Excess Baggage
Travel magazine, featuring travellers' tales, experiences and anecdotes
Excess Baggage - 01/03/2008
Travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation with John McCarthy, who looks at the past, present and future of transportation.
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Excess Baggage - 01/05/2010
John McCarthy talks to writers Oliver Bullough and Peter Nasmyth about the Caucasus mountains and to Douglas Patterson who has painted the clifftop monasteries of Greece and Bhutan.
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Excess Baggage - 01/08/2009
Sandi Toksvig meets Elise and Kate who travelled in Tajikistan, Fiona and Jo who rowed across the Indian Ocean and Terri who did voluntary work in Zululand.
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Excess Baggage - 01/09/2007
Travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation with Sandi Toksvig.
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Excess Baggage - 01/11/2008
John McCarthy explores the adventures, frustrations and joys of travel.
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Excess Baggage - 01/12/2007
Travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation with Sandi Toksvig.
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Excess Baggage - 02/01/2010
Sandi Toksvig talks to writer and broadcaster Garrison Keillor about his travels in America and abroad.
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Excess Baggage - 02/02/2008
Travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation with John McCarthy.
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Excess Baggage - 02/05/2009
John McCarthy talks to Peter Moore about the scooter culture in Italy, to David Lane about the role of the Mafia in the south of the country and to Geoff Dyer about art in Venice.
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Excess Baggage - 02/06/2007
John McCarthy with travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation.
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Excess Baggage - 02/08/2008
Travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation with Benedict Allen.
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Excess Baggage - 03/01/2009
Sandi Toksvig explores the adventures, frustrations and joys of travel. She hears about two overland trips that provided very different experiences for the travellers involved.
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Excess Baggage - 03/02/2007
John McCarthy with travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation.
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Excess Baggage - 03/03/2007
Travel programme featuring people's tales, anecdotes and conversation.
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Excess Baggage - 03/04/2010
Sandi Toksvig explores the Falkland Islands in the company of an artist and a Falklands vet, and traces a deported Polish family from what is now Belarus to Tavistock in Devon.
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Excess Baggage - 03/05/2008
Travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation with John McCarthy.
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Excess Baggage - 03/07/2010
Sandi Toksvig talks to Anthony Sattin about the Nile and Gail Simmons about Sinai and to Joe Senior about his experience as a blind person travelling in NW Australia.
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Excess Baggage - 03/10/2009
John McCarthy explores the many attempts to find a Northwest Passage across the Arctic and travels back in time with a travel guide to Medieval England.
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Excess Baggage - 03/11/2007
Travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation with John McCarthy.
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Excess Baggage - 04/04/2009
Sandi Toksvig explores the back streets of old Paris, and uncovers an obscure corner of British military history involving Belize, HMS Ark Royal and Buccaneer fighter bombers.
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Excess Baggage - 04/07/2009
Sandi Toksvig hears from Fleur Britten about couch surfing in Asia and talks to Benedict le Vay and Matthew Engel about the pleasures and problems of travelling by train in Britain.
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Excess Baggage - 04/08/2007
Travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation with John McCarthy.
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Excess Baggage - 04/10/2008
John McCarthy explores the adventures, frustrations and joys of travel.
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Excess Baggage - 04/12/2010
John McCarthy looks at tribes with Piers Gibbon, archaeology in the Hebrides with Steven Mithen and meets a first time visitor to Britain from Tanzania, Immaculate Mwaungulu.
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Excess Baggage - 05/01/2008
Travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation with Sandi Toksvig.
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Excess Baggage - 05/04/2008
Travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation with Sandi Toksvig.
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Excess Baggage - 05/05/2007
John McCarthy with travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation.
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Excess Baggage - 05/06/2010
John McCarthy asks Mary Beard why the Parthenon has attracted tourists since it was built and Ian Vince and Richard Fortey explain why geology influences our holiday destinations.
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Excess Baggage - 05/07/2008
Travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation with Sandi Toksvig.
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Excess Baggage - 05/09/2009
John McCarthy hears Michael Frayn's thoughts on his early travels as a reporter and from Liam D'Arcy Brown about a journey on the 1,000-mile long Chinese Grand Canal.
