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The MarshyCastEp 82. Kai Widdrington, Gary Stringer (Reef), Ashley James & Lisa Francesca NandSend us a text It’s time for another episode of The MarshyCast! This week’s episode comes hot off the heels of an incredible evening at the Radio Academy Awards, where I joined my fellow Express FM team members as we were nominated for Best Local Radio Station. We may have been the smallest station in the room, but being recognised alongside the industry’s biggest hitters was a win in itself — and a night to remember! Of course, don’t forget you can still catch my live shows on Express FM
2025-05-1750 min
Jimmy Petruzzi Podcasts interviews and Hypnosis, Guided meditations, and chill out tunesJimmy Petruzzi interviews Lisa Francesca Nand (Travel Writer and Broadcaster)Jimmy Petruzzi interviews Lisa Francesca Nand (Travel Writer and Broadcaster)
Discussing Half of Brits haven’t booked their summer holiday yet
2025-05-0114 min
The Big Travel PodcastIn Madrid with Simon Hunter; Madrid Newsrooms, Old Sherry Bars and Benidorm Sun Lounger WarsPicture the scene... Lisa and Simon Hunter (Madrid based journalist) are in the centre of Madrid at the fabulous Ocean Drive Hotel with a balcony over- looking over the Opera square having a chat about politics, celebs, nightclubs, tapas and more before heading up to the rooftop pool for a Vermouth...On this episode we talk..the short trip that turned into a lifetime love of Madrid, becoming the go-to person for British news on Spanish TV, big stories in the busy newsroom in El Pais, the surprise abdication of King Juan Carlos, Spain’s mad politics, the eerie qu...
2024-06-1448 minThe Big Travel PodcastHassan Said; Maldivian Resorts, Island Culture and the Importance of Loving Your CommunityWe’re back for our new season and starting with an extra special episode recorded in the beautiful Maldivian resort of Dhigali where our presenter Lisa recently spent an idyllic week. Who better to give us a real look at life in the Maldives than resort manager Hassan Saeed who, having dropped out of school age 14 and one of 11 siblings, very quickly had to start start work. We talk growing up in the islands, happy days working in his grandfather’s tin workshop, how the arrival of tourism changed the Maldives, entering ‘a completely different world’ in tourism, spending a year a...
2024-03-0445 minThe Big Travel Podcast159. NEW SEASON IMMINENT!We are happy to announce the imminent arrival of our new season of episodes and as usual we have a few wonderful surprises for you – some on location episiodes from destinations as varied as Copenhagen to the Maldives – some new partners for sponsorship and also a very exciting annoucment as to what Lisa is up to with some travel plans that can also involve you! Yes you. Watch this space. In the meantime feel free to say hello on social media - Lisa Francesca Nand - and subscribe to the podcast so you don't miss us! x
2024-02-1904 min
Moments That Rock with Tony MichaelidesJournalist and podcast host Lisa Francesca Nand shares stories of her love of music that lead to her working with legendary promoter Harvey Goldsmith.This week's guest is journalist and podcast host Lisa Francesca Nand. In this episode she shares her story about being a failed musician that eventually lead her into working with one of the most successful promoters ever, Harvey Goldsmith. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2024-01-0129 minThe Big Travel PodcastRobert Munns; West End Theatre with Madonna, Sailing The Pacific With MS and Life-Changing Conscious DecisionsRobert Munns, CEO of sailing charity Oceans of Hope UK, left the graft and glamour of West End theatre for a life on the seas. He’d not long had a shock diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis when a chance encounter in a harbour changed the course of his future. Rob and Lisa talk West End theatre’s transformation, working with Madonna, happy days sailing the Med, the ‘raw shock’ of his diagnosis, the physical and emotional enormity of sailing across the Pacific (with or without MS!), committing to life again, watching other MS sufferers transform with sailing and how making c...
2023-05-181h 13
Things I Forgot Were Good For MeTravel with Lisa Francesca NandLisa is a journalist specialising in travel. She also makes and presents podcasts including the UK number 1 Big Travel Pod. You will recognise her voice from TV and Radio with the latest comments on all things travel.
2023-03-2438 min
Hashtag Authentic - for creatives, dreamers & business owners onlineBeing afraid of NOT doing it, with Lisa Francesca NandThings we talked about:The way multi-faceted careers can feel piecemeal (especially if parenting is added into the mix), or “like I’m doing five different jobs at once”Factoring in time to play as well as workExploring your home town like a holiday destinationTaking things home from real holidays that you might not expect (like appreciating the simple things, family meals, all your possessions in one suitcase)Avoiding habits of consuming everything and creating nothingMaking connections on Twitter (Lisa says, “I engage with people because I love it”)Pondering the idea that the Internet means we don’t get bored...
2022-12-121h 06The Big Travel PodcastIszi Lawrence; Travelling Nowhere with Shaun Keavney, Decolonising History & Flying Solo to Australia age 6Author, historian, comedian, podcaster and co-presenter of the travel that doesn’t actually go anywhere – ‘Your Place Or Mine’ with the wonderful Shaun Keavney – Izsi Lawrence is on the Big Travel Podcast. Iszi and Lisa talk… Britain’s most fixable landmarks, The British Museum, Ju Jitsu fighting suffragettes, de-colonising history, dinosaurs, earthworms, the slave trade, Charles Darwin, Bovril, flying solo to AUSTRALIA age 6, the Moroccan side of her family and so much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2022-11-1758 minThe Big Travel PodcastCyber Crime Expert Lisa Forte; Battling Somali Pirates, Skyscraper Climbs in Kazakhstan & Descending Deep Into Abandoned MinesCyber Crime Expert, climber and caver Lisa Forte has been voted one of the 100 top women in tech, starting her career plotting against Somalian pirates in the Middle East. Having travelled extensively for both work and fun we talk offending the locals in South Korea, climbing frozen waterfalls in the Alps, scaling skyscraper-height granite in Kazakhstan, spending her 21st birthday on Kilimanjaro, the deeply humble experience of tracing journeys of long-ago Welsh miners deep underground, cyber security, getting attacked by a gang of squirrels and so much more… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit mega...
2022-10-0647 minThe Big Travel PodcastMambo Brothers; Growing up in Ibiza’s Mambo Café, Becoming International DJs and Searching for the Soul‘Something special happens in Ibiza…’ say our guests on this episode and indeed it feels like this is true, especially for these lovely brothers. Born in Ibiza to a Scottish mum and Spanish Dad, with their parents’ Café Mambo attracting world famous faces from music, fashion, stage and screen, Christian and Alan Anadon aka Mambo Brothers, eagerly awaited boxes of the latest vinyls to be delivered from Scotland. We talk about their perpetual childhood on the magical island, touring the world as DJs and getting to know the soul of Brazil, Bali, Australia, Asia, Africa, the Americas, all over...
2022-09-0832 minThe Big Travel PodcastOn location in Ibiza – Hotelier Marc Rahola; From Telephone Operator to Founder, Ibiza’s Contrasts, London’s Notting Hill & What Makes a Hotel EntrepreneurIbizan hotelier Marc Rahola went from hotel telephone exchange boy to founder of a chain of boutique hotels and properties by, in his own words, making a series of happy accidents and mistakes. Od Hotels now have many properties all over Europe including the beautiful Ocean Drive Talamanca where Lisa and Marc have coffee and explore… how a Paris Hotel CD inspired Marc’s boutique hotel concept, expanding to the Cote D’Azure, Madrid, Barcelona, Sevilla, London and more, feeling at home in London’s Notting Hill, gigging with his band, Freddie Mercury and George Michael’s Ibiza, ALL the DJs, r...
