The 3 Best Intrepid Times Podcast Episodes
1) Why We Travel: Interview With Ash Bhardwaj
On this episode of The Travel Writing Podcast, Nathan interviews travel writer, filmmaker, and storyteller Ash Bhardwaj. The conversation includes a discussion about the role hedonism plays in our mot...Show More
2) Elixir: Interview with Kapka Kassabova
In this episode, Kapka Kassabova joins us for a conversation about her most recently published book, Elixir, the third in what will soon be a quartet set in the southern Balkans. She speaks about how ...Show More
3) From Sushi to Satanism; the Unique Travel Writing Career of La Carmina
It's no coincidence that we are releasing this special episode of the Travel Writing Podcast on Friday the 13th. La Carmina is a multi-talented author, influencer, blogger, food writer, television per...Show More
4) 65 Years of Travel Writing History with Daniel James Clarke from the British Guild of Travel Writers (BGTW)
Sixty-five years ago, overseas travel was a rare thing even for relatively well-off people in Britain. Currency controls meant it was illegal to take more than £50 abroad. Strict pricing controls on E...Show More
5) "Tourists Go Home!" Daniel Maurer on Overtourism, Traveler's Guilt, and the Future of Travel
The three words are scrawled everywhere; on walls, banners, and even on the side of Barcelona's rubbish bins. It's easy to dismiss them as the word of isolated cranks. But it isn't. The message increa...Show More
6) Stranded in Remote Peru, Brad Fox Ate Psychedelic Plants and Wrote About the Depths of the Ocean
When the entire world shut down in early 2020, Brad Fox was not at home in New York. He was instead in the high jungles of Peru, embedded with a family of Quechua-speaking traditional healers, known a...Show More
7) Laika in Russia, Driving in Alaska, Myths in Iceland, and the Writer's Life with Kurt Caswell
One day, the writer and professor Kurt Caswell received a cryptic mission from an editor. Laika, the Russian dog who would become the first living creature sent into orbit, had a window in her spacecr...Show More
8) James Briggs Followed David Bowie from Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads - And Lived to Publish the Tale
"See the mice in their million hordes," Bowie sings, "From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads." For most, these lines, from Bowie's culture-bending 1971 track "Life on Mars?" are intriguing, amusing, or pe...Show More
9) How Travel Writing Awards Catupulted Dom Tulett into Publication
Eighteen months after his daughter was born, Dom and his wife still hadn't had a full night's sleep. An ambitious family trip to Colombia loomed, but they knew their little one just wasn't ready for t...Show More
10) Behind the Scenes of "Small Earthquakes" - Telling The British South America Story with Shafik Meghji
Over the course of 15 years, Shafik Meghji traveled repeatedly to South America, falling in love with the continent and in particular with Buenos Aires, which he came to feel was his second home. Trav...Show More