Zealanders drinking in Shepherd’s Bush,...
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77. Dom Joly; Childhood in a Beirut Warzone, Pi...
For comedian Dom Joly, travel is in the blood. Born in Beirut he had what in his recent book, , he describes as a curiously paradoxical childhood between a posh Oxford boarding school and a warzone. He dreamt of being a foreign correspondent, for his...
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76. Mimi Aye; Burmese Food Critic on Mandalay I...
Mimi’s Aye’s effervescent observations about food have gained her a large following online and her new recipe book tells wonderful tales of a childhood spent between Burma and Kent. She’s been shadowed by by the ‘Military Informer’ on family...
35 min
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75. John Herrington; NASA Astronaut (Yes Really...
NASA astronaut John Herrington became the first ever Native American to travel to space during a historic mission to the International Space Station. He lives in the Idaho wilderness, flies his own plane, has cycled over 4000 miles cross-country...
36 min
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74. Rhik Samadder; A Bangkok Sex Hotel Epiphany...
Waking up in a Bangkok sex hotel with his mum on his 30th birthday, Christmas Day, with no money and nothing to do but talk, lead to an epiphany for writer, actor and broadcaster, Rhik Samadder. He writes about battling depression and much more in his...
40 min
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73. The Arabian Wanderess, Esra Alhamal; Iran, ...
Known as the Arabian Wandress, travel blogger and artist Esra Alhamal is this week’s guest talking about what it’s really like to grow up as a female in Saudi Arabia, the beauty of Islamic architecture and her travels as what she calls a Muslim...
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72. Best-Selling Novelist Fiona Neill on Salvad...
As a foreign correspondent for Reuters, best-selling novelist Fiona Neill worked with Salvadorean refugees in Nicaragua, learnt to make jewellery in the Andean mountains of Peru and travelled all over writing reports on civil war refugees. She...
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71. Graeme Simsion; The Rosie Project, El Camin...
With the publishing phenomenon of and follow-up over 5 million copies worldwide, the final of Graeme Simsion’s trilogy, , is out now. There’s a proposed Hollywood adaptation in the works and even Bill Gates . Travel is an integral part of...
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70. Andy "The Viking" Fordham; Legendary Darts ...
Legendary darts champion Andy "The Viking" Fordham is as much known for his darts skills as he is for being the larger than life British sportsman the UK took to their hearts. Darts has taken him all over the world; parties in Vegas,...
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69. Rob Da Bank; Festival Promoter, DJ & Record...
Rob Da Bank started as a music journalist, reviewing the biggest bands, superclubs and DJs all over the UK. He’s had his own show on BBC Radio 1 and is the co-founder of Bestival & Camp Bestival. He’s a massive fan of travel – whether...
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68. Iain Lee; Eating Pig’s Vagina for I’m a Cel...
With a show on talkRADIO with the lovely Katherine Boyle – aka Flippin’ Kath, Iain Lee goes on tour, podcasts, has a TV show recorded from his bedroom and he’s a proper cult figure in radio. He’s eaten camel brains and a pig’s vagina for...
43 min
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67. Best-Selling Writer and Clockwork Orange's ...
Carol Drinkwater has sold over a million books about her life on an Olive Farm in the South of France. She was the kinky nurse in A Clockwork Orange, James Herriot’s wife Helen in hit TV show All Creatures Great and Small and writes beautifully...
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66. Biker and Producer Antonia Bollingbroke-Ken...
Antonia Bollingbroke-Kent balances a life of - big adventures with producing wonderful TV shows such as Joanna Lumley’s Silk Road Adventures. She once drove a bright pink Tuk Tuk from Bangkok to Brighton, did battle with 1000 semi-wild Mongolian...
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65. Adventurer and Author Alastair Humphreys on...
Alastair Humphreys left Yorkshire one day on his bike and didn’t return for four years, cycling through an incredible 60 countries. He’s walked across India, rowed across the Atlantic, run six marathons through the Sahara, crossed Iceland on foot,...
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64. William Sutcliffe; 'Are You Experienced?' A...
William Sutcliffe’s hilariously cynical take on backpackers and travellers, 'Are You Experienced?' is still inspiring globe-trotters all over the world. He instantly regretted a solo trip to Pakistan to get the train to Beijing, was horrified by the...
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63. Adventure Traveller Sam McManus; Ditching C...
Having done what many people dream of – ditching a corporate career to travel, the proud founder of adventure travel company Yellowwood Adventures, Sam McManus, has created the life of his dreams travelling to remote parts of Ethiopia, Iran, India,...
40 min