2022-08-2536 min
NonCensored10: The Holiday Special, with guest Lisa Francesca NandNonCensored is a weekly round up of Harriet Langley-Swindon's very popular, very real daily radio show, completely non-Censored (but with all of the rubbish edited out).This week, while normal people go on holiday and comedians are getting their shows at the Edinburgh Fringe up and running, Harriet and producer Martin are setting an example to the country by continuing to work, and putting out this holiday special. They're joined by their Diversity Correspondent Eshaan Akbar, who asks Are Holidays Woke?, the Telegraph's Red Wall Correspondent Siobhan Connery to look ahead in the world of politics, and by...
2022-08-0541 minThe Big Travel Podcast136. Jennifer Nand; Liverpool, The Cavern and When John Lennon Spat on her NoseJennifer Nand was just a young teen when the Beatles were at the start of their meteoric rise. Piling into her friend Jenny’s hearse to go watch the bands in The Cavern and other places across the city, hitching lifts home through the Mersey tunnel, being accidentally spat on the nose by none other than John Lennon, watching the debut performances of some of the UK’s most brilliant acts, rebelling on the Mersey Ferry, controversially dating then marrying Lisa's Indian-Fijian Dad and much more. Lisa talks to her mum in a home-coming trip to Liverpool and The Wirr...
2022-06-0245 minThe Big Travel PodcastMarc 'The Vet' Abraham OBE; Mumbai Slum-Dogs, Rescuing Bears in Ukraine, Operations in Thai Temples, Changing the LawMarc Araham, OBE, aka Marc the Vet, was inspired by his Holocaust survivor grandmother to change UK law and dramatically improve how we treat our pets. He’s vaccinated dogs in Mumbai slums, rescued dancing bears in Ukraine, operated in Buddhist temples in post-tsunami Thailand, battled dog-meat farms in South Korea, travelled deep into the Amazon Jungle and even rehabilitated inmates with pit bulls in US prisons. Marc's new book 'Be More Mosquito: How You Can Campaign & Create Change' is out in June 2022. And he even brought donuts round to Lisa’s. What a guy! Learn...
2022-05-051h 11The Big Travel PodcastCally Beaton; Vodka with Madonna, Panthers on the Loose and Joan Rivers’ Life-Changing ApprovalStand-up comedian, star of comedy TV shows and host of the Namaste Mother******s Podcast, Cally Beaton, was a high flying TV exec until Joan Rivers noticed her comedic talent and gave her some life-changing advice. She’s partied at some of the world’s hottest events, knocked back Vodka with Madonna, refused to indulge Mariah’s puppies, narrowly avoided a panther on the loose in South Africa, almost been swallowed by a blizzard in Iceland after a boyfriend dumped her at the airport and much more. Recorded with Lisa in Malaga and Cally live from her laundry cupboard in Ams...
2022-04-211h 00The Big Travel Podcast130. Alex Kapranos; Growing up Half Greek, Rock n Roll Chefs, Moscow Arrests and Colombian Bull’s TesticlesLisa is utterly delighted to have Franz Ferdinand's Alex Kapranos on the podcast to talk about growing up half Greek, the rock and rolls side of cheffing, how Franz Ferdinand partly emerged from a kitchen, Ethiopian instruments, Colombian bull’s testicle maracas, getting arrested as a spy in Moscow, being rushed to hospital in Budapest, learning how to say 'I have a peanut allergy' in every language, breaking down in a Lada on his way to his first Glastonbury and so much more. Franz Ferdinand's greatest hits album Hits To The Head is also out this month. Get...
2022-03-0154 minThe Big Travel PodcastMinnie Driver; California Contrast, Barbados v Boarding School, European Trains and Hawaiian UkulelesA childhood divided between her father’s home in Barbados and the cold grey of a wintery London gave Hollywood actor Minnie Driver a love for the laid-back sunshine of the coast of California. Minnie and Lisa talk America’s contrasts of rich and poor, the philosophy of travel, the highs and lows of boarding school, taking the train across Europe, getting beaten up in a bar in Greece, delivering food to stranded neighbours during the Malibu fires, exploring the Middle East with her documentary-maker partner and how she is happiest strumming away on her ukulele on a shady vera...
2022-02-1545 minThe Big Travel PodcastPete Bennett; Big Brother, Peckham Transvestites, Hollywood Agents, Mexican Chicken-Sacrifices and Celebrating Tourette’sGrowing up on a Peckham council estate with his musician mother and a 'Lizzie-Anne the transvestite' childcarer led to Pete Bennett’s own love of quirk and music Now an actor, director, voice over artist and of course musician (with his band Lovedogz), he first came to public attention in 2006’s Big Brother and really opened up the conversation about Tourette’s Syndrome. Pete tells hilarious stories about the crazy acid trip at a psychedelic rave which gave him a vision that he would win Big Brother, being suckered in by a stoned agent with nefarious intentions in Hollywood, survivin...
2022-01-181h 07The Big Travel PodcastWill Bolsover; Natural World Safaris, Big Cats in Siberia, Little Lizards in Madagascar and the Challenges of Covid-Era TravelA year spent camping out in the bush in Cameroon led Will Bolsover from Natural World Safaris make travel his life’s work. From tracking tigers in Siberia, to finding hidden corners of Madagascar and most recently spending 48 minutes in the Antarctic followed by 11 nights in hotel quarantine…it’s not always straightforward but it certainly sounds absolutely magical. www.naturalworldsafaris.comOn this episode we talk:Launching Will’s own travel podcast for Natural World SafarisAfrica, Asia, Latin America, the Polar Reg...
2022-01-1135 min
The Big Travel PodcastChristmas Special 2021; Sathnam Sanghera, Lisa Jewell, Matt Forde, Anne Sebba, Olly Mann, Greenham Common and moreAuthors Anne Sebba on the Royal abdication, Sathnam Sanghera's dismal Christmas restaurant, Lisa Jewell's Boney M in Barbados, adventurer Jamie Douglas-Hamilton rowing to the Antarctic, satirist Matt Forde in an NYC Irish bar, podcaster Olly Mann’s disappointing LA Santa, artist Firouz FarmanFarmaian Muslim Catholic Christmas in Marrakesh, adventurer Sam McManus's ancient Spanish fiesta, Festival promoter Huw Win's Thai rainforest & Nobel Peace Prize winner Rebecca Johnson's Christmas at Greenham Common. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2021-12-2030 min
The Big Travel PodcastOn Location in Marbella Old Town with Tour Guide Javier GonzalezA journey through the maze of Marbella's 16th Century cobbled lanes surrounding the old 'Orange Square', encountering flamenco singers and opera stars and sampling some of the coast's most wonderful tapas. With tour guide Javier Gonzalez and staying at the stunning Anantara Villa Padierna Palace, with its classical Italian design and sophisticated yet arty vibe.
