Best Krakow Stories Podcast Podcasts (2024)

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Jessi Jezewska Stevens on Geneva, Gettysburg, Krakow, Tuscany, Siberia, Indiana; on writing for two days and editing for a year; on honeymoons; on precise descriptions and hope; on landing in JFK; and ... 43:47

16d ago43:47

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Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan. This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home. In this edition, I’m joined by the writer Jessi Jezewska Stev…

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Hilary Bradt on getting lost; on the Galapagos and Inca Trail in the 1970s; on aerograms v social media; on hitch-hiking at 82; on her guidebooks to Burma, Iraq, Iran and N Korea; on public footpaths and ... 35:50

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Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan. This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home. In this edition, I’m joined by the writer Hilary Bradt to dis…

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Ginanne Brownell on hearing clarinets and trombones by a Nairobi city dump; on a fairytale morphing; on big skies; on searching for a cemetery by Lake Michigan; on her next book: a global surrogacy journey ... 28:59

4M ago28:59

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Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan. This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home. In this edition, I’m joined by the writer Ginanne Brownell, t…

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Nastassja Martin on her near-death encounter with a Kamchatka bear; on the boundaries between humankind and nature; on linear v spiral storytelling; on being in between worlds; on dreams, and on waking ... 49:44

6M ago49:44

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Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan. This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home. In this edition, I’m joined by the writer Nastassja Martin to…

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Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ on life in Lagos and Norwich; on how family pressure shapes you; on hope as something active; on walking to get out of one’s head; on random news items; and on writing a story, leaving ... 42:51

8M ago42:51

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Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan. This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home. In this edition, I’m joined by the writer Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ t…

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Daljit Nagra on his sense of mischief; on abandoning 30 line poems; on his first language Punjabi; on listening to Miles Davis; on fully expecting to fail; on the nine-metre man and snake gods; and on ... 36:35

11M ago36:35

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Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan. This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home.In this edition, I’m joined by the writer Daljit Nagra to disc…

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Khashayar J Khabushani on hyphenated identity; on Dodgers jerseys and drinking beer; on memoir v fiction; on belonging where we are born; on hopefulness and youthfulness; on the myth of LA; and on missing ... 45:01

12M ago45:01

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Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan. This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home. In this edition, I’m joined by the writer Khashayar J Khabush…

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Hanne Ørstavik on love, love and more love; on travelling with her books; on openness and vulnerability as two sides of the same thing; on 16 books written as one big novel; on the power of silence in ... 47:21

12M ago47:21

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Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan. This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home. In this edition, I’m joined by the writer Hanne Ørstavik to d…

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Damian Le Bas on rambunctious families; on van life; on slag heaps and rubbish tips; on lecturing kids; on the only seasons of summer and winter; on the question “where are you from?”; and on looking like ... 47:07

1y ago47:07

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Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan. This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home.In this edition, I’m joined by the writer Damian Le Bas to dis…

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Sophie Ward on experimental education; on flaws and frailties and guilt; on saying “my wife”; on child acting; on the US-Vietnam War; on her superpower; on writing more about Detective Sergeant Carter; ... 39:04

1y ago39:04

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Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan. This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home.In this edition, I’m joined by the writer Sophie Ward to discu…

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Malaysian Cuisine & Culture - Veena & Didi 28:43

1y ago28:43

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Veena and Didi discuss Malaysian cuisine, and the culture behind it, having recently introduced Indo-Malay food to Kraków Both are chef's, Didi has opened Batik restaurant in Kazimierz, whilst Veena is a personal chef who does 'Craze Asia' pop up dining events, where she shares food, based on her very exotic and mixed Asian roots.…

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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o on riding matatus in Kenya; on the community he misses most; on torture and imagination; on the fun of writing a book on toilet paper; on birds, bees and butterflies; on which book is ... 52:02

1y ago52:02

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Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan. This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home.In this edition, I’m joined by the writer and scholar Ngũgĩ wa…

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Juan Sarabia - Kraków Music & the Kraków music scene 34:00