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Excess Baggage - 05/12/2009
Sandi Toksvig talks about green travel with actor and website founder Richard Johnson and asks former consul Mike Stead about Angola as a suitable destination for tourists.
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Excess Baggage - 06/01/2007
John McCarthy with travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation.
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Excess Baggage - 06/02/2010
Peter Curran talks treks in Turkey and explores its range of ruins with Kate Clow and Francis Russell, and glimpses behind the scenes of a safari guide's life with Peter Allison.
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Excess Baggage - 06/03/2010
Sandi Toksvig talks to Prof Brian Cox about visiting earth's most alien environments, Oxfam's Dame Barbara Stocking about Chad and Esther David about India's Jewish communities.
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Excess Baggage - 06/06/2009
John McCarthy hears from his guests about Aegean and Atlantic sailing, a trip on French waterways and the story of Africa's oldest ship in Malawi.
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Excess Baggage - 06/09/2008
Travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation with Sandi Toksvig.
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Excess Baggage - 06/10/2007
Travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation with John McCarthy.
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Excess Baggage - 06/12/2008
Sandi Toksvig explores the adventures, frustrations and joys of travel.
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Excess Baggage - 07/02/2009
John McCarthy explores the adventures, frustrations and joys of travel.
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Excess Baggage - 07/03/2009
John McCarthy explores the adventures, frustrations and joys of travel.
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Excess Baggage - 07/04/2007
Sandi Toksvig with travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation.
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Excess Baggage - 07/06/2008
Travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation with John McCarthy.
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Excess Baggage - 07/07/2007
Sandi Toksvig with travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation.
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Excess Baggage - 07/11/2009
John McCarthy explores wild Scotland with two writers and takes a trip on the Orient Express.
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Excess Baggage - 08/03/2008
Travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation. John McCarthy visits the Imperial War Museum in Duxford, Cambridgeshire, to look at the past, present and future of air travel.
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Excess Baggage - 08/05/2010
John McCarthy talks to writer Michael Jacobs about his journey along the Andes and volunteer Roz Strickland about Rwanda.
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Excess Baggage - 08/08/2009
Sandi Toksvig joins a botanist in search of the Lotus Flower in rural Japan and takes a journey into the dark and fascinating hinterland of Russia.
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Excess Baggage - 08/09/2007
Travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation with Sandi Toksvig.
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Excess Baggage - 08/11/2008
John McCarthy explores the adventures, frustrations and joys of travel.
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Excess Baggage - 08/12/2007
Travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation with Sandi Toksvig.
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Excess Baggage - 09/01/2010
John McCarthy celebrates travelling in a winter landscape with two writers, one in Wales and one in Scotland, and talks to crime writer Barbara Nadel about the lure of Istanbul.
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Excess Baggage - 09/02/2008
Travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation with John McCarthy.
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Excess Baggage - 09/05/2009
John McCarthy talks to BBC correspondent Frank Gardner about visiting strange and dangerous places, and to actor Michael Simkins about touring France to explore his preconceptions.
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Excess Baggage - 09/06/2007
John McCarthy with travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation.
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Excess Baggage - 09/08/2008
Travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation. Sandi Toksvig visits the National Portrait Gallery to explore the relationship between travel and portraiture.
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Excess Baggage - 10/01/2009
John McCarthy explores the adventures, frustrations and joys of travel.
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Excess Baggage - 10/02/2007
John McCarthy with travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation.
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Excess Baggage - 10/03/2007
Sandi Toksvig with travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation.
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Excess Baggage - 10/04/2010
Sandi Toksvig and guests travel far and wide in search of seeds to bring back to the UK for classification and preservation, and explore Iran and the Musandam Peninsula.
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Excess Baggage - 10/05/2008
Travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation with John McCarthy.
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Excess Baggage - 10/07/2010
Surfer Tom Anderson tells Sandi Toksvig about seeking the great waves of the world and Christine Davies and Jennie Cox reveal two very different approaches to women's travel.
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Excess Baggage - 10/10/2009
John McCarthy travels to Japan and Israel in search of gardening inspiration and to Bogota in Colombia for a knitting experience.