Lisa stayed at the Anantara Villa Padierna Palace https://www.anantara.com/en/villa-padierna-marbella in Marbella courtesy of Anantara Hotels. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2021-10-1429 min
Let's Go Kickass TodayStarting Out with Acantha Lang, Lisa Francesca Nand and Itte HossainA monthly podcast talking to inspirational people from the fields of Music, Adventure and Culture. In the final episode of the series, I chat to soul and blues singer Acantha Lang about being an independent artist, travel broadcaster Lisa Francesca Nand about starting over in her career, and documentary maker Itte Hossain about freelance life and his film, "Self Isolation Together". Produced, presented and edited by Vicky Carter. Logo Design by: Hannah Eachus Jingle by: Nicola T Chang
2021-05-141h 17
The Big Travel PodcastAnne Sebba; Parisian Women and Nazis, Film Stars in Rome, ‘Communists’ in Sing Sing PrisonThe author of one of Lisa’s favourite books, Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved and Died in the 1940s, Anne Sebba explores the lives of women ‘writers and fighters’. As a journalist and author she's worked in film-star-filled 70s Rome, moved to New York with a baby, camped in the Mexico desert with Wallis Simpson’s free-diving step-son, had her camera film thrown into the Ganges while tracing Mother Theresa and, for her most recent book on Ethel Rosenburg, to Belarus and Sing Sing Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2021-03-1759 min
The Big Travel PodcastLisa Jewell; Family Roots in India, a Different Barbados and How Nothing Beats a Week in LanzaroteInternationally best-selling author Lisa Jewell is a Londoner through and through, yet her Anglo-Indian mother a rather traumatic upbringing in India. Lisa’s travelled far and wide – tracing her family roots in India, having rare-for-the-time childhood holidays in Barbados and was even inspired to centre one novel about an unknown woman sneaking into a posh beach resort in the south of France. But she’s in her holiday element when spending a couple of weeks chilling in a nice hotel in Lanzarote.
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2021-02-2337 min
Dis Is Your LifeLisa Francesca NandJoin Nic Roberts as he sits down with a celebrity guest and look at the ways Disney has had an impact on their life.In this week's show he sits down with writer, journalist and broadcaster Lisa Francesca Nand (@lfnand) as they discussed her favorite movies, songs, characters and more from the world of DisneyContact the show on twitter @DIYLPodcast or email us DIYLPodcast@gmail.com
2020-10-0756 minDis Is Your LifeLisa Francesca NandJoin Nic Roberts as he sits down with a celebrity guest and look at the ways Disney has had an impact on their life.In this week's show he sits down with writer, journalist and broadcaster Lisa Francesca Nand (@lfnand) as they discussed her favorite movies, songs, characters and more from the world of DisneyContact the show on twitter @DIYLPodcast or email us DIYLPodcast@gmail.com
2020-10-0756 min
The Big Travel PodcastJustin Somper: Bestselling Vampirates Author on Australian Beaches, New York’s Studio 54, Magical Coincidences and Not So Magical PrejudicesThe year is 2505. The oceans have risen. A new era of piracy has dawned…Justin Somper’s vision of a future world in the bestselling Vampirates books has been very much influenced by his passion for Australia, which has lead to much exploring and also even his recent wedding on the beach. In the rain. As well as Australia we talk New York’s Studio 54 and Broadway, Washington DC’s homophobic hostel owner, the surrealness of Bangkok, hanging out with Isla Fisher in London and so much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoice
2020-09-1537 min
The Big Travel PodcastLoyd Grossman CBE; 1960s New York, Ecclesiastical Sock Makers and How Food Completes TravelLoyd Grossman, entrepreneur, author and broadcaster is well-known for presenting MasterChef, Through the Keyhole & much more. His passion for history and the arts has led to leading roles many cultural institutions and impeccably researched books. Loyd and Lisa talk food and travel, growing up in a US seaside haven, hippy days in late 60s New York, playing with Jethro Tull and how an elephant in Rome led to his new book about one of Europe’s greatest artists. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2020-09-0141 min
The Big Travel PodcastLemn Sissay MBE; Lancashire Care Homes, Life’s Language of Travel and How Poetry Gave Him WingsLemn Sissay, writer and poet, was taken from his Ethiopian mother at birth and after a stinging rejection from foster parents at 12 spent his childhood in care. He published his first book of poetry age 17 and sold it to striking miners in Lancashire. Although a large part of him will ‘always feel like that rootless kid’, poetry, he says, gave him wings and he began his travels not just around the world but also the both physical and emotional journey to find his birth family. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2020-08-191h 01
The Big Travel PodcastLaura Hamilton; A Place In The Sun, Quarantine, Coffee Shop Owning and The WomblesA Place in the Sun presenter, Laura Hamilton, and Lisa are having coffee in the ‘new normal’ in Spain, masks at the ready, talking property abroad, bargain cave houses, lack of tourists in Spain, Greek idylls, making tea for Dermot O’Leary, getting stuck in Sri Lanka, nerve-wracking Egyptian taxi rides, galloping around the Pyramids in Cairo, skiing after C sections, becoming a postmistress, running the local coffee shop and the surprise revelation about who her father is! There’s a clue, in the tit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2020-08-0747 min
The Big Travel PodcastIain Dale; Communist Russia, Italian Coach Trips, the SAS in Beirut and the Decline of Social DiscourseA school trip to Communist Russia left LBC’s Iain Dale hooked on travel. He’s since learned fluent German, been chased to the border by a Hungarian prostitute, was guarded at gun-point in Lebanon, has done things he doesn’t want to tell us in a Miami hotel and, as one of the UK’s foremost political commentators, feels Washington DC is almost an ancestral home. A humorous insight into the world we live, angry tweeters, anonymous trolls, the importance of languages and why we can’t just all get alon Learn more about your ad choices. V...
2020-07-2858 min
The Big Travel PodcastDr Hassan Shehata; World-Leading Miscarriage Expert on Torture in a Sudanese Prison, Bob Marley in Jamaica and Donald Trump on MedicationPioneering expert Dr Hassan Shehata was thrown headlong into revolution, military Islamic extremism, beatings and torture as a junior doctor in Khartoum. We discuss his horrific time in ‘ghost house’ prisons, Sudan, Egypt, sitting on Bob Marley’s bed in Jamaica, Donald Trump and Hydroxychloroquine, following Liverpool FC around the world and his extraordinary work helping people become parents. Dr Hassan Shehata, our 100th episode, is also who helped Lisa and David have children after 5 miscarriages. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2020-07-1559 min
The Big Travel PodcastEulanda Shead Osagiede; Travel's Colonial History, Japanese Kimonos and Tanzanian Seaweed CollectorsAward-winning travel and food blogger from Hey! Dip Your Toes In Eulanda Shead Osagiede grew up in Colorado, balancing beautiful forests and mountains with growing gang violence and police oppression, studied dance in New York then moved to the UK. We talk the Colonial history of travel writing, #BlackLivesMatter, the challenges of being a minority in a very white industry, Japan’s beautiful Kimonos, luxurious Moroccan hammans, the Caribbean and the Tanzanian seaweed collector who changed her perception.
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2020-07-0241 min
Pod Bible Podcast#046 • Why Aren't You A Doctor Yet? / Fingers On Buzzers / Big Travel PodcastWelcome to episode 46 of the Pod Bible podcast!Nothing but the good stuff this week as always folks, as Ad steers you comprehensively through the week of podcastery! The guests of honour this week are three quarters of the ‘Why Aren’t You A Doctor Yet?’ podcast, who are followed by Lucy & Jenny of the Fingers On Buzzers podcast and Lisa Francesca Nand of the Big Travel Podcast for their podcast recommendations respectively. SO MUCH TO ENJOY so why don’t you go ahead and do that - you shan’t go wrong. Have fun!KEEP AN...
