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Last broadcast on Sat, 11 Dec 2010, 10:00 on BBC Radio 4.
Synopsis
Anita Anand explores pilgrim routes from Canterbury to Kerala and meets Tony Giles, the blind and severely deaf traveller, who has undertaken two solo trips around the world.
Producer Chris Wilson.
The Reverend Dr Ian Bradley
is Reader in Church History & Practical Theology at St Andrews University. Dr Bradley contends that although pilgrimages should have some faith resonance they are often a very personal journey undertaken as a milestone in people’s lives. Ian currently involved in a project to create a new pilgrim route from Iona to St Andrews.
Pilgrimage: A Spiritual and Cultural Journey
Publisher: Lion Publishing plc
ISBN-10: 0745952704
ISBN-13: 978-0745952703
Homa Khaleeli
is a journalist. Homa has done a few family pilgrimages, travelling to Mashhad and Qom in Iran. She has also been to Damascus to the Umayyad mosque, and on shorter visits to see Sufi shrines in Lahore Pakistan. Homa enjoys not only the reflective nature of pilgrimages but also their festivity.
Christopher Somerville
is a travel writer. Christopher has spent 25 years writing and walking. He has taken part in several different pilgrimages including one with homeless people from London to Canterbury and others further afield in Crete and Kerala in Southern India.
The Golden Step: A Walk Through the Heart of Crete
Publisher: The Armchair Traveller at the bookHaus
ISBN-10: 1905791992
ISBN-13: 978-1905791996
Never Eat Shredded Wheat: The Geography We've Lost and How to Find it Again
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN-10: 144470463X
ISBN-13: 978-1444704631
Tony Giles
lost all sight except for his ability to recognise bright sunlight at the age of eighteen. At an early age Tony developed nerve sensory hearing loss is now severely deaf, yet he travels the world solo, staying in backpacker hotels. His most recent journeys include trips to the USA, Sri Lanka and Iceland. Seeing The World My Way is Tony’s first book.
Seeing the World My Way
Publisher: SilverWood Books
ISBN-10: 1906236380
ISBN-13: 978-1906236380
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