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Excess Baggage - 10/11/2007
Travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation with John McCarthy.
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Excess Baggage - 11/04/2009
Sandi Toksvig wanders to some of Britain's cemeteries with funerary historian Dr Julian Litten and explores walks around the UK in the company of writer Christopher Somerville.
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Excess Baggage - 11/07/2009
Sandi Toksvig looks at the experience of voyaging by freighter both as a passenger and as a crew member, and how cloudspotting is an ideal traveller's pastime.
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Excess Baggage - 11/08/2007
Travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation with Arthur Smith.
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Excess Baggage - 11/10/2008
John McCarthy explores the adventures, frustrations and joys of travel.
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Excess Baggage - 11/12/2010
Anita Anand explores the adventures, frustrations and joys of travel.
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Excess Baggage - 12/01/2008
Travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation with John McCarthy.
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Excess Baggage - 12/04/2008
Travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation with Sandi Toksvig.
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Excess Baggage - 12/05/2007
John McCarthy with travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation.
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Excess Baggage - 12/06/2010
John McCarthy visits Oberammergau in Bavaria and finds that the Passion Play performed by the villagers attracts half a million visitors over five months.
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Excess Baggage - 12/07/2008
Travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation with Sandi Toksvig.
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Excess Baggage - 12/09/2009
Sandi Toksvig talks to Alan Whicker about his lifetime of travelling and to Stephen Fry about going in search of endangered animals.
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Excess Baggage - 12/12/2009
Sandi Toksvig meets Lady Mary Fretwell and Belinda Harley to discover how to approach travelling abroad with pets and Rob Crossan recalls his visit to Hanoi in Vietnam.
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Excess Baggage - 13/01/2007
John McCarthy with travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation.
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Excess Baggage - 13/02/2010
John McCarthy talks to renowned photographer Don McCullin about his lifetime of travel and to writers Monica Porter and Andrew Eames about how Hungary has changed as a destination.
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Excess Baggage - 13/03/2010
Sandi Toksvig explores the relationship between landscape and writing in Somerset and the Scottish Highlands and travels along the Suez Canal.
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Excess Baggage - 13/06/2009
John McCarthy talks to Richard Stilgoe and Sam Miller about the contrasts between ancient and modern, rich and poor in Delhi; Pete Brown explains how pale ale made its way to India.
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Excess Baggage - 13/09/2008
Sandi Toksvig explores the adventures, frustrations and joys of travel.
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Excess Baggage - 13/10/2007
Travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation with John McCarthy.
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Excess Baggage - 13/12/2008
Sandi Toksvig explores the adventures, frustrations and joys of travel.
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Excess Baggage - 14/02/2009
John McCarthy explores the adventures, frustrations and joys of travel.
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Excess Baggage - 14/03/2009
John McCarthy explores the adventures, frustrations and joys of travel.
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Excess Baggage - 14/04/2007
Sandi Toksvig with travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation.
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Excess Baggage - 14/06/2008
Travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation with John McCarthy.
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Excess Baggage - 14/07/2007
Sandi Toksvig with travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation.
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Excess Baggage - 14/11/2009
John McCarthy talks to writer Jan Morris about people encountered in a lifetime of travel and journalist Dea Birkett reveals the older traveller's favourite things.
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Excess Baggage - 15/03/2008
Travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation with Sandi Toksvig.
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Excess Baggage - 15/05/2010
John McCarthy talks to science writer Anil Ananthaswamy about travelling to remote observatories and travel journalist Juliet Rix about the neolithic temples of Malta.
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Excess Baggage - 15/08/2009
John McCarthy explores the Lake District, interesting British lakes and rivers and swimming holidays in Finland.
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Excess Baggage - 15/09/2007
Travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation with Sandi Toksvig.
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Excess Baggage - 15/11/2008
John McCarthy explores the adventures, frustrations and joys of travel.
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Excess Baggage - 15/12/2007
Travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation with Sandi Toksvig.
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Excess Baggage - 16/01/2010
John McCarthy talks to Christopher Alexander about carpet weaving in Uzbekistan, to Deborah Moggach about women's roles in Ghana and Clive Harber about being an academic in Africa.