2020-06-2924 min
The Big Travel PodcastBoutique Hotelier, Francesca Eyre; Parisian Au Pairing, Irish Stately Homes and the Accident That Wiped Her MemoryGrowing up with two terminally ill siblings Francesca Eyre, chef & co-owner of Chilly Powder holidays, learned independence at a young age. A chance encounter when chasing her mother’s lost pearls led her to the mountains. As a part-time endurance athlete a terrifying accident led to a challenging recovery but together with her husband Paul she’s opening a second Chilly Powder in beautiful Provence. She sees participating in incredible endurance events as a means to "breathe for those who no longer can" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2020-06-1845 min
Pod Bible Podcast#043 • The Big Travel Podcast / Early Work / Chew The ChatWelcome to episode 43 of the Pod Bible podcast!You are very welcome and we very much hope you enjoy another week of full on podcast joy.First up, we have Lisa Francesca Nand introducing her excellent ‘Big Travel Podcast’, which will surely provide vicarious holiday enjoyment for the time being at least, followed by recommendations from Rhys James of Early Work, and Sam Souls of Chew The Chat!So much to explore and enjoy. Get yourself involved…PODBIBLE LINKS!Pod Bible MagazinePod Bible TwitterPod...
2020-06-0819 min
The Big Travel PodcastHollywood Military Adviser, Paul Biddiss; Correcting George Clooney, Pinewood with Brad Pitt, Tenerife with Matt Damon and Surviving Emergency Chute LandingsThere aren’t many people who would correct George Clooney but, on his first film as an extra, this led to former paratrooper Paul Biddiss having a huge change in career from surveillance and bodyguard to Hollywood military adviser. He’s since worked with Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Sam Mendes and more. He’s been chased by a baboon in Kenya, charged by elephants in the Masai Mara, wrangled huge snakes in Malaysian swamps and most importantly, to him anyway, has found a KFC in every worldwide location. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoic
2020-06-0238 min
The Big Travel PodcastKash Bhattacharya: The Budget Traveller, Grand Hostels, Finnish Cloudberries and Ancient Samurai KingdomsThe work of Kash Battacharya, the Budget Traveller, has won him National Geographic Traveller Writer of the Year, jobs for for Lonely Planet and the BBC and resulted in his book The Grand Hostels, Luxury Hostels of the World. Kash, in easing-lockdown Berlin, talks budget travel, culture shock from Kent to Calcuttta age 9, being ‘the English kid’ at a 18,000-pupil school, Dutch houses in Scotland, hanging with Rastas in South Africa and a surreal encounter with Tommy Lee Jones in an ancient Samurai King Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2020-05-1644 min
Pod Bible Podcast#039 • Have You Heard George's Podcast / Private Parts / The Big Travel PodcastWelcome to episode 39 of the Pod Bible podcast!Powerful good vibes to you and your nears and dears, as we proudly present a good bowlful of hardcore podcast newness (and in some cases not so newness) for your ears! Ad aka King Ad Rock is flying solo on a friendly sky as he guides you through the podmos (it’s cosmos but with POD IN PLACE OF COS, see), including a chat with George The Poet about his incredible ‘Have You Heard George’s Podcast’, followed by recommendations from Jamie Laing of Private Parts, and Lisa Francesca Nand of...
2020-05-1121 min
The Big Travel PodcastOliver Gee, The Earful Tower Podcast; Back-Street Paris, a Swedish Moose and the Great American Road-Trip (…yeah, baby)The fabulous Earful Tower Podcast, of which the star of the show is Paris, hit number one this month in the USA Apple podcast charts. Lisa chats to host Oliver Gee about seeing Paris like a local, chasing beavers down canals, catacombs, a moose on the loose in Sweden, grand Colonial hotels in Fiji, East African trucking on a shoe-string, great American road-trips, people who call you baby and sugar in gas stations and so much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2020-04-2840 min
The Big Travel PodcastVictoria Hislop; Best-Selling Novelist on Greek Leprosy Colonies, Garcia Lorca in Granada and Kitsch Souvenirs of Fascist DictatorsWith her impeccably researched historical novels, Victoria Hislop has the power to transport you through place and time. Her books have sold millions around the world and been translated into over 35 languages.A former travel writer she divides her time between Athens, Crete and England and the inspiration for her stories come from anything from a leprosy colony in the Greek Islands to Garcia Lorca’s family home in Granada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2020-04-1638 min
The Big Travel PodcastTravis Elborough; Vanishing Lakes in Uzbekistan, Californian Ghost Towns and Disappearing Yorkshire VillagesSearching for the quirk in the world cultural commentator Travis Elborough has explored topics as diverse as the history of the Routemaster bus, vinyl records, donkeys at the British seaside and pirates in the Caribbean. He recently collaborated with cartographer Martin Brown for The Atlas of Vanishing Places, winner of the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2020 illustrated book. For this episode we’re actually in the wonderful Stanford’s Travel Book Shop, in London’s Covent Garden just before Lo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2020-04-0739 min
The Big Travel PodcastSophy Roberts; Elephant Conservation in Chad, Remote Rivers in Papua New Guinea and The Lost Pianos of SiberiaReporting on wildlife conservation, threats to eco-systems and fragile cultures from remote corners of the world is travel writer Sophy Robert’s passion. She cut her journalistic teeth with Jessica Mitford then ditched a job at Conde Nast Traveller to ‘tell those stories often untold’. She’s diced with danger in Papua New Guinea, protected elephants in Chad, fallen in love with the forests of the Congo and crossed the wildest parts of Russia to tell the fascinating stories of The Lost Pianos of Sibe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2020-04-0239 min
When in SpainMálaga & The Costa del Sol with travel journalist Lisa Francesca NandThis week I'm joined by travel journalist and host of The Big Travel Podcast, Lisa Francesca Nand.
Lisa spent her childhood living on the Costa del Sol from the age of seven when her parents relocated from the north of England to the fishing village of Los Boliches near Fuengirola.
Lisa recalls her childhood memories of growing up with the sun and sea and shares some of her favourite places along the Costa del Sol. We also talk about how Málaga city has transformed itself into a destination in its own right - not just somewhere to fly into...
2020-03-3056 min
The Big Travel PodcastCoronavirus and Travel; Lockdown in London, Madrid and ConnecticutThree weeks ago we were in Malaga having tapas and wine with Bill Bailey and now that seems like a lifetime away as most of us around the world are in lockdown. Lisa talks about how the travel ban and lockdown is affecting her and people around the world and also speaks to Paul Burge from the When in Spain Podcast and Danielle Desir from the Thought Card Podcast who is in Bridgeport in Connecticut. A heartfelt ode to the friends, family and freedoms we are all missing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm...
