Episode 065: George Butler, Drawn Across Borders
George Butler is an award-winning artist and illustrator who specialises in documenting reportage and current affairs in ink rather than with a camera. In 2012 he walked into Syria from Turkey where h...
15 Mars 20211h 5min
Episode 064: Niall McCann, The Conservation Frontline
Describing himself as a "biologist with a lot of other interests", Dr Niall McCann works on the frontline of conservation, and in his spare time has skied across Greenland, rowed the Atlantic and cycl...
8 Mars 20211h 25min
Episode 063: Steph Jeavons, Starting Afresh
Steph Jeavons is an author, journalist and adventurer from Wales. The first person to circumnavigate the globe and ride a motorbike on all seven continents, Steph has always led an unconventional and ...
2 Mars 20211h 13min
Episode 062: Leon McCarron, Slow Travel
Leon McCarron is a writer, broadcaster and adventurer - originally from Northern Ireland, he now calls Iraq home. Leon’s championing of ‘slow travel’ has taken him across China on foot, walking throug...
22 Feb 20211h 10min
Episode 061: Robert Swan, The Last Great Wilderness
Robert Swan is the first person in history to reach both the North and South Poles on foot, and undertook both of these pioneering expeditions in an era before GPS or satellite phones. He has gone on ...
15 Feb 20211h 5min
Episode 060: Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment
Cal Flyn is a writer and journalist who lives on Orkney, off the north coast of Scotland. Her latest book tells the story of a dozen abandoned places around the world, from Chernobyl to the volcanic C...
8 Feb 20211h 13min
Episode 059: Ed Caesar, Things You Have Not Dreamed Of
Acclaimed journalist and author Ed Ceasar has written on subjects as varied as gorillas in the Congo, an imprisoned Russian billionaire and the world’s longest tennis match. Most recently, his book 'T...
1 Feb 20211h 8min
Episode 058: Matt Sharman, To Humbly Go
There are many reasons to venture into the mountains. Matt Sharman is the antithesis of the ‘conqueror’. A gentle but accomplished mountaineer, this episode of the podcast details Matt’s life as a mou...
12 Dec 20201h 22min