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Excess Baggage - 16/02/2008
Travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation with John McCarthy.
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Excess Baggage - 16/05/2009
John McCarthy talks to winners of the Whitley Award for Wildlife Conservation and hears why Corfu is so popular with the British.
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Excess Baggage - 16/06/2007
John McCarthy with travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation.
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Excess Baggage - 16/08/2008
Travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation. Sandi Toksvig takes a trip on a narrowboat on the Wey Navigation in Surrey.
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Excess Baggage - 16/10/2010
John McCarthy talks to Doreen Tayler who explored the India of Kipling's novel Kim and to Mark Ellingham and Paul Smith about phone apps and tweeting for the traveller.
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Excess Baggage - 17/01/2009
John McCarthy explores the adventures, frustrations and joys of travel.
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Excess Baggage - 17/03/2007
Sandi Toksvig with travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation.
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Excess Baggage - 17/04/2010
John McCarthy looks at tourism in troubled Zimbabwe with Douglas Rogers and John Berry and hears from Tom Fort about retracing a journey he made in Eastern Europe 20 years ago.
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Excess Baggage - 17/05/2008
Travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation with John McCarthy.
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Excess Baggage - 17/07/2010
Sandi Toksvig discusses with author Ian Thomson and journalist Lindsay Johns whether Jamaica is a risky destination and artist Layla Curtis talks about her work in Sarawak.
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Excess Baggage - 17/10/2009
John McCarthy talks to two people retracing the steps of WWII POWs - Tom Carver in Italy and Julie Summers at the River Kwai - and to guide Diego Torres about Ecuador's diversity.
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Excess Baggage - 17/11/2007
Travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation with John McCarthy.
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Excess Baggage - 18/04/2009
Sandi Toksvig talks to Alex Meredith about his 4,000km bicycle ride across Kazakhstan and to Trevor Watson and Jonathon Gray of the Caravan Club about the popularity of caravanning.
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Excess Baggage - 18/07/2009
Sandi Toksvig explores London's City Wall and finds out about the popularity of 'laughter yoga' in Mumbai.
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Excess Baggage - 18/08/2007
Travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation with Sandi Toksvig.
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Excess Baggage - 18/10/2008
John McCarthy explores the adventures, frustrations and joys of travel.
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Excess Baggage - 18/12/2004
John McCarthy with travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation.
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Excess Baggage - 18/12/2010
Anita Anand explores the adventures, frustrations and joys of travel.
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Excess Baggage - 19/01/2008
Travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation with John McCarthy.
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Excess Baggage - 19/04/2008
Travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation with Sandi Toksvig.
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Excess Baggage - 19/05/2007
John McCarthy with travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation.
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Excess Baggage - 19/06/2010
John McCarthy finds that the Bavarian capital Munich has plenty of both old and new attractions to recommend it to the visitor.
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Excess Baggage - 19/07/2008
Travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation with Sandi Toksvig.
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Excess Baggage - 19/09/2009
Sandi Toksvig contrasts oil-rich cities Abu Dhabi and Lagos with the help of Jo Tatchell and Michael Peel, and asks Matthew Teller why the petrol-crazy Gulf states want a railway.
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Excess Baggage - 19/12/2009
Sandi Toksvig hears from David Halfpenny about British pyramids, Ruth Breckman about opera houses round the world and Jeremy Hillman about the travels of a cargo container.
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Excess Baggage - 20/01/2007
John McCarthy with travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation.
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Excess Baggage - 20/02/2010
John McCarthy asks author Laila Lalami about Casablanca's romantic reputation and discusses the future of the Arctic with travellers there, Charles Emerson and Richard Sale.
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Excess Baggage - 20/03/2010
Sandi Toksvig asks Simon Reeve about his journey round the Tropic of Cancer and talks about Arnhemland, Australia with writer Wendy Gomersall and Sab Lord, who was raised there.
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Excess Baggage - 20/06/2009
John McCarthy talks to photographers Lisa Young, Adrian Arbib and Bill Birkett about the different experiences and aims of taking pictures on their travels.
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Excess Baggage - 20/09/2008
Sandi Toksvig explores the adventures, frustrations and joys of travel.
