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Dominic Arkwright hits the road with Lucy Mangan, Justin Marozzi and Johnny Green.

Dominic Arkwright hits the road with Lucy Mangan, Justin Marozzi, and former Clash road manager, Johnny Green. From 2010.

"The facts are that four out of five male children start life predisposed in favour of adventure," wrote Peter Fleming in 1933. "They do it because they want to. It suits them. It is their cup of tea." 

In this travel themed edition, Dominic Arkwright asks domestic obsessive Lucy Mangan and Johnny Green, the former road manager of the Clash, whether this is really the case. 

Writer Justin Marozzi weighs in with a compelling account of a mercury drinker he met in Uzbekistan, while debate centres on whether the nomadic urge is innate. 

Producer: Miles Warde

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2010.

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