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Excess Baggage: 30/04/2011

30/04/2011

BBC Radio 4 - Excess Baggage, 30/04/2011

John McCarthy hears about Albania, Africa and the Amazon.

John McCarthy hears about Albania from columnist AA Gill, Africa from novelist Wilbur Smith and the Amazon from author Isabel Losada.

John McCarthy talks to journalist AA Gill about his travel columns which have taken him from earthquake zones to retirement homes and polar regions to Civil War sites. He also meets novelist Wilbur Smith who reflects on piracy off the east coast of Africa and hears from author Isabel Losada how her quest for self knowledge induced her to take hallucinogenic drugs in the Peruvian Amazon. John asks them whether they write to travel or travel to write.

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