2020-03-2539 min
The Big Travel PodcastBill Bailey; Larks in Transit, Vultures in the Pyrenees, Australian Rural Sheep Stations and Indian Ox-Roading AccidentsWe’re in Malaga with superstar comedian Bill Bailey having tapas by the Cathedral. As well as being sublimely entertaining Bill is possibly the world’s most well travelled comedian and on this episode we talk childhood holidays, the Coronavirus, touring, languages, politics, birding, wildlife, Indonesia, moths, crazy car rides, free tea, dancing bears, growing up in the West Country, teenage bands and organ playing in crematoriums and so much more, All over a nice glass of Spanish red and some cheese. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2020-03-1257 min
The Julia Hartley-Brewer ShowJulia Hartley-Brewer Daily | Budget 2020, government wins Huawei vote and the Coronavirus latestJulia speaks with Former Justice Secretary David Gauke about the Budget 2020. Tobias Ellwood, Chair of the Defence Select Committee and Conservative MP, discusses the government winning the Huawei vote following the backbench rebellion. Chair of the BMA GPs committee, Dr Richard Vautrey, tells Julia about the spread of the coronavirus in the UK. Travel expert, Lisa-Francesca Nand, discusses its travel implications Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2020-03-1122 min
Cross Question with Iain DaleBONUS: Coronavirus - Your Questions AnsweredBONUS PANEL: Coronavirus - your questions answered with GP & Chair of the Council of the British Medical Association Dr Chaand Nagpaul, President of Population Health at Aetna International Dr Sneh Khemka & Travel Journalist Lisa Francesca Nand
2020-03-0348 min
The Big Travel PodcastTeam GB’s Mel Nicholls; Endurance Wheelchair Racing, London and Rio, Breaking Records and Travel LogisticsJust 15 months after taking up wheelchair racing Mel Nicholls Team GB Paralympic cyclist, endurance wheelchair racer and adventurer, was at London 2012 before going on to Rio. Last year she nailed the London Marathon in under two hours and also broke the world record for hand cycling the whole length of Britain. She’s battled strokes, heart surgery, extreme weather and plenty of bad wheelchair access in airports to travel the world finding the adventure in absolutely everything.
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2020-03-0340 min
The Big Travel PodcastLucy Siegle; Travel in the Era of Climate CrisisYes, we love travel, but how can we do this in the era of climate crisis? On this special episode, combining The Big Travel Podcast and WTM Insights podcast, Lucy Siegle, leading authority on environmental issues, examines the environmental impact of travel; the impact of tourism and aviation, what can travellers do to lessen this and what can the travel industry do to help. It’s an earnest one, but as usual with Lucy and Lisa who’ve known each other a long long time, there are a few laughs too. Learn more about your ad choices. Visi...
2020-02-2640 min
The Big Travel PodcastBonnie Rakhit; Fashion, Luxury Travel, Instagram, Coachella and Anti-Bullying CampaigningFormer fashion editor Bonnie Rakhit, The Style Traveller, has an enviable job combining luxury travel and fashion. Having been bullied badly as a child her aim now to start using her platform to raise awareness. We talk Instagram, blogging, iconic train journeys, iconic hotels, fashion front rows, racism, taking a beating, cave raves, dancing under the stars, Coachella, Leonardo Di Caprio snogging Rhianna, California convertibles and Instagrammers using profiles for meaningful causes.
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2020-02-0636 min
The Big Travel PodcastForeign Correspondent Humphrey Hawksley; Expelled from Sri Lanka, Death Threats in the Philippines and Cold War Espionage ThrillersHumphrey 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, traced Graham Greene’s footsteps in Sierra Leone and the Cold War and espionage are prominent themes in his popular thrillers. On this episode we talk war zones, politics, the EU, Trump, guns, Russia, Iraq, Afghanistan and the pain of accidently tipping a well-known country music star on the streets of Nashville.
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2020-01-2944 min
The Big Travel PodcastIndia Hicks; Family, Bahamian Island Life, Maharajahs’ Palaces and Rat Infested HostelsEntrepreneur and style icon India Hicks, daughter of designer David Hicks and granddaughter of Lord and Lady Mountbatten, is related to everyone from Prince Philip to Queen Victoria. India talks life on a remote Caribbean island, her famous and sometimes unconventional family, taking her 90-year-old mother to Iceland, backpacking in rat-infested hostels and the harrowing damage done by Hurricane Dorian. Oh and she also has the un-missable India Hicks Podcast (of which Lisa is producer).
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2020-01-2235 min
The Big Travel PodcastNicky Kelvin; The Points Guy UK on Mongolian Rockets, Israeli Biker Gangs, Dicing with Mugabe in Zimbabwe and Great Travel DealsThe face of The Points Guy UK, a website showing us how to get the most from points and miles whose US site 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 Kilimanjaro, accidentally setting fire to a Mongolian hillside, working as a photojournalist (oh and a Manny) in Israel and he was once forced to pay £600 for a jam sandwich in Zimbabwe in order to escape the Mugabe regime unscathed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit meg...
2020-01-1435 min
The Big Travel Podcast83. Dr Mandeep Rai; Global Values Expert on 150 Countries, Cultural Inspiration and Making that Leap!Exploring the hearts, minds & traditions of cultures around the world is Dr Mandeep Rai’s passion & in her book The Values Compass (recommended by the Dalai Lama!) & on this episode we question what makes us who we are; why the Turkish are hospitable, the Jordanians helpful & the Argentinians passionate? Mandeep has travelled to over 150 countries & loves more than anything how chance encounters with strangers can change your life. Plus inspirational thoughts on how we can embrace our own core values. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2019-12-1831 min
The Big Travel PodcastThe Big Travel Podcast CHRISTMAS 2019 SPECIAL!Giles Coren obsessed with Christmas, India Hicks in the Bahamas, Cosmo travel ed. Amanda Statham in Yorkshire, Rhik Samadder on Christmas Day in a Bangkok sex hotel, Dom Joly eating tinned tuna in Iran, festival guru Rob Da Bank on ‘fake Christmas’ in Dubai, Andy 'The Viking' Fordham on Chopper bikes, Paola Miggiuli the Tiny Italian on Columbian Christmas in Essex, Iain Lee on insane Christmas in Hawaii, Nasa astronaut John Herrington lost in Alaska & make-up artist Hannah Martin in Somerset. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2019-12-1122 min
The Big Travel PodcastCosmopolitan Magazine Travel Editor Amanda Statham; Jamaican Cool, Costa Rica Night Safaris, NYC Cocktails and Family TravelSometimes travel can be just pure fun and Amanda Statham, glossy mags travel editor, honeymoon expert, 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 animals on night safari Costa Rica, danced at sunrise in Trinidad Carnival covered in mud and spent an enviable amount of time sitting at New York City rooftop bars sipping cocktails at sunset. Laugh your way through a light-hearted chat about the love of all things tra Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adch...
