Clive Myrie
The Travel Diaries
Holly Rubenstein
4.6 • 758 Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Today’s guest is a familiar face to millions all over the world as a BBC newsreader and foreign correspondent, with a career spanning three decades. He’s covered some of the biggest stories of our time from Hurricane Katrina, to 9/11; reported fro the front lines of conflicts in Africa, the Middle East and covered wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and most recently, Ukraine, reporting for BBC News from the roof of a hotel in the capital of Kyiv when the war broke out in February last year. He’s the host of Mastermind, and most recently swapped the BBC studios for sun-drenched Italian countryside, with his first travel show, Clive Myrie’s Italian Road Trip, a 15-part series, which follows Clive as he embarks on a captivating journey around the country, immersing himself in its culture, rich history and local cuisine from its heel to its top. We of course chat about this as well his hugely varied career which has taken him to over eighty countries in itself.
Destination Recap:
- Jamaica
- Italy
- Verona, Italy
- Puglia, Italy
- Matera, Italy
- Tokyo, Japan
- Hokaido, Japan
- Ukraine
- West Coast of USA
- East Coast of USA
- Home Counties, England
- Cape Town, South Africa
- Venice, Italy
- Washington DC, USA
- Afghanistan
- St Petersburg, Russia
- Sri Lanka
A huge thank you to Clive. What an interesting life he has led. Clive Myrie’s Italian Road Trip is available on BBC iPlayer.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Travel Diaries podcast. |
| 0:09.7 | I'm your host, journalist Holly Rubinstein, and here each week I'll be speaking to a very special guest about the seven chapters in their life's travel diaries. |
| 0:19.2 | From their earliest childhood travel memory and the first |
| 0:22.5 | place they fell in love with to their hidden gem and what's at the top of their travel bucket |
| 0:27.5 | list, we'll be uncovering their adventures around the world and the travel experiences and |
| 0:32.9 | destinations that have shaped their lives. Today's guest is a familiar face to millions all over the world as a BBC news reader and |
| 0:41.9 | foreign correspondent with a career spanning three decades. |
| 0:45.5 | He's covered some of the biggest stories of our time, from Hurricane Katrina to the COVID |
| 0:50.1 | pandemic and 9-11. |
| 0:51.9 | He's reported from the front lines of conflicts in Africa, the Middle East and |
| 0:55.5 | covered wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and most recently Ukraine, reporting from the BBC |
| 1:01.6 | from the roof of a hotel in the capital, Kiev when the war broke out a site that many of us |
| 1:06.4 | will remember. He's the host of Mastermind. Yes, of course, it is Clive Myrie. |
| 1:12.7 | Clive recently swapped to the BBC Studios for sun-drenched Italian countryside with his |
| 1:18.3 | first travel show, Clive Mirey's Italian road trip, a 15-part series which follows Clive as he |
| 1:24.1 | embarks on a captivating journey around the country, immersing himself in its culture, |
| 1:29.3 | its rich history and local cuisine, from its heel to its very top. So we of course chat about that, |
| 1:35.9 | as well as his hugely varied career, which has taken him to over 80 countries in itself. Clive |
| 1:42.6 | recently swapped the BBC Studios for sun-drenched Italian |
| 1:46.8 | countryside with his first travel show, Clive Myrie's Italian road trip, a 15-part series, |
| 1:53.2 | which follows Clive as he embarks on a gorgeous journey around the country, immersing himself |
| 1:58.5 | and its culture, rich history and local cuisine from the heel |
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