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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37. Eddie Nestor MBE; BBC London Icon on Hackne...
From a council estate in East London, the son of Afro-Caribbean immigrants, BBC London’s Eddie Nestor talks Hackney hipsters, Windrush, tracing his African roots, hanging out with Idris Elba, getting accosted in a dark alley in Thailand and – in...
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36. Kirsty Wark; From Newsnight to the Sleeper ...
As the presenter of one of the UK’s most important news programmes, BBC2’s Newsnight, journalist Kirsty Wark is famed for her no-nonsense attitude. She’s arranged her working life around her love of Scotland, was inspired by the Isle of Arran to...
29 min
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35: Helen Zaltzman; Podcasting from a Tasmanian...
Surprisingly for a conversation that includes death, intensive care, cannibalism, colonial guilt, poverty, fleeing the Holocaust and being kicked in the shin by small children Helen Zaltzman and Lisa manage to laugh their way through this episode with...
40 min
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34. Felicity Morse; Journalist and Life Coach o...
Spending much of her teens wiped out with Chronic Fatigue meant when Felicity Morse DID get better she wanted to get out and travel, first working on super yachts in the South of France - from which time she has the craziest of stories. From sailing...
40 min
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33. Raynor Winn; From Homelessness to Author, B...
The bailiffs took their family home in the same week Raynor Winn and husband Moth were told – completely out of the blue – Moth had a terminal illness. Destitute and homeless, they decided to backpack along the windswept cliffs of the South West...
33 min
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32. Paul Stidolph; Towing Ice from Antarctica, ...
Antarctica stores enough frozen water to raise global sea levels by 58 metres. Why wait for this to melt when it could provide much needed water to drought-ridden areas and save lives? This is a question doctor-turned-author Paul Stidolph asks in his...
29 min
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31. Kait Borsay; Presenter and Podcaster on Rio...
Whether reporting on the Brazil World Cup, the Canada Women’s World Cup or dodging tear gas in a football brawl in France Kait Borsay takes everything in her stride. Her podcast – the Offside Rule – has been voted one of the best sports podcasts...
36 min
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30. Anna Hart; Traveller and Writer on Ice Roa...
A funny, raw and honest chat with traveller and writer Anna Hart. A Vicar’s daughter from Belfast, Anna’s adventurous spirit was ignited by her childhood in the back streets of Singapore and been untameable ever since. She’s seen Shakespearean...
37 min
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29. Jane Garvey; BBC Radio 4 Presenter on Reluc...
BBC Radio 4’s Jane Garvey has travelled extensively, albeit under duress. She went backpacking as far as Belgium, didn’t have a great time reporting from the Olympics in Atlanta and really doesn’t fancy going anywhere exotic like India. She does...
35 min
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28. Sunsets, Stitches and Swimming with Dolphin...
School’s out for summer and for kids that means fun, sun, getting locked in a kids club and left behind in Mexico, falling off a slide and needing stitches in Turkey, free Pringles in Greece and going to Spain because 'we can't afford to go anywhere...
27 min
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27. Paul Blanchard; Media Masters Podcast Host ...
Based in London, New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco award-winning reputation management consultant and host of the popular Media Masters Podcast Paul Blanchard has the dream life of business travel. He loves driving across the USA, listening to...
38 min
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26. Andrea McLean; Loose Women Host on Sugar Pl...
As one of the most famous women on UK TV, at the helm of one of our most poplar daytime shows, Andrea McLean is the Glasgow girl with the accent that no-one can quite place. Witty, warm and highly entertaining, Andrea grew up on a sugar cane...
40 min
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25. Giles Paley Phillips; Award-Winning Author ...
Growing up in a small town on the Sussex coast was idyllic for children’s author and musician Giles Paley Phillips until tragedy struck and changed the course of his life. As a teenager in a small town he found the dodgiest clubs, yet soon learned...
35 min
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24. Simon Calder; Mr Travel Expert Himself on…E...
Travel guru, guide-book author, journalist and the man to the whom world turns for anything travel related; Simon Calder is the Man Who Pays His Way, has hitchhiked all over the world and is also the man who over 12 years ago gave podcast host, Lisa,...
52 min
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23. Edith Bowman; TV and Radio Presenter on Bol...
Brought up in the family hotel in Fife, Scotland, Edith Bowman has travel running through her veins. She’s hung out in New York with the world’s biggest bands, been caught in a snowstorm in the salt flats of Bolivia, shot guns in Texas (which she...
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22. Chris Nand; India and Fiji Under British Co...
A fascinating insight into the South Pacific and what is was like to grow up under British Colonial rule. Living in a house made of bamboo the kids' playground was the lush fields of the sugar cane plantation, mango trees, the winding river where they...
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21. Sonali Shah: BBC1’s Escape to the Country P...
Travelling the breadth of the UK in her enviable job as the presenter of BBC1’s Escape to the Country is more calming than Sonali Shah’s previous travels which included making a ‘kidnap plan’ when filming in Afghanistan, needing armed guards...
35 min
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20. George Galloway; Controversial politician o...
From humble beginnings in a slum tenement in the Scottish City of Dundee, George Galloway has risen to become one of the UK’s most well known and also most controversial politicians. His self-confessed radical views have seen him banned from Canada,...
39 min
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19. The Big Travel Podcast; Special Episode fro...
Live from a beach bed on the coast of Andalucia, Spain, on this special half-term episode Lisa tells us all about The Big Travel Podcast including guests so far and guests to come. Listen out for some adorable singing at the end!
13 min
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18. Clive Stafford Smith; Anti-Death Penalty Ac...
The injustice of the death penalty is something to which Clive Stafford Smith, one of Britain and America’s most powerful lawyers, has dedicated his whole working life. Clive describes Guantanamo Bay (staff have a McDonald’s!), death rows across...
36 min
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17. Kate Mosse; Multi-Million Selling Author on...
Kate Mosse's vivid, evocative portrayals of landscapes come alive in her descriptions of the land and history that inspire her best-selling books, as you might expect from someone who’s sold over 5 million copies of her novels across the globe. The...
37 min
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16. Millie Knight; Blind Paralympic Skier on Ru...
Millie can tell exactly what type of snow she's on by the swish of her sighted-guide’s skis. Since losing her sight aged 6 she relies on what she can hear, feel and sense – whether finding her way to class at school or whizzing downhill at over...
32 min
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15. Charlie Webster; At Death’s Door in Rio, th...
Sports presenter Charlie Webster arrived at our interview cut and bruised from a fall the previous day during the London Marathon...but this is nothing compared to the 3000 mile cycle from London to Rio which ended in her being in a coma and given 24...
41 min
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14. DJ Nihal Arthanayake; Buddhist Sri Lankan i...
The transition from rap artist and Asian Beats DJ to serious journalist with strong opinions has seemed, at least on the surface, pretty seamless for DJ Nihal going from the BBC’s biggest pop station – BBC Radio 1 – to hosting key news...
36 min
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13. Baylen Leonard; Tennessee Trailer Parks, Ch...
Not making it big on Broadway might have been frustrating for Baylen Leonard at the time but it was the UK’s gain as, despite having grown up in relative poverty in the Tennessee foothills, he’s now a well known radio presenter, DJ and broadcaster...
38 min