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Arts & Ideas

Tourism past and present

Arts & Ideas

BBC

Society & Culture

4.2598 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

The must see sights on the Grand Tour, in Cold War Moscow & tourist hot spots now. Rana Mitter is joined by Roey Sweet, Sarah Goldsmith, Nick Barnett, Cindy Yu and Simon Calder.

Producer: Torquil MacLeod.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the home of the oxymoron. Evil genius. He asked the newspaper to print his obituary early so he'd enjoy it. That's like hiding at your own funeral. Yeah, a big, great gig. I'm Russell Kane. Join me to weigh in on whether the biggest players in history are more evil or genius. Becoming that rich, I'd say that is some level of genius. It also helps that it's a long time ago, right?

0:23.3

It's like the podcast version of telling your kids the ice cream van plays music when it's out of ice cream.

0:28.8

Listen to evil genius on BBC Sounds.

0:33.2

BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts.

0:37.1

Hello, I'm Ron Amitter.

0:38.8

Welcome to BBC Radio 3's Arts and Ideas discussion program, which brings together leading

0:43.3

artists, writers and thinkers in conversation and debate.

0:46.6

If you enjoy what you hear, do subscribe.

0:49.6

Search for the Arts and Ideas podcast wherever you get your podcasts.

0:53.1

And while you're there, please rate and review us.

0:55.5

It'll help other people find us. Why does music move us? How does it do it? Well, if these are

1:01.5

questions that have been firing you up, I've got the very podcast for you. I'm Tom Service from BBC Radio

1:08.2

3 and from Schubert's symphonies to video game music,

1:11.3

from how to start a piece of music and when to end it.

1:14.6

From background music to birdsong, from Beethoven to Beyonce, from Bach to the future.

1:21.0

Thank you very much indeed.

1:22.7

The Listing Service podcast is your guide to how music works.

1:26.8

And all kinds of music to, the mastery

1:29.3

and mechanics behind the magic. Just search for the listening service on BBC Sounds and

1:35.2

learn more about the music we all love.

1:38.8

Hello, what is a tourist? Is it more than a traveller with attitude and Google Maps on her phone? And when did we

1:46.1

first start being tourists? Did the ancient Romans drop in at a Travelogem on the Appian Way? Or did

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