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Excess Baggage - 20/10/2007
Travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation with John McCarthy.
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Excess Baggage - 20/12/2008
Sandi Toksvig explores the adventures, frustrations and joys of travel.
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Excess Baggage - 21/02/2009
John McCarthy explores the adventures, frustrations and joys of travel.
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Excess Baggage - 21/03/2009
Sandi Toksvig explores the adventures, frustrations and joys of travel.
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Excess Baggage - 21/04/2007
Sandi Toksvig with travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation.
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Excess Baggage - 21/06/2008
Travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation with John McCarthy.
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Excess Baggage - 21/07/2007
Travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation with Sandi Toksvig.
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Excess Baggage - 21/11/2009
John McCarthy explores the relationship between human rights and travel - what should the responsible tourist be aware of whilst journeying? Plus music travel in the US.
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Excess Baggage - 22/03/2008
Travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation. David Stafford visits Marrakesh and discovers how the town is reinventing itself for modern tourists.
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Excess Baggage - 22/05/2010
John McCarthy finds out from Cathy Giangrande about the plethora of museums in China and from Jon Magnusson and John Beatty about visiting the erupting Icelandic volcano.
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Excess Baggage - 22/08/2009
Sandi Toksvig follows in the footsteps of ancient Greek Herodotus and goes in search of Tibetan singing bowls.
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Excess Baggage - 22/09/2007
Travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation with Sandi Toksvig.
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Excess Baggage - 22/11/2008
John McCarthy explores the adventures, frustrations and joys of travel.
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Excess Baggage - 22/12/2007
Travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation with Sandi Toksvig.
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Excess Baggage - 23/01/2010
John McCarthy talks to Charlie McGrath about safety while travelling off the beaten track, to Sarah Porter and James Lewis about North Pakistan, and Claire Boobbyer about Cuba.
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Excess Baggage - 23/02/2008
Travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation. John McCarthy visits the National Railway Museum in York to look at the past, present and future of train travel.
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Excess Baggage - 23/05/2009
John McCarthy talks to Sir David Attenborough about his early journeys abroad to film wildlife in the 1950s and how they compare with the modern travel experience.
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Excess Baggage - 23/06/2007
Sandi Toksvig with travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation.
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Excess Baggage - 23/08/2008
Travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation with Sandi Toksvig.
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Excess Baggage - 24/01/2009
John McCarthy explores the adventures, frustrations and joys of travel.
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Excess Baggage - 24/02/2007
John McCarthy with travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation.
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Excess Baggage - 24/03/2007
Sandi Toksvig with travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation.
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Excess Baggage - 24/04/2010
John McCarthy hears from Alistair Moffat and Charles FitzRoy how history is at the heart of Tuscan tourism, and what made Leigh Richardson buy a farm in Brazil?
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Excess Baggage - 24/05/2008
Travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation with John McCarthy.
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Excess Baggage - 24/07/2010
Sandi Toksvig discovers a new side to Switzerland with author Diccon Bewes and talks to Kate Humble about a scheme in which travellers stuff their rucksacks with much-needed items.
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Excess Baggage - 24/10/2009
John McCarthy talks to wilderness expert Ray Mears about travelling across northern Canada and to wildlife photographer Ben Hall about his trip to South America.
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Excess Baggage - 24/11/2007
Travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation with John McCarthy.
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Excess Baggage - 25/04/2009
Sandi Toksvig talks to Nicholas Clapton and Chris Maslanka about their fondness for Budapest and to Roger George Clark about his photgraphs of the Isle of Wight in the 1960s.
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Excess Baggage - 25/07/2009
Sandi Toksvig hears about Robin Hanbury-Tenison's horseride across Albania, and Jane Owen and Bex Bailey's visit to the Baka people in Cameroon.
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Excess Baggage - 25/08/2007
Travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation with Sandi Toksvig.
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Excess Baggage - 25/10/2008
John McCarthy explores the adventures, frustrations and joys of travel.
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Excess Baggage - 26/01/2008
Travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation with John McCarthy.
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Excess Baggage - 26/04/2008
Travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation with Sandi Toksvig.