1+ y ago34:00

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Juan Sarabia, originally from Monterrey, Mexico, he has been living in Kraków for almost 20 years.He describes himself as 'an industrial engineer gone rogue' - though we think 'Juan the music man', is more apt.Juan is very well know in the Kraków music scene as the driving force behind Kraków Music.You may know him from his past adventures at Euroc…

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Juan Sarabia - Kraków Music & the Krakow music scene 34:00

1+ y ago34:00

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Juan Sarabia, originally from Monterrey, Mexico, has been living in Kraków for almost 20 years. He describes himself as 'an industrial engineer gone rogue' - though we think 'Juan the music man', is more apt. Juan is very well know in the Kraków music scene as the driving force behind Kraków Music.By David McGirr - Kraków Stories Podcast

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Doreen Cunningham on Arctic ice; on bullying; on community as hope; on the fact there are whales singing in the sea still, in spite of it all; on Amtrak trains; on bank loans and luck; on mothering; on ... 47:04

1+ y ago47:04

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Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan. This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home. In this edition, I’m joined by the writer Doreen Cunningham t…

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Kylie Moore-Gilbert on her most treasured possession in prison; on training herself to memorise everything in a room, and on recall; on solitary confinement, hope and freedom; on how it feels to be in ... 34:20

1+ y ago34:20

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Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan. This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home. In this edition, I’m joined by the writer and scholar Kylie M…

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Osman Yousefzada on writing about a community that didn’t want to be documented; on illiteracy; on being polite; on his photographic memory and eye for detail; on being on an eternal road; on the right ... 37:50

1+ y ago37:50

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Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan. This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home. In this edition, I speak with the writer Osman Yousefzada to …

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Frances Stonor Saunders on stamp-collecting; on Alzheimer’s and collective amnesia; on folding maps the wrong way; on what you would take if you were fleeing; on subversive humour; on inanimate objects; ... 45:08

1+ y ago45:08

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Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan. This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home. In this edition, I speak with the writer Frances Stonor Saund…

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Justin Marozzi on what makes a city great; on wanting to live in Istanbul, but not Jerusalem; on finding your bearings in time and space; on pilgrimages; on feeling like an outsider more than ever; on ... 42:17

1+ y ago42:17

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Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan. This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home. In this edition, I speak with the writer Justin Marozzi to di…

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Roger Robinson on roadtripping around Britain's coastline; on the white light of Trinidad; on Black Joy; on what he sees looking at the sea; on moving to Marseille, or anywhere; on police knees on throats; ... 44:09

1+ y ago44:09

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Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan. This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home. In this edition, I speak with the writer Roger Robinson to di…

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Anthony Sattin on nomadic thinking; on whether one plus one really does equal two; on the survival of the hunter-gatherer; on assabiyah; on digital nomads; on Bruce Chatwin’s unpublished writing; on telling ... 40:04

1+ y ago40:04

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Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan. This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home. In this edition, I speak with the writer Anthony Sattin to di…

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Palermo Sicily - Where we stayed and dispelled myths 17:23

1+ y ago17:23

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Join us as we chat about this Italian city on the island of Sicily. Mafia, horses, and one of the best places to stay. It's almost like cracking the DaVinci code at times. Listen now for some interesting travel tales. The Travel Instigator takes you with us without kidnapping you. Sophi Ibbotson is our guest on this episode.…

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Ariana Neumann on inherited memory; on getting angry in Spanish; on wanting to speak Czech and have a little house on the Vltava; on the migrant crisis in Venezuela; on betrayal and hope; on travelling ... 46:36

1+ y ago46:36

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Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan. This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home. In this edition, I speak with the writer Ariana Neumann to di…

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Mother & daughter Karen Joy Fowler and Shannon Leone Fowler on historical fact, the imagination and the revision of memory; on childhood freedoms and unstructured time; on keeping a journal; on the heroics ... 49:37

2y ago49:37

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Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan. This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home. In this edition, I talk to the mother and daughter pairing Ka…