2019-11-2951 min
The Big Travel PodcastIn New York with Film-Maker Will Francome; US Prisons, Kenyan Orphanages, Arctic Ice Caves and Norwegian PooWe’re in Brooklyn with documentary maker Will Francome talking filming on location, capital punishment, the American criminal justice system, the people who get let off death row, orphanages in Kenya, standing knee deep in sh*t for hours in Norway, ice caves in the Arctic, Thai Kick Boxing, racism, cocaine, pizza, rats carrying slices of pizza and the town in Nebraska with a population of one person. A wonderfully enjoyable insight into the world of a documentary maker with Will Francome. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2019-11-0736 min
The Big Travel Podcast79. In Tuscany with Paola Maggiulli, The Tiny Italian; Talking Italian... Food, Wine, Colombia, Cuban Salsa Bars and London Pop UpsIn a villa in the Tuscany hills Lisa and Anglo-Italian food writer, cook and presenter Paola Maggiulli, aka The Tiny Italian, 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 family delicatessen in London’s Battersea. She’s diced with danger in Colombia, travelled the length of Italy to find the best regional dishes and has a burgeoning TV career including appearing on Channel 4’s Cooking up a For Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoic
2019-10-2243 min
The Big Travel PodcastOn Location in Madrid with James Blick, Tapas Expert from Spain RevealedAn ‘on location’ episode! Lisa is in Casa Toni, a traditional tapas bar in in central Madrid, with James Blick from ‘Devour Tours’ and ‘Spain Revealed’ YouTube channel talking Spanish food, culture, history, beer, lamb neck glands, New Zealanders drinking in Shepherd’s Bush, Russian Roulette with padron peppers, Jesus nailed to the cross, General Franco, Civil War, flamenco, four metre pianos, Farah Fawcett hair, Barcelona, Cadiz, gentrification, is Spanish coffee good or bad...What don’t w Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2019-10-0843 min
The Big Travel PodcastDom Joly; Childhood in a Beirut Warzone, Pink Floyd in Syria, Dark Tourism and in Search of the YetiFor comedian Dom Joly, travel is in the blood. Born in Beirut he had what he describes in his recent book, The Hezbollah Hiking Club, as a paradoxical childhood between a posh boarding school and a warzone. He dreamt of being a foreign correspondent, has investigated ‘dark tourism’ and the world’s most unlikely holiday destinations and travelled the globe in search of mythical monsters such as Bigfoot and the Yeti, notching up almost 100 countries. Join Lisa & Dom for a tour around Oxford in Dom's car Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2019-09-251h 04
The Big Travel PodcastMimi Aye; Burmese Food Critic on Mandalay Inspired Recipes, Margate and Blasting Out Alanis Morissette in JapanMimi’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 holidays in Burma, is conflicted by seeing people flying over pagodas in hot air balloons and loves nothing more than exploring Japan and blasting out Karaoke. Lisa popped around to Mimi Aye’s house for a lovely chat about life, food and travel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2019-09-1836 min
The Big Travel PodcastJohn Herrington; NASA Astronaut (Yes Really!) on Space, Native American Heritage, the US Wilderness and Inspiring the Next GenerationNASA astronaut John Herrington was the first ever Native American to travel to space. He lives in the Idaho wilderness, flies his own plane, cycled over 4000 miles from Washington to Florida and recently features as one of two inspiring U.S. trailblazers exploring America in the incredible film “Into America’s Wild”. His inspirational stories have landed him a well suited role as a motivational speaker and he will surely both inspire and motivate you here on the Big Travel Podcast… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2019-09-1138 min
The Big Travel PodcastRhik Samadder; A Bangkok Sex Hotel Epiphany, New York Dwarf Punk and Snakes in the Mojave DesertWaking up in a Bangkok sex hotel with his mum on his 30th birthday 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 wonderfurful new book I Never Said I Loved You and on the podcast we talk feeling like he didn’t belong when growing up with Indian parents in London, forgetting trips to New York, losing all his money on a Singapore buffet breakfast and how travel can help heal Learn more about your ad...
2019-08-0641 min
The India Hicks PodcastChildhood as a Mountbatten; Lions, Coatimundis, Bears and Being Left in BudapestImagine growing up in a house with a lion, a bear, a mongoose and a coatimundi (yes we had to look it up too). We're having tea and cake at home with Lady Pamela, daughter of Lord and Lady Mountbatten and India Hicks' much loved mum. In our second episode, India, Lady Pamela and producer Lisa Francesca Nand talk about the exotic creatures that both terrified and tantalised the Mountbattens and their equally exotic visitors, the curious occasion when Lady Pamela and her sister were left for months on end in a random hotel outside Budapest and much more.
2019-08-0316 min
The Big Travel Podcast73. The Arabian Wanderess, Esra Alhamal; Iran, Morocco, Eastern Europe and Mindful Muslim Millennial TravelKnown 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 Millennial travelling mindfully around the globe.
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2019-07-2439 min
The Big Travel PodcastBest-Selling Novelist on Salvadorean refugees in Nicaragua, the Mennonites of the Belize Jungle, Surfing Down a Volcano and Marie ClaireAs a foreign correspondent for Reuters, best-selling novelist Fiona Neill worked with Salvadorean refugees in Nicaragua, made jewellery in the Andes of Peru and travelled all over South America reporting on civil war refugees. She ‘surfed’ down the side of an active volcano, survived revolutions and serious illness and even life as features editor of Marie Claire. Her new book - Beneath the Surface – is a gripping tale of secrets and lies set against the backdrop of the fenlands in Cambridgeshire. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2019-07-1740 min
The Big Travel PodcastGraeme Simsion; The Rosie Project, El Camino De Santiago, Inner City Melbourne and a Writers’ French IdyllWith the publishing phenomenon of The Rosie Project and follow-up The Rosie Effect having sold over 5 million copies worldwide, the final of Graeme Simsion’s trilogy, The Rosie Result, is out now. There’s a proposed Hollywood adaptation in the works and even Bill Gates is even a fan. Travel is an integral part of Graeme’s stories - rural France, his native Melbourne, a cosy house in Norwich or a grey day in Manchester. A lively and engaging conversation with this best-selling Australian author. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2019-07-0334 min
The Big Travel PodcastAndy 'The Viking" Fordham; Legendary Darts Champ on Bublé in Vegas, Whale Watching in Durban, BBQs in Australia and Glasgow RangersLegendary 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, beaches in Australia and many an hour in pubs across the land, which at one point saw him drinking over 80 bottles of beer in one night. A South East London boy, born and bred, this is recorded in Lisa and Andy’s mutual local pub, Blackheath’s The Royal Standard.
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2019-06-2042 min
The Big Travel PodcastRob Da Bank; Festival Promoter, DJ & Record Label Boss on 90s Club Life, Camper Van Life and Bali SabbaticalsRob 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 touring Europe in a yellow camper van called Stella, taking his four kids on sabbatical to Bali or DJing at some of the best parties all over the world. With his own very successful podcast too - The A to Z of Festivals – it’s Rob Da Bank. Learn more about your ad choices. V...
2019-06-1334 min
The Big Travel PodcastEating Pig’s Vagina for I’m a Celeb in Australia, Getting Shot at In Pakistan and Carrying a Massive Roll of Sellotape Around MarrakeshWith 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 I’m A Celebrity in the Australian jungle, been caught in gunfire in Pakistan and wandered the souks of Marrakesh accompanied by the world’s biggest roll of Sellotape. With a delightful conversation about TV, radio, mental health and travel, it’s Iain Lee.
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2019-06-0645 min
The Big Travel PodcastBest-Selling Writer and Actress Carol Drinkwater; Life on the Olive Farm, Parisian Uprisings, Lebanese Olive trees and Stanley KubrickCarol Drinkwater has sold over 1m books about 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 & Small and writes beautifully evocative novels bringing the sights, sounds and smells of France to life in a way that will make you feel you’re sipping rose on a vine-covered terrace overlooking the glistening Mediterranean in the warmth of the summer sun, with a bit of danger thrown in for good measure.