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Excess Baggage - 26/05/2007
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Excess Baggage - 26/06/2010
Sandi Toksvig talks to Loyd Grossman about tourism at Cambodian temples and to Dr Jane Hamilton and journalist Michael Howard about Kurdistan as a holiday destination.
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Excess Baggage - 26/07/2008
Travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation with Benedict Allen.
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Excess Baggage - 26/09/2009
John McCarthy talks to William Dalrymple about mysticism in modern India, Tom Priestley about England in the1930s and Candida Lycett Green about her favourite English places.
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Excess Baggage - 27/02/2010
John McCarthy talks to zoologist Mark Carwardine about his life of travel observing wildlife and takes a European look at Mexico with writers Chloe Aridjis and Robin Bayley.
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Excess Baggage - 27/03/2010
Sandi Toksvig visits Tanzania and in a programme from Dar es Salaam talks about the importance of tourism for one of the poorest countries in Africa.
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Excess Baggage - 27/06/2009
Sandi Toksvig talks to Philip Parker about his journey round the edge of the Roman empire and hears from Ismini Samanidou about weaving around the world.
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Excess Baggage - 27/09/2008
John McCarthy explores the adventures, frustrations and joys of travel.
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Excess Baggage - 27/10/2007
Travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation with John McCarthy.
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Excess Baggage - 27/12/2008
Sandi Toksvig goes to a postcard fair with photographer and collector Martin Parr and discovers what postcards of the past tell us about the history of holidays.
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Excess Baggage - 28/02/2009
John McCarthy explores the adventures, frustrations and joys of travel.
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Excess Baggage - 28/03/2009
Sandi Toksvig explores the adventures, frustrations and joys of travel.
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Excess Baggage - 28/04/2007
John McCarthy with travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation.
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Excess Baggage - 28/06/2008
Travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation with Sandi Toksvig.
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Excess Baggage - 28/07/2007
Travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation with John McCarthy.
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Excess Baggage - 28/11/2009
Sandi Toksvig talks to Christopher Somerville about scenic journeys in Britain and to Huon Mallalieu and Chas Jones about recreating King Harold's march to the Battle of Hastings.
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Excess Baggage - 29/03/2008
Travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation with Sandi Toksvig.
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Excess Baggage - 29/05/2010
John McCarthy goes on the trail of a Persian poet with author Nicholas Jubber and discusses tourism in Libya with Conde Nast Traveller editor Sarah Miller and author Roger Jones.
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Excess Baggage - 29/08/2009
Sandi Toksvig visits the traditional Yorkshire seaside town of Filey and, with the help of the ex-Mayor Marion Wright, discovers how it is faring in the 21st century.
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Excess Baggage - 29/09/2007
Travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation with John McCarthy.
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Excess Baggage - 29/11/2008
Sandi Toksvig explores the adventures, frustrations and joys of travel.
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Excess Baggage - 29/12/2007
Travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation with David Stafford.
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Excess Baggage - 30/01/2010
John McCarthy explores Germany with two writers and asks why more British tourists don't visit.
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Excess Baggage - 30/05/2009
Paleopathologist Alice Roberts tells John McCarthy about the early days of human migration and writer Andrew Westoll discusses the little-known South American country of Surinam.
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Excess Baggage - 30/06/2007
Sandi Toksvig with travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation.
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Excess Baggage - 30/08/2008
Travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation with Sandi Toksvig.
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Excess Baggage - 31/01/2009
John McCarthy explores the adventures, frustrations and joys of travel.
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Excess Baggage - 31/03/2007
Sandi Toksvig with travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation.
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Excess Baggage - 31/05/2008
Travellers' tales, anecdotes and conversation with John McCarthy.
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Excess Baggage - 31/07/2010
Sandi uncovers the secrets of Florence and Naples with author Lucretia Grindle and photographer Johnnie Shand Kydd. She also hears about a musical exploration of Welsh Patagonia.
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Excess Baggage - 31/10/2009
John McCarthy explores Berlin and travels with the British Army.
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Excess Baggage - Afghanistan
Sandi Toksvig explores Afghanistan with travel writer Jason Elliot, BBC foreign correspondent Jill McGivering and ski-mountaineer Suzy Madge.
