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Excess Baggage: Nagasaki - Slow travel canoe

Nagasaki - Slow travel canoe

14/08/2010

BBC Radio 4 - Excess Baggage, Nagasaki - Slow travel canoe

Sandi Toksvig takes a slow paddle around Britain and hears a new account of Nagasaki.

Sandi Toksvig discusses the benefits of travelling slowly around Devon, discovers a very civilised way to canoe between pubs and hears about an imagined account of Nagasaki.

If you are simply planning to do nothing today then our guest Hilary Bradt thinks you've planned your holiday perfectly. Her new guide is called Slow Devon and Exmoor and it's all about how to enjoy the gentle side of holidaying. She joins Sandi Toksvig in the Excess Baggage studio along with Peter Knowles, who has written a canoeing guide which lists twenty-seven stretches of water where you can serenely paddle through beautiful countryside and end up in a lovely pub.

Sandi is also joined by author Lee Langley who walked out of Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly desperate to know what became of the remaining characters. Her novel Butterfly's Shadow imagines their lives through 20th Century Japan and America.

Producer: Laura Northedge.

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