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2019-05-2942 min
The Big Travel PodcastBiker and Producer Antonia Bollingbroke-Kent; Tuk Tuk from Bangkok to Brighton, Motor-Biking Frozen Siberian Rivers and Silk Road Adventures with Joanna LumleyAntonia Bollingbroke-Kent balances big adventures with producing TV shows like Joanna Lumley’s Silk Road Adventures. She drove a bright pink Tuk Tuk from Bangkok to Brighton, did battle with 1000 semi-wild Mongolian horses in the footsteps of Ghengis Khan and nearly froze to death attempting to drive a motorbike and sidecar to the Russian Arctic. Often guided by her Granny’s mantra of ‘Do nothing, say nothing, until the police arrive’ Antonia regales some brilliant travel tales over a cuppa in her k Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2019-05-2136 min
The Big Travel PodcastAdventurer and Author Alastair Humphreys on Cycling the World, Rowing the Atlantic and Chasing Laurie Lee through SpainAlastair Humphreys left Yorkshire 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, busked through Spain by facing his worst fears of performing (badly) in public and having found all that adventure hard when real life came calling, has pioneered the concept of #microadventures. A motivational and inspiration conversation with this intrepid explorer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2019-05-1445 min
Bell and Spurling on Love Sport RadioCardboard Police: Police cars made of card, travelling to Baku and millennial sex.The boys are back and ready to solve the worlds problems. They are joined by former Metropolitan Police Detective Peter Bleksley to talk about plans to introduce cardboard cut-outs to deter speeding. Plus Travel Expert Lisa Francesca-Nand gives her advice to English travellers looking to go to Azerbaijan for the Europa League final. Also, should the laws about smacking your children be changed? Why are millennials having less sex? And we get the latest entertainment news!
2019-05-1053 min
The Big Travel PodcastWilliam Sutcliffe; 'Are You Experienced?' Author on India, Israel the Bolivian Salt Flats and Creating the Travel Book of a GenerationWilliam Sutcliffe’s cynical take on people who go travelling, 'Are You Experienced?' is still inspiring travellers all over the world. He instantly regretted a solo trip to Pakistan to Beijing, was horrified by the realities on the West Bank, ate nothing but marmalade sandwiches when travelling to the remote salt flats in Bolivia and yes a lot stories in Are You Experienced are autobiographical. And yes I do dare to ask him about that pretty graphic description of being 'unwell' in India. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2019-05-071h 01
The Big Travel PodcastAdventure Traveller Sam McManus; Ditching Corporate Life, Kalashnikovs in Remote Africa, Training in a Shaolin Monastery and the Amazon Jungle with Cigarettes and a MacheteHaving 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, the Himalayas, Mongolia and more. He’s been woken up by 30 men with Kalashnikovs in remote African mountains, shaved his head and worn orange pyjamas in a Shaolin Monastery and set off into the Amazon jungle with not much more than cigarettes and a machete.
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2019-04-1041 min
The Big Travel PodcastNorwegian Explorer Erling Kagge; The Two Poles, Everest, Polar Bear Attacks and Life’s Long WalksA solitary walk to the South Pole led to Erling Kagge writing best-selling book Silence; in the Age of Noise and this new book explores how walking can change and indeed save your life. He was the first person to reach ‘the three poles’, he’s explored New York’s sewers - sleeping in tunnels and meeting wonderful characters who lived there, he’s been attacked by a polar bear and won and confounded scientologists who thought he was crazy. His philosophies about life's great walk will really get you Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone...
2019-04-0533 min
The Big Travel PodcastWill Geddes; ‘The Real James Bond’ on Iraq, Afghanistan, Movies and Hollywood StarsAs one of the world's top specialists in counter terrorism, kidnap and personal security Will Geddes, aka ‘the Real James Bond’, has worked in hostile environments from Iraq and Afghanistan to… Hollywood. He felt most scared driving from Basra to Baghdad, most happy in New York City and a relaxing break form work turned into a rescue operation in the 2004 tsunami. With close and personal connections to so many famous people, none of whom he can tell us about it’s an insightful yet delightful convers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2019-03-2944 min
The Big Travel PodcastJamie Maddison; Adventurer and Ultra Runner on Nomad Life in Kazakstan, Camel Life in Uzbekistan and Eagle Hunters in MongoliaAdventurer and ultra runner Jamie Maddison has run 100s of miles through vast deserts, lived with a nomad in Central Asia, raced on horseback with a crazy herder on the remote old postal roads in Kazakstan, pulled a camel through 100 miles of desert in Uzbekistan and lived with eagle hunters in Mongolia. With fascinating stories about how expeditions can challenge and change you and have a surprisingly lasting effect on mental and physical health. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2019-03-1939 min
The Big Travel PodcastKris Hallenga; Coppa Feel Campaigner on Travel Plans Scuppered and Created, Beijing, Iceland, Australia and DisneyAged just 22 Kris Hallenga returned from a trip to Beijing to be told she had incurable cancer. Ditching plans to travel the world she threw herself into building Coppa Feel, her wonderful charity. ‘Passion can take you to some incredible places’ she says, and her message HAS taken her to wonderful places - literal and metaphorical. She recently celebrated her ten year 'cancerversary' and has some inspirational words for us all about enjoying travel, enjoying life, enjoying every moment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2019-03-1237 min
The Big Travel PodcastElli Radinger; Living with Wolves, the Transformation of Yellowstone National Park and the Beautiful Bond Between Humans and DogsWhen in Germany in the 80s Elli Radinger was refused a job in space law because it was supposedly man’s work she gave it all up to dedicate her life to wolves and is now a world expert on the subject. In this fascinating episode I talk to Elli about watching wolves in the wild in America’s vast national parks, close encounters with bears, the incredible bonds wolves share in the pack and about some of the really lovely stories in her book the Wisdom of Wolves. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/ad...
2019-03-0632 min
The Big Travel PodcastJohn Simpson; Over 50 Years as a Foreign Correspondent, Revolution in Iran, Bombed in Iraq, Jacuzzis in Belgrade and Hallucinating in the AmazonForeign correspondent and world affairs editor John Simpson has risked life and limb reporting for the BBC for over 50 years. The Tiananmen Square massacre, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Zimbabwe, Bosnia – you name it he was there. He’s been punched by a UK Prime Minister, bombed by US 'friendly fire', met Gaddafi in Bedouin tents in Libya, watched Saddam Hussein’s execution in court and whilst experimenting with tribal hallucinogenics in the deepest Amazon was once hugged by a six foot goldfish wearing sh Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2019-02-2751 min
The Big Travel PodcastMegan Hoskin; Rowing from the US to Hawaii, Falling Off A Mountain in Ecuador and Climbing in Nepal in During the EarthquakeImagine rowing all the way from California to Hawaii, 2,400 miles over 62 days across the Pacific with nothing but two friends and some oars. Team Pacific Terrific broke records and came second in the Great Pacific Race. Megan Hoskin has such wonderfully evocative stories about what it feels like to be in the middle of the ocean when you’re closest fellow humans are the ones passing over in the plane and also about her mountaineering in Nepal, Ecuador and much more Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2019-02-1932 min
The Big Travel PodcastBookish Bronte: Instagram Book Photographer on Mary Queen of Scots, Tuscany, New York State’s Lake George and Championing Creative IntrovertsOn Instagram a reading revolution has spurned many #Bookstagram stars 'Bookish Bronte' Huskinson, 22 year old author, visual storyteller and creator of beautiful book photography. A self-appointed champion of creative introverts she loves finding the best book-friendly villages and finds her happy place in a picturesque beach town on Lake George in New York State. We talk Instagram ethics, magical realism, feminism and feminine energy, travelling outside our comfort zones and much more.