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Excess Baggage - Alaska - Zambia - Cycle path to Paris
John McCarthy talks to actress Imogen Stubbs about her passion for Alaska, Abraham Banda, a wildlife guide in Zambia, and Stephen Mulvey about a new London to Paris cycle trail.
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Excess Baggage - British Countryside and Tasmania
John McCarthy talks to Michael Allen and Patrick Barkham about what draws people into the British countryside, and to Susanna Hoe about visiting Tasmania.
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Excess Baggage - Bus trip
Sandi Toksvig takes listener Sonia Mabberly's advice and travels on the 49 bus route from Swindon to Devizes on market day, calling at Avebury on the way.
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Excess Baggage - Family History - Paraguay
Sandi Toksvig meets Martin Davidson who went to Germany and Rob Curling who visited Malaysia to trace their family histories, and talks to Margaret Hebblethwaite about Paraguay.
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Excess Baggage - Hot-air balloons - Wildlife conservation
John McCarthy meets Dani Maimone, a former balloon pilot in Kenya, and George McGavin and Kathy Wilden discuss the thrill of seeing animals in the wild.
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Excess Baggage - Human Rights - Patagonia
John McCarthy talks to Bianca Jagger about her life of travel as a human rights advocate and to actor Matthew Rhys about his historical horse trek in Welsh Patagonia.
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Excess Baggage - Lebanon - Paris/Normandy
John McCarthy explores Paris with Independent newspaper correspondent John Lichfield and the Lebanon with photographer Max Milligan and historian Philip Mansel.
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Excess Baggage - Medics abroad and Bridges
John McCarthy talks to ophthalmologist Lucy Mathen and kidney transplant surgeon Andrew Ready about their work abroad, and to Dan Cruickshank about bridges around the world.
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Excess Baggage - Nagasaki - Slow travel canoe
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.
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Excess Baggage - Pit villages - Overland with children across Africa
John McCarthy explores the Great Northern Coalfield in North East England with writer Peter Crookston and meets the young family who travelled 4,000 miles across Africa.
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Excess Baggage - Places of worship/retreats - The paintings of Sir Winston Churchill
Sandi Toksvig explores the pleasures of going on a retreat and visits some of the places painted by Sir Winston Churchill.
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Excess Baggage - Quiz
Peter Curran chairs a Boxing Day travel quiz in which Sandi Toksvig and Dr Alice Roberts challenge John McCarthy and Arthur Smith.
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Excess Baggage - South America 'Wild coast' - Volunteering abroad
John McCarthy explores the wild coasts of Suriname, French Guiana and Guyana in South America and examines the pleasures and pitfalls of travelling and volunteering abroad.
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Excess Baggage - Syria - Sark
John McCarthy talks to Dr Lavinia Byrne and Amelia Stewart about what Syria has to offer the traveller fascinated by history and to Steve Blacknell about the serenity of Sark.
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Excess Baggage - Tanzania - Iringa and Zanzibar
Sandi Toksvig sees two contrasting aspects of Tanzania when she visits Iringa in the centre of the country and the exotic island of Zanzibar.
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Excess Baggage - The Dark Tourist - Florida
Sandi Toksvig explores Florida in the company of the former British Vice Consul in Orlando and some lesser known tourist destinations with Dom Joly.
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Excess Baggage - Travel Quiz
Peter Curran presents a special Excess Baggage quiz for Christmas with John McCarthy, Sandi Toksvig, Lucy Porter and Benedict Allen.
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Excess Baggage - Villages, Ordnance Survey and Finland
John McCarthy looks at the British landscape through its villages with Clive Aslet, Ordnance Survey maps with Rachel Hewitt and at Finland with John Murolo.
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Excess Baggage - Walking in Madeira, Europe and Gambia
John McCarthy talks to Peter Tatchel about hiking in Tasmania and Madeira, Richard Sale about walks in Europe and to Jason Florio and Helen Jones about going round Gambia on foot.
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Excess Baggage - Yemen - The Sun
John McCarthy talks to Tim Mackintosh-Smith and Ginny Hill about the delights and dangers of Yemen and Richard Cohen about his travels in search of cults of the sun.
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