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Last broadcast on Sat, 26 Jun 2010, 10:00 on BBC Radio 4.
Synopsis
Sandi Toksvig asks broadcaster Loyd Grossman about his trip to Cambodia where he saw two very different approaches to managing visitors to the ancient temples: at a relatively unknown one, deep in the jungle, the local people are trying to avoid the mass tourism pitfalls of the world famous Angkor Wat.
Kurdistan in Northern Iraq may not seem the ideal place for a holiday but the regional government is encouraging tourists to such an extent that a theme park has been built. Sandi talks to journalist Michael Howard about the initiative and what the area has to offer and hears from Dr Janet Hamilton about her trip there to follow the road her engineer father built in the 1920s.
Loyd Grossman
Loyd Grossman is a journalist and broadcaster and is the face on a brand of sauces. He is currently the chair of the Churches Conservation Trust. Loyd Grossman recently travelled to Cambodia to visit the Hindu temple of Angkor Wat. He also went to a more remote temple complex at Banteay Chhmar preservation and tourist management of which is currently being led by Global Heritage Fund.
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Michael Howard
Michael Howard is a journalist and travel writer who wrote for the Economist and the Guardian from Iraq from 2000-2009. Michael’s father came from Kurdistan in the 60s to study at the LSE. Michael first travelled to Kurdistan in 2000 to trace his roots and he’s since been regularly visiting the region.
Janet Hamilton
Janet Hamilton is a doctor in Hampshire. In March and April this year she went with her husband and two sons to Kurdistan in Northern Iraq to follow the road that been built in 1928-32 by her father Archibald Hamilton.
In 1937 Hamilton wrote a memoir of his experience entitled Road through Kurdistan: Travels in Northern Iraq. In it he recounts the nature of the country he had to build the road through and the people of the area.
Road through Kurdistan: Travels in Northern Iraq (revised edition)
by A M Hamilton
Publisher: Tauris Parke Paperbacks
ISBN-10: 1850436371
ISBN-13: 978-1850436379
Road through Kurdistan: Travels in Northern Iraq (1958 edition)
by Archibald Milne Hamilton
Publisher: Faber; New ed edition
ASIN: B0000CK0JC
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