The point and the pleasure of travel
In the last Excess Baggage, John McCarthy talks to three inveterate travellers: Sara Wheeler, who has written on Africa and the Antarctic, e...
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Excess Baggage
Travel magazine, featuring travellers' tales, experiences and anecdotes
Excess Baggage Podcast Guide
Listen to Excess Baggage, a Society & Culture podcast by BBC. Stream 85 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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20 of 85 episodesAfrica - Rwanda, Uganda and South Sudan
John McCarthy discusses travel to the African countries of Rwanda, Uganda and to the world's newest country, South Sudan. With his guests, d...
Lake Titicaca - Manchester, Bolivia - Malaysia
John McCarthy meets the former debutante Meriel Larken who fell in love with Peru and rescued and restored a Victorian steam ship on Lake Ti...
Wildlife travel
John McCarthy explores wildlife travel with naturalist and tv presenter, Mark Carwardine, who has spent thirty years travelling around the w...
Iceland
Sandi Toksvig goes to Reykjavik to look at aspects of tourism in Iceland and discovers that the volcanic eruptions and the financial crash t...
Family Travel
John McCarthy takes a look at family travel with novelist Gill Lewis, who has taken her daughters spotting wildlife both abroad and in Scotl...
Black Prince - Wine trade in Medieval Europe - Lourdes
John McCarthy meets a writer who followed in the 14th century footsteps of the Black Prince through SW France; an historian who has followed...
Russia - Crimea - Ukraine
Sandi Toksvig discusses the 'Wild East' - Russia - with the BBC's former Moscow correspondent, Martin Sixsmith. Actor Michael Simkins relate...
Medics abroad; The Oscars
Sandi Toksvig hears about medical work abroad from Dr Marie Charles who runs an organisation which places volunteer doctors and nurses in de...
Ashoka's India; Undesirable Places
Sandi Toksvig hears about a lost Emperor of India: Ashoka ruled the subcontinent about 2,200 years ago and left many pillars and rocks carve...
Israel
John McCarthy discusses the diverse attractions of Israel as a destination. It's a land whose tumultuous existence often overshadows a rich,...
Stone - Sacred sites - Crazy River
John McCarthy talks to artist Emily Young about her travels to find stone for her sculpture, to travel writer Martin Symington about his ven...
Antarctica
John McCarthy visits 'The Heart of the Great Alone' an exhibition of polar photography at The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace and, before...
Overland To Mongolia - Wild West - The Calgary Stampede
John McCarthy discusses the 'Wild West' with former documentary film-maker Tim Slessor who has just written a book called 'More than Cowboys...
The Occupied territories of East Jerusalem and the West Bank
John McCarthy looks at the delights and difficulties of visiting the occupied territories of East Jerusalem and the West Bank with writer Sa...
Swimming - Land Art - Sicily
John McCarthy discusses Art and Travel with leading art critic Andrew Graham-Dixon explaining his abiding passion for the raw art of Sicily...
Hitchhiking veteran - Butterflies - Burma
John McCarthy meets three intrepid women travellers who cross the generations as well as the continents. Naomi Molten is a veteran of many a...
England
John McCarthy looks at the changing nature of the traditional attractions of England with historian John Julius Norwich, curator Lucy Worsle...
Christmas Quiz
Peter Curran presents an Excess Baggage special quiz for Christmas from the Radio Theatre with Sandi Toksvig, John McCarthy and their specia...
Travel Biography from The Times Cheltenham Literature Festival
John McCarthy discusses travel biography at October's Cheltenham Literature Festival with eminent writers in the field; Sir Christopher Onda...
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