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Blackwell Podcasts

 

Welcome to the Blackwell podcast page for Travel, the home of our complete Travel podcast backlist.



AmexicaEd Vulliamy - Amexica

visit the US-Mexican border in the company of award-winning journalist Ed Vulliamy. His book, Amexica, gets under the skin of this often violent world of drugs, guns and people trafficking. He also explains why the region keeps drawing him back with its own unique blend of fascination and repulsion.

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Audio recordings produced by George Miller of podularity.com


City-pick AmsterdamVictor Schiferli Interview - City-pick Amsterdam

With over seventy dazzling writers, from outsiders to insiders, from classic to cutting-edge, City-pick Amsterdam has some of the finest writing on this amazing and unique city. To celebrate the release of the book, Blackwell Online are giving away a city-break for two in the historic heart of Amsterdam!

Furthermore, we sent our podcast host George Miller to the Dutch captial to spend some time with co-editor Victor Schiferli to get an insider's view on the city and further insight into the book. The resulting interview and audio diary, recorded in a number of historic Amsterdam locations including Spui Square, Vondelpark, and the infamous Red Light District, complete with tram bells, ticking bicycles and the sounds of the bustling city, makes for fascinating listening.

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Audio recordings produced by George Miller of podularity.com


On Roads

Joe Moran - On Roads

Joe Moran joins us to discuss his new paperback, On Roads: A Hidden History. The book presents a history of Britain's roads, showing how a relatively simple road system turned into a maze-like pattern of roundabouts, flyovers, and spaghetti junctions. Revealing numerous quirky nuggets of history along the way on subjects ranging from speed limits and driving on the left, to the to the unwritten laws of traffic jams, Moran uses a unique blend of travel writing, anthropology, history and social observation to explore how Britain's roads have their roots in unexpected places...

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Audio recordings produced by George Miller of podularity.com


Parisians

Graham Robb - Parisians

Graham Robb is the author of the highly-praised The Discovery of France as well as other titles on French literature and history. In his new book, Parisians, Robb presents a part history, part travel guide, yet also part memoir and part mystery, revealing the real Paris as seen through the eyes of the inhabitants themselves...

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Audio recordings produced by George Miller of podularity.com


Travels with a Typewriter

Michael Frayn - Travels with a Typewriter

Michael Frayn, author, critic and playwright, discusses his new title Travels with a Typewriter. The book is a collection of travel articles written by Frayn for the Observer during the 1960s and 70s. Documenting his travels to numerous locations worldwide including Israel, Berlin, Japan, America and Cuba, Frayn turns his attention not the extraordinary, but to the ordinary, typical happenings of everyday life.

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Audio recordings produced by George Miller of podularity.com


The Secret Life of France

Lucy Wadham - The Secret Life of France

Lucy Wadham takes us on a journey through The Secret Life of France using 25 years of personal experience to offer a rare insider's view of a nation that may be deeply incompatible with ours, but perhaps also completely misunderstood.

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Audio recordings produced by George Miller of podularity.com


Hidden Treasures of England

Michael McNay - Hidden Treasures of England

Michael McNay provides insight into his new book Hidden Treasures of England, in which he reveals numerous attractions throughout the country which are unknown to tourists and sightseers.

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(To download a file for transferral to an audio device such as an MP3 player, right-click the download link and select 'Save Target As')
Audio recordings produced by George Miller of podularity.com