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Tim Mackintosh-Smith on the settled v the wanderer; on capital letters and capital cities; on his hometown San’a; on mesmerising language, the heft of translation and sonorous tripe; on libraries, scud ... 46:11

2y ago46:11

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Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan. This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home. In this edition, I speak with the writer Tim Mackintosh-Smith…

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Mona Arshi on transitioning from lawyer to poet to novelist; on silence; on the energy of adolescence; on not wanting to be persuasive; on listening to birdsong and hearing Punjabi; on writing on trains; ... 37:04

2y ago37:04

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Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan. This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home. In this edition, I speak with the writer Mona Arshi to discus…

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Crack up in Krakow 21:31

2y ago21:31

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David and Peta take on Poland, without really eating too many local dishes but getting their travel appetite satiated along with a Michael Myers cameo from the movie Halloween. We can't make this stuff up.

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David, Peta, and Sophi chat travel 13:00

2y ago13:00

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This episode finds Sophi in England's Lake District with a cheese sommelier, roaming goats and a posh stay at Rothay Manor Boutique Hotel & Restaurant for another Gastronomic Gallivant in Swanky Retreats. Get the behind the scenes look at TravelInstigator.com

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Winnie M Li on the author as activist; on sexual assault and consent and #metoo; on writing both perspectives — of perpetrator and victim; on the memories we can choose, and those foisted upon us; and ... 36:05

2y ago36:05

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Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan. This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home. In this edition, I speak with the writer Winnie M Li to discu…

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Gastronomic Gallivant in the English Countryside 12:24

2y ago12:24

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Sophi goes foraging and can now --possibly-- survive a zombie apocalypse, but that's the furthest thing from anyone's mind as she indulges in the luxurious Burleigh Court. There's so much out there. Let's all travel outside the obvious. As seen in Swanky Retreats

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Sophi goes to Malta 9:29

2y ago9:29

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Travel Instigator introduces you to Malta via one of their Swanky Retreats magazine writers, Sophie Ibbotson. Her Letter From feature covers the delicious walled city of Mdina. Have a listen as her gorgeous English accent takes you on a little tour.

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Jennifer Steil on unexpected connections between places; on "in between-ness"; on friendship in Yemen; on the Jewish diaspora in Bolivia; on the Aral Sea in Uzbekistan; on living in a permanent state of ... 36:53

2y ago36:53

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Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan. This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home. In this edition, I speak with the writer Jennifer Steil to di…

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A Stitchy Situation 11:04

2y ago11:04

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Peta breaks the summer issue down for listeners, but first, there's stitch that she needs to scratch! Prepare to listen to her moan about it as well as highlight some of the fabulous travel stories in the current issue. There's also a new button on www.SwankyRetreats.comCaribbeanLivingMagazine.com that can get you the digital issue immediately...it…

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Season 2: We are Back, Baby! 3:05

2y ago3:05

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Peta and David welcome listeners back for season 2. Higher hilarity will ensue as the two take their listeners around the world and across the US. A little talking over each other...a little rusty, but hang in there.

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"War Child" Emmanuel Jal on a special edition of The Wandering Book Collector, including the title track of his new album Shangah 31:07

2y ago31:07

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Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan. This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home. In this special edition, I speak with Emmanuel Jal to discuss…

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Kathryn D. Sullivan on our oceans; on an adventurous childhood; on maps and plotting journeys; on moving in microgravity; on time travel; on a ticket to Mars; on Moscow during the Cold War; and on losing ... 33:53

2y ago33:53

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Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan. This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home. In this edition, I speak with the writer Kathryn D. Sullivan …

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Preti Taneja on finding the words; on collective grief; on Partition; on the question of home and how prison is never home; on the inevitability of political writing; on anguish; on the necessary fiction ... 30:23

2y ago30:23

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Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan. This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home. In this edition, I speak with the writer Preti Taneja to disc…