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2019-02-1231 min
The Big Travel PodcastMonisha Rajesh; Around the World by Train, the Siberian Galapagos, the Death Railway from Bangkok, Fascinating North Korea and Tibetan Nuns with iPhonesAfter Around India in 80 Trains Monisha Rajesh decided to tackle the whole world in 80 trains on a journey that took in 45,000 miles across Europe, Russia, Mongolia, China, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Japan, Canada and America. Stopping at the world’s oldest lake in Siberia, taking the ‘death railway’ from Bangkok to Nam Tok and meeting Tibetan nuns with iPhones she has some wonderful, inspirational and entertaining stories for you in a conversation everyone who loves travel will just love Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2019-01-2945 min
The Big Travel PodcastLevison Wood; Walking the Nile, Walking the Himalayas, Walking the Americas and a 5000 Mile Trip Around the Arabian PeninsulaBritish explorer, writer and photographer Levison Wood has travelled to over 100 countries, many of them in war zones, typically thought of as hostile or off the beaten track. His documentaries and best-selling books have enchanted people the world over. He’s walked the whole length of the Nile, walked the Himalayas where he survived a terrible car crash, diced with gang leaders when walking the Americas and recently returned from a 5000 mile circumnavigation of the Arabian peninsula from Iraq to Lebanon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2019-01-1846 min
The Big Travel PodcastLiz Johnson; Paralympic Swimmer on Athens, Beijing, London 2012, Berlin, Australia, Argentina, Brazil, South Africa and moreParalympian Swimmer Liz Johnson often she says how fortunate she is. She IS of course fortunate in many ways, she’s won golds, silvers and bronzes all over the world, competed for her country and been able to turn her passion into her life. But it hasn’t been without its challenges and heartaches from being born with Cerebral Palsy to the sad loss of her mum. A truly inspirational conversation about the challenges and joys of travel with one of the UK’s most impressive athletes.
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2019-01-1543 min
The Big Travel PodcastSarah Breen and Emer McLysaght; Co Authors of the ‘Aisling’ books on the Irish Celtic Tiger, Crazy Nights in Berlin and Vegas and Creating the Irish Bridget JonesA hungover conversation one day in Dublin between two best friends Sarah Breen and Emer McLysaght led to the creation of a loveable character called Aisling, who quickly became a Facebook phenomenon, then two best-selling books is now being made into a film by an Oscar winning production co. This episode explores the quirks of life in every small town, moving to the big city, the wild days of the Irish Celtic Tiger, crazy nights in Berlin, even crazier ones in Las Vegas and so much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2019-01-0836 min
The Big Travel PodcastNew Year's Special; New Year's Eve Across the WorldFrom a haunted hotel in the Cambodian jungle to a dry New Year's Eve in Kuala Lumper it's Lisa's New Year's Eve special. Taking in Belgium, Holland, London, Malaga in Spain, Goa in India, Koh Samui in Thailand, Sydney in Australia, Fiji, Cambodia, Vietnam and random musings on Prince, Shane MacGowan and various characters met along with way.
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2018-12-3027 min
The Big Travel PodcastGiles Coren; The World’s Best Restaurants, Roast Guinea Pig in Ecuador, Terrifying Tiny Planes in Kenya and Randy Whales in TahitiAs the UK’s best-known food critic, writing columns for The Times and many other outlets as well as presenting TV programmes like BBC2's 'Amazing Hotels', Giles Coren has travelled to over 100 countries. He is, in his own words - an icon of foodie ponceyness so don’t ask me how we get on to McDonalds, Nandos and frozen fish blocks in Billericay. A highly entertaining episode in which we discuss the world's best restaurants, plastic boobs in Nice, roast guinea pig in Ecuador and so much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/ad...
2018-12-1836 min
The Big Travel PodcastThe Big Travel Podcast Christmas Special; Edith Bowman, Giles Coren, Jane Garvey, Kirsty Wark, Helen Zaltzman and much moreA wonderful collection of Christmas stories with Edith Bowman's perfect Californian Christmas, Jane Garvey getting stoned on Christmas Day in Liverpool, Helen Zaltzman and the lady in plastic bags at the Grand Canyon, author Isabelle Broom being punched in the nose in Lake Como, Newsnight’s Kirsty Wark having her crackers confiscated, Loose Women’s Andrea McLean on childhood Christmases in the Caribbean and The Times restaurant critic Giles Coren on why Christmas should never, ever be abroad. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2018-12-1425 min
The Big Travel PodcastHelen Zaltzman; Podcasting from a Tasmanian Hospital, American Road-Trip Spreadsheets, Taxidermy Hot Tubs and Big Pointy Red RocksSurprisingly for a conversation that encompasses death, intensive care, cannibalism, Colonial guilt, poverty, the Holocaust and being kicked in the shin by small children Helen Zaltzman and Lisa manage to laugh their way through this episode with one entertaining story after another from ‘The Benign Dictator of the Podcasting Republic’. Travel highlights include Hawaii, Australia, Tasmania, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, Japan, Peru, Utah, Vegas and a hot tubs-taxidermy themed hotel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2018-09-1842 min
The Big Travel PodcastSimon Calder; Mr Travel Expert Himself on…EVERYWHERETravel 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, her first official travel writing commission after she interviewed him on her radio show. A travel packed episode with 'Mr Travel' himself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2018-06-2653 min
The Big Travel PodcastChris Nand; India and Fiji Under British Colonial Rule, Captain Cook’s Tongan Turtle and The Beatles in 1960’s Liverpool (Father’s Day Special)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 swam as their mums washed their clothes and of course the beautiful Fijian beaches. Taking us to Fiji, Tonga, New Zealand, 1960s Liverpool (meeting the Beatles!) to Spain and more. Amid lots of laughter there are also a few tears! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2018-06-141h 04
The Big Travel PodcastAbout The Big Travel Podcast: Mid Year Special from SpainLive from a beach bed on the coast of Andalucia, Spain, on this episode Lisa tells us all about The Big Travel Podcast including guests so far and guests to come. There's even some singing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2018-05-2914 min
Bechdel Theatre PodcastEp 12 - Journalism, journeys and 'Good Girl' with Lisa Francesca NandLisa Francesca Nand is a journalist, travel writer and broadcaster. She was the first female presenter on TalkSPORT, and hosts her own podcast The Big Travel Podcast. We went with Lisa to see Good Girl by Naomi Sheldon at VAULT Festival. The show has since transferred to Trafalgar Studios, where it is running until March 31st. Lisa's #FeministFave is the book A Good Time To Be A Girl and its author Helena Morrissey: a City CEO, mother of nine, and founder of the influential 30% Club which campaigns for gender-balanced UK company boards. More recommendations... Coconut Ovalhouse 11 - 28 April, and touring until June 30...
2018-03-2100 min
The Big Travel PodcastHannah Martin; Make-Up Artist and Social Media Star on Unidentified Eats in China, Dehydrating with Camel Breeders in the Kenyan Desert and Injecting IVF Meds at New York Fashion WeekHannah Martin – make-up artist to the stars, YouTube and Instagram star – talks travelling with Bobbi Brown, negotiating cultural differences in China where her simple solution was to just eat everything and also opens up about her struggles to become a mum including putting bravely having to inject IVF meds in the middle of New York Fashion Week.
Hannah and The Big Travel Podcast host, Lisa, made a connection some years ago after going through similar struggles with miscarriage.
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2018-03-0637 min