Serialised book readings, featuring works of non-fiction, biography, autobiography, travel, diaries, essays, humour and history
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Serialised book readings, featuring works of non-fiction, biography, autobiography, travel, diaries, essays, humour and history
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5/5. Sara Wheeler journeys to a remote archipelago and visits an ancient holy site in Russia.
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4/5. Sara Wheeler remembers some of the explorers who have sought the North Pole.
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3/5. Sara Wheeler flies above the huge Greenland ice sheet.
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2/5. Sara Wheeler finds traces of American entrepreneurial drive in the wide spaces of Alaska.
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1/5. Sara Wheeler begins her travels in the semi-inhabited fringes of Asian Russia.
11 more programmes coming up in the next 7 days.