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Adventure Rider Radio – Motorcycle Podcast

Elspeth Beard - First British Woman to Motorcycle Around the World

Adventure Rider Radio – Motorcycle Podcast

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🗓️ 2 September 2016

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Elspeth Beard - First British Woman to Motorcycle Around the World - Motorcycle Podcast

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0:00.0

Way back in 1984, Elsbeth Beard returned from a solo trip around the world by motorcycle.

0:12.0

When she got back, she realized that she was the first British woman to do that trip.

0:16.4

So she approached a couple of magazines and talked to some editors. She couldn't seem to interest anyone in her story.

0:22.4

So... So I got back and nobody wanted... she couldn't seem to interest anyone in her story.

0:23.0

So, I got back and nobody wanted to know, so I put all my books, my diaries, my journals, my photographs,

0:31.0

in just a cardboard box and that is where it stayed for 30 years. I didn't even

0:36.4

look at it. But times have changed. It was actually an agent in Hollywood who had seen

0:41.9

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0:46.3

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