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Last broadcast on Sat, 16 Oct 2010, 10:00 on BBC Radio 4.
Synopsis
John McCarthy talks to Doreen Tayler who explored northwest India visiting places featuring in Rudyard Kipling's novel Kim. The trail lead her to places that defied her expectations, from strange rituals on the Pakistan border to the summer capital of the Raj and she discovered the best places are not always the most visited.
Modern computer technology is making its mark on the way we travel and John meets Rough Guides founder Mark Ellingham who is now producing guide 'apps' for mobile phones and Paul Smith a writer and blogger who journeyed to New Zealand relying entirely on offers made on the phone message service, Twitter. He asks them if the traditional guide book is dying.
Producer: Harry Parker.
Doreen Tayler
writes travel pieces for the Independent and as a qualified TEFL travelled to Vietnam and Ecuador teaching along the way. Eight years ago Doreen joined the Covent Garden branch of Globetrotters a club for independent travellers. Having successfully applied for a bursary from them she went to North West India following in the footsteps of Kim, from the eponymous novel by Rudyard Kipling.
Kim
By Rudyard Kipling
Publisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN-10: 0140620494
ISBN-13: 978-0140620498
Quest for Kim: In Search of Kipling's Great Game
By Peter Hopkirk
Publisher: John Murray
ISBN-10: 0719564522
ISBN-13: 978-0719564529
Mark Ellingham
is one of the founders of the Rough Guides and the author of the first Rough Guide to Greece. Mark has now started ‘Cool Places’, an ‘apps’ service for mobile phones; downloadable guides to various British towns or areas, with information on where to stay or eat and things to do.
Paul Smith
is a writer, blogger, and author of Twitchhiker - How One Man Travelled the World by Twitter. Paul left a degree course in astrophysics to work as a local radio presenter and eventually producer. He became a freelance writer and blogger when he had the idea of travelling to the other side of the world by Twitter. People would offer him lifts, tickets or somewhere to stay for the night as he journeyed to the furthest place from the UK – New Zealand.
Twitchhiker - How One Man Travelled the World by Twitter
Publisher: Summersdale
ISBN-10: 1849530742
ISBN-13: 978-1849530743
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