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Rebecca Mead on the to-ing and fro-ing between New York and London; on being mis/understood; on migration in your 20s v your 50s; on Trieste; on eavesdropping on buses — with TWBC 37:57

2y ago37:57

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Welcome to The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan. This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home. In this edition, I speak with the journalist and writer Rebecca Mead to discuss her lates…

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Horatio Clare on madness, mania and healing; on migrating swallows; on keeping a diary; on being the other in othering; on "the love of many things" and Van Gogh — with TWBC 37:13

2y ago37:13

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Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan. This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home. In this edition, I speak with the inimitable travel writer Ho…

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Brigid Delaney on restlessness, on the mania around wellness, on Seneca and stoicism, on Australia's tough lockdown and where she is choosing to go first (Bali), not forgetting cockatoos — with TWBC 33:21

2+ y ago33:21

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Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan. This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home. In this edition, I speak with the travel writer and columnist…

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Geoffrey Kent on a special SAFARI edition of The Wandering Book Collector 17:25

2+ y ago17:25

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Welcome to this special SAFARI edition of The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan. This podcast is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home. In this edition, I speak with Geoffrey Kent to dis…

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Sara Wheeler on Russia and its writers of the Golden Age: Pushkin, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Dostoyevsky, Chekhov, and on language, translation, etymology and bathmats across nine time zones -- with TWBC 46:13

2+ y ago46:13

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Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan. This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home. In this edition, I speak with the travel writer and biographe…

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Kapka Kassabova on the Balkans, on growing up behind the Iron Curtain, on the inheritance of pain, on writing by water, on alchemistry, on healing -- with TWBC 36:35

2+ y ago36:35

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Half-way into the first season, welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan. This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home. In this edition, I speak with…

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Maaza Mengiste on Ethiopia, on women in war, on pulling the trigger, on photography, on writing in Rome, on standing before monuments to fascism, on Project 3541 -- with TWBC 36:56

2+ y ago36:56

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Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan. This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home. In this edition, I speak with the most lyrical of writers Maa…

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The Villa Vacation 15:12

2+ y ago15:12

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Casa de Campo spoils David and Peta for choice when it comes to accommodation selections. Tune in to hear Peta chat about the difference between a regular resort stay and a villa vacation.

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Carla Power on how to deradicalise your town, on the journey back from extremism, on a childhood across Afghanistan, India, Iran and Egypt, as well as St Louis, Missouri, and on the Islamic feminist theologian ... 32:29

2+ y ago32:29

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Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan. This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, belonging and home. In this edition, I speak with the dauntless journalist and wr…

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Cracked ribs don't stop this travel duo from enjoying the lap of luxury at Casa de Campo (Pt. 2) 21:43

2+ y ago21:43

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David and Peta continue their stay at Casa de Campo. Turns out that a motorcycle crash can't keep the duo from enjoying the finest Caribbean resort. David shoots clays while Peta navigates the luxury 7,000 acre with her film buddy from Amazon studios. www.TravelInstigator.com

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Shoot Your Shot at Casa de Campo (Part 1) 10:12

2+ y ago10:12

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Peta and David give the details of there harrowing pre-trip to the Dominican Republic. Their luxury getaway to Casa de Campo almost didn't happen. Listen to hear what came crashing down just before they were set to takeoff. Buckle up buttercups! www.TravelInstigator.com

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Afua Hirsch on London, Senegal, Ghana, on imperial nostalgia, on the African diaspora, on plane journeys, and on choosing a name for her daughter -- with TWBC 28:06

2+ y ago28:06

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Welcome to the travel/literary podcast The Wandering Book Collector with host Michelle Jana Chan. This is a series of conversations with writers exploring what's informed their books and their lives around themes of movement, memory, sense of place, borders, identity, longing and belonging, and home. In this edition, I speak with the media multi-hy…

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Packing It All In 16:52

2+ y ago16:52

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Peta and David chat about their travel packing styles. Carryon, check it or check it and carry on? Peta rolls with things and david lays it all out. What's in your bag? www.TravelInstigator.com

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