Late Night Woman's Hour: Travel & Adventure
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2017
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Women have always dreamed of escaping their ordinary lives - but it's only in recent history that travel has become a legitimate opportunity to do so - and then only for some. Lauren discusses the pleasures and pitfalls of wanderlust, with some very well-travelled women...
LOIS PRYCE has travelled the world alone on her motorbike. Named one of the greatest female travellers by the Daily Telegraph she has written a number of books about her life as - her word - and adventuress.
RANA RAHIMPOUR grew up in Iran and had to seek her parents' permission as a young female student to go travelling in her own country. Now based in London she presents on the BBC's Persian TV network. Her decision to move here means she cannot return to Iran even to visit because under the present regime BBC employees face arrest. She has also written about being stopped from travelling to the US by Donald Trump's travel ban....
CAROLYN PEARSON is the founder of women's travel network MAIDEN VOYAGE. It seeks to make life easier for women travelling alone, and was inspired by her own experiences.
VICTORIA ADE-GENSCHOW who was born in Manchester but is now based in Berlin. A passionate advocate of travelling with a family and on a budget, she blogs at thebritishberliner.com and her motto is "just go.".
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| 0:21.0 | And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less |
| 0:25.0 | searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC sounds welcome to late |
| 0:30.4 | night women's hour this month we're going traveling. |
| 0:33.2 | Imagine yourself streaming through time. |
| 0:36.0 | Shedding gloves, umbrellas, wrenches, books, friends, homes, names. |
| 0:41.3 | This is what the world looks like if you take a rear-facing seat on a train. |
| 0:45.4 | Looking forward you constantly acquire moments of arrival, moments of realization, moments of |
| 0:50.5 | discovery. The wind blows your hair back and you are greeted by what you have |
| 0:55.1 | never seen before. So writes Rebecca Solnut in her book, A Field Guide to Getting Lost. |
| 1:01.9 | Women have always dreamed of escaping their ordinary lives |
| 1:04.4 | but it's only in recent history that travel has become a legitimate opportunity to do |
| 1:08.8 | so and then only for some. The journeys of female adventurers like Cheryl Strayed and Robin Davidson capture the public |
| 1:16.2 | imagination. We'll be discussing this month the pleasures and pitfalls of wonderlust with some very well-traveled women. |
| 1:24.0 | Lois Price has travelled the world alone on her motorbike, |
| 1:27.0 | named one of the greatest female travellers by the Daily Telegraph, |
| 1:30.0 | she's written a number of books about her life as her word and adventurous. |
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