This is the BBC.

Welcome to Late Night Women's Hour. We're going travelling. Imagine yourself streaming through time. Shed gloves, umbrellas, wrenches, books, friends, homes, names. This is what the world looks like if you take a rear-facing seat on a train. Looking forward, you constantly acquire moments of arrival, moments of real realization, moments of discovery. The wind blows

your hair back and you are greeted by what you have never seen before. So writes Rebecca Solnit

in her book, a field guide to getting lost. 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. The journeys of female adventurers like

Cheryl Strad and Robin Davidson capture the public imagination. We'll be discussing this month

the pleasures and pitfalls of wonderlust with some very well-travelled women.

Lois Price has travelled the world alone on her motorbike,

named one of the greatest female travellers by The Daily Telegraph.

She's written a number of books about her life as,

Her word, an adventurous.

Welcome.

Hello.

Rana Rahimpur 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.

Welcome, Rana.

Hello.

Carolyn Pearson is the founder of Women's Travel Network Made in Voyage.

It seeks to make life easier for women travelling alone and was inspired by her own experiences.

...