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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12. Chas Newkey-Burden: Celebrity Biographer on...
As a best-selling celebrity biographer for Adele, Amy Winehouse, Justin Bieber, Simon Cowell, Michael Jackson, Paris Hilton, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie and many more, Chas Newkey-Burden has some wonderful travel tales to tell. He’s interviewed...
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11. Dame Helena Morrissey; Nine Children, Execu...
Nine children to organise takes some, well, organisation, but whom better to negotiate such a feat than City superstar Dame Helena Morrissey. One of only a few women to have been CEO of an investment bank, she’s a champion of gender equality and...
38 min
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10. Adam Groffman; American travel blogger from...
Having quit his job some years ago to travel full-time Adam, through his blog and website Travels of Adam, is living this dream. On this episode Adam talks about 50 or more countries he’s visited – from camping with Bedouins in the desert in...
32 min
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9. Emdad Rahman; Building Wells in Ghana, Life ...
London born Emdad Rahman, is a man who, although he has a day job helping kids stay in school, dedicates pretty much all of his spare time to raising money for charity – work that sees him building wells in Ghana, helping at orphanages in Morocco...
35 min
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8. Eamonn Holmes: Belfast in the War-Zone Years...
We’re very excited to have one of Britain’s best-loved broadcasters on this episode of the Big Travel Podcast. He grew up in what was essentially a war zone in Belfast, Northern Ireland, has travelled extensively with seminal programmes such as...
30 min
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7. Hannah Martin; Make-Up Artist and Social Med...
On this episode Hannah Martin – make-up artist to the stars, YouTube and Instagram star – tells us about travelling on the pro team with Bobbi Brown, negotiating cultural differences in China where her simple solution was to just eat everything...
36 min
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6. Major Kenneth Hames MBE; Travel in War, Para...
Major Ken Hames MBE is an adventurer and explorer in every sense. One of the aims with the podcast is to dig out diverse views of the world we live in and on today’s episode Major Hames tells incredible stories of being stuck in mine fields when at...
37 min
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5. Ian Royce; TV’s Favourite Warm-Up Act on Tou...
You’ve got to be seriously funny to be Simon Cowell’s go-to funny man. As the comedian in charge of warming up audiences for the X Factor, Britain’s Got Talent, America’s Got Talent and much more Ian Royce has entertained people the world...
38 min
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4. Mollie Hughes; Climbing Everest, Overcoming ...
On the 16th May 2017, at 4:45am, in minus 35°C, Mollie Hughes reached the summit of Mount Everest from the North side. Aged just 26 this was her second time at peak of Everest, she became the youngest woman in the world and the first English woman to...
29 min
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3. Fabio; Brixton Pirate Radio to the BBC, Craz...
A pioneer of drum ‘n’ bass and jungle Fabio is one of the UK’s best known DJ’s in his field and has been called one of the best DJs in the world. He’s been at the forefront of dance, rave and jungle for over two decades – from pirate radio...
37 min
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2: Lucy Siegle; The Best Eco-Resorts, Disney Li...
Lucy Siegle’s passion for the planet is infectious. Her work has taken her to everywhere from of the poorest parts of the world, in the fabric factories of Bangladesh, to the most glamorous of red carpets at the Oscars. She’s an award winning...
42 min
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1: Paul Ross; Chasing the Mafia in Sicily, Gett...
Witty, entertaining, self-deprecating yet obviously enormously clever, it’s hard to describe the powerhouse of conversation that is Paul Ross. His career in broadcasting encompasses pretty much every radio station in the UK and seminal TV shows such...
37 min