The Big Travel Podcast

The Big Travel Podcast: Exploring Life-Stories Through Travel. Taking you on a journey of discovery, with a wonderfully diverse selection of characters, The Big Travel Podcast explores life-stories in travel; from childhoods with little money for much more than camping holidays to fabulous tales of exotic climes and incredible adventures. Politicians, Paralympians, famous faces from TV, radio, music, stage and screen, SAS soldiers, adventurers and ordinary people taking extraordinary journeys tell their story of life through travel, and through this, The Big Travel Podcast finds out what it is about travel that inspires us, that makes us laugh, love, cry and sometimes cringe yet above all keep travelling. The Big Travel Podcast is hosted by Lisa Francesca Nand, travel journalist, presenter, writer and filmmaker.

125. Christmas Special 2021; Sathnam Sanghera, Lisa Jewell, Matt Forde, Anne Sebba, Olly Mann, Greenham Common and more 12/20/2021

124. Firouz FarmanFarmaian; Escaping Tehran, Kashmiri Houseboats, Trekking Kyrgyzstan, Rock Bands and Contemporary Art 11/30/2021

123. On Location in Marbella Old Town with Tour Guide Javier Gonzalez 10/14/2021

122. Matt Forde; Billy Connolly in New York, Liam Gallagher in Berlin and Nick Leeson's Worldwide 'British Scandal' Jaunt 08/12/2021

121. Sam McManus; Adventure Travel When the World Closes, Costa Rica, Green Northern Spain and the Unexpected Pull of Home 07/26/2021

120. UK TRAVEL UPDATE; Travel Opens Up, Vaccines, Quarantine and a Call to Action to The Government 07/09/2021

119. UK TRAVEL UPDATE; New Rules, Traffic Lights, Vaccinations 06/25/2021

118. Olly Mann; Guns On Trucks in Malawi, Swim-Up Bar Piña Coladas, Greyhounds and The American Dream 05/26/2021

117. Huw Wyn; Arabian Nights in Cairo, Hitching Through Nepal, Tibetan Medicine in Scotland and Tom Hardy Dropping into his Festival 04/27/2021

116. Anne Sebba; Parisian Women and Nazis, Film Stars in Rome, ‘Communists’ in Sing Sing Prison 03/17/2021

115. Lisa Jewell; Family Roots in India, a Different Barbados and How Nothing Beats a Week in Lanzarote 02/23/2021

114. Sathnam Sanghera; Empire, Racism and Legacy, Brits Abroad and Boris Johnson’s Therapy 02/02/2021

113. Jamie Douglas-Hamilton; Treacherous Seas, Great Explorers and Crazy Hallucinations 01/07/2021

112. Christmas Special 2020; Bill Bailey, Laura Hamilton, India Hicks, Victoria Hislop, Lemn Sissay, Ella Al Shamahi, Charles Spencer and More 12/15/2020

111. Ella Al- Shamahi; Lost Kingdoms of the Amazon, Charismatic Tanzanian Animals and Yemenis in Birmingham 12/10/2020

110. Rachel Gotto; From Paralysis and Agoraphobia to China, Bhutan, India, the Dominican Republic and Beyond 11/27/2020

109. TV Baker Cynthia Stroud; Nigerian Childhood, Food Poverty and the Healing Power of Cake 11/10/2020

107. Samantha Kelly; ‘Tweeting Goddess’ on Ireland’s Beauty, Hong Kong Bar Dancing and the People Who Inspire Us 10/16/2020

106. Charles Spencer; Historic Monarchs, Worldwide News Reporting and the Ghosts of Althorp 09/24/2020

105. Justin Somper: Bestselling Vampirates Author on Australian Beaches, New York’s Studio 54, Magical Coincidences and Not So Magical Prejudices 09/15/2020

104. Loyd Grossman CBE; 1960s New York, Ecclesiastical Sock Makers and How Food Completes Travel 08/31/2020

103. Lemn Sissay MBE; Lancashire Care Homes, Life’s Language of Travel and How Poetry Gave Him Wings 08/19/2020

102. Laura Hamilton; A Place In The Sun, Quarantine, Coffee Shop Owning and The Wombles 08/07/2020

101. Iain Dale; Communist Russia, Italian Coach Trips, the SAS in Beirut and the Decline of Social Discourse 07/28/2020

100. Dr Hassan Shehata; World-Leading Miscarriage Expert on Torture in a Sudanese Prison, Bob Marley in Jamaica and Donald Trump on Medication 07/15/2020

99. Eulanda Shead Osagiede; Travel's Colonial History, Japanese Kimonos and Tanzanian Seaweed Collectors 07/02/2020

98. Boutique Hotelier, Francesca Eyre; Parisian Au Pairing, Irish Stately Homes and the Accident That Wiped Her Memory 06/17/2020

97. Hollywood Military Adviser, Paul Biddiss; Correcting George Clooney, Pinewood with Brad Pitt, Tenerife with Matt Damon and Surviving Emergency Chute Landings 06/01/2020

96. Kash Bhattacharya: The Budget Traveller, Grand Hostels, Finnish Cloudberries and Ancient Samurai Kingdoms 05/16/2020

95. Oliver Gee, The Earful Tower Podcast; Back-Street Paris, a Swedish Moose and the Great American Road-Trip (…yeah, baby) 04/28/2020