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38. Poland - a country in the moon

January 10th, 2010 · No Comments

 
icon for podpress  Moran: A Country in the Moon [21:07m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

My guest on this week’s programme is Michael Moran, author of A Country in the Moon: Travels in Search of the Heart of Poland.
Michael first visited Poland in the early 1990s after the collapse of Communism as leader of an ill-assorted crew of British teachers charged with introducing the Poles to the delights of market […]

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Tags: biography and memoir · history and politics · humour · podcasts · travel

36. Berlin - city of “eternal becoming”

November 10th, 2009 · 1 Comment

 
icon for podpress  Reyes and Derbyshire: Berlin [15:42m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This week’s podcast features an interview with Heather Reyes, co-founder of Oxygen Books, and co-editor of the latest addition to their City-Lit series, which appropriately enough in the week which marks the twentieth anniversary of the Berlin Wall coming down, paints a portrait in words of Berlin.
Although there are plenty of old favourites such […]

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Tags: history and politics · podcasts · travel

27. Alice on the Indus

July 7th, 2009 · 1 Comment

 
icon for podpress  Alice Albinia: Empires of the Indus: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

On Monday night Alice Albinia won the Dolman Travel Book Prize for her book, Empires of the Indus, in which she traces her remarkable journey from the river delta near Karachi to its source in Tibet.
Just after the winner was announced, I spoke to Alice about her book. Click above to find out why the […]

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Tags: history and politics · podcasts · travel