The Rough Guide to Everywhere

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What's The Rough Guide to Everywhere about?

A home for all the untold travel stories. In The Rough Guide to Everywhere we chat to people from around the world with inspiring travel tales to tell, and get the odd dispatch from Rough Guides writers on the road. The series is hosted by Rough Guides editor Aimee White (Twitter: @aimeefw). Use #roughguidespod to spread the word on Twitter. As featured on the BBC.

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The Rough Guide to Everywhere episodes:

08.19.2019
Best spots on Earth
We’re crunching through the snow, leaping from jagged cliffs and going behind the scenes in the Rough Guide to Everywhere series finale. First off, we’re in South Georgia, an eyebrow-shaped island in the South Atlantic Ocean, where travel writer and...
07.29.2019
Extreme travel with Ash Bhardwaj
What is it that draws us to extreme travel? In our penultimate episode of series four of The Rough Guide to Everywhere podcast, we speak with the travel writer, filmmaker and storyteller, Ash Bhardwaj. Ash recently travelled the entire length...
07.15.2019
The art of cow-calling
When you think of Swedish traditions, maybe what comes to mind is fika, lagom or Midsummer’s Day celebrations. But there’s another, quite unique tradition that you may not have heard of before: kulning, otherwise known as cow-calling. In this episode,...
07.01.2019
Responsible Photography
What exactly is ‘responsible photography’? In this episode, we’re exploring how we can be more mindful when photographing a particular place or a person. We speak with the award-winning travel writer and photographer Lola Akinmade Åkerström, an expert on the...
06.17.2019
Shanghai: adventure writing
Adventure writing has the ability to transport you to the place you’re reading about: taking in the unfamiliar script on a road sign, savouring sharp smells and fragrant tastes, basking in the hot heat and tingling in the freezing cold,...
06.03.2019
Liberation Route Europe
The 6th June 2019 marks the 75th anniversary of the D-Day Landings in Normandy, so in this podcast episode we take a look at how the Second World War is memorialised across Europe, and the importance of doing so. We speak...
05.20.2019
Witchcraft in Western Iceland
Icelandic folklore complements the rugged landscape of the remote West Fjords. With ethereal vistas, natural beauty and enchanting landscapes aplenty, there is something else that brings character to this region: myths, legends and witchcraft. This week, host Aimee White (@aimeefw)...
05.13.2019
Preview: The Insight Guides Podcast
Our sister-guidebook series, Insight Guides, have brought out their very own podcast. Exciting times! In this short episode we chat with Zara Sekhavati, the podcast host, to find out more about Insight Guides and what series one has to offer...
05.07.2019
Green Bank: travelling to a communications black hole
Welcome to series four of the Rough Guide to Everywhere! With a brand new host on board (Rough Guides editor Aimee White), we've got a fresh batch of stories, intriguing destinations and incredible guests lined up and ready to share...
09.10.2018
USA: the Black Masking Indians of New Orleans
In eighteenth-century Louisiana, escapee African slaves would make a break for the bayous. Here they might encounter Native Americans and occasionally find asylum with them: two peoples who had in common a struggle for freedom from oppression. That this episode in...
08.27.2018
DNA travel: a genetic journey
This week on The Rough Guide to Everywhere, host Rebecca Hallett (instagram.com/becca.hallett) takes a journey into her own genes, and asks whether it’s worth the trip. As at-home DNA tests get increasingly popular, some people are starting to travel based...
08.13.2018
Galápagos: the human story
Galápagos. What do you picture when you hear those four syllables? Chances are it’s wildlife, from giant tortoises and marine iguanas to blue-footed boobies. And rightly so, for the animals on these islands, sitting in extreme isolation 1000km (600 miles)...
07.30.2018
Malta: land of sea and stone
Having made it through colonisation by everyone from the Phoenicians to the Romans to the British, Malta may now be facing its biggest threat of all: tourists. This week, host Rebecca Hallett (instagram.com/becca.hallett) looks at the beautiful island nation’s history...
07.17.2018
England’s Northeast: tall tales and sea shanties
From the region's coal mines to keel boats plying the mighty River Tyne and ships on the hunt for precious whale oil, shanties eased and animated working life in England's Northeast for centuries. Host Neil McQuillian heads up to Newcastle...
07.02.2018
Solo female travel: independent or unsafe?
Bring a fake wedding ring, cover up, don’t stay out late – just go with friends and don’t risk it! Every woman knows to expect these responses when she starts planning a trip by herself. But is this advice helpful,...
06.18.2018
South Africa: meet the Black Mambas
In Balule Nature Reserve, a woman’s place is in the bush, putting off poachers and protecting rhinos – even when heavily pregnant. Rough Guides travel editor Georgia Stephens (twitter.com/Stephens_GA) spoke to Charlie, Nkateko and Cute of the Black Mambas (www.blackmambas.org)...
06.04.2018
Haiti: the art of vodou
Artworks made from human skulls, all-night street parades and frenzied spirit possession, Rough Guides author Thomas Rees (twitter.com/ThomasNRees) leads us down the alleyways of Port Au Prince in Haiti, looking at how vodou influences everything from the art world to...
05.31.2018
Trailer: The Rough Guide to Everywhere Season 3
Trailer for series 3 of travel podcast The Rough Guide to Everywhere. We're back with wonderful new stories, new guests, new locations and new hosts in Rebecca Hallett and Neil McQuillian, editors at Rough Guides (www.roughguides.com). Episode 18 – all about...
12.20.2017
In search of the northern lights
In this episode Greg travels to Finnish Lapland to embark on a hunt for the northern lights. This is Greg's last episode of the Rough Guide to Everywhere, but keep an eye on Rough Guides' social channels and roughguides.com to...
11.29.2017
From Kenya to Bolivia: on the road with Rough Guides
At any one time, somewhere, there is a Rough Guides author on the road, crossing a country on a rickety bus, scribbling notes on the back of a receipt, or propping up a bar in a one-horse town. All in...
11.13.2017
The Extraordinary Life of Aboriginal Storyteller Francis Firebrace
Cowboy, pirate, storyteller, cultural educator, soft-porn photographer. 81-year-old Francis Firebrace has led an extraordinary life. In this episode, Greg chats with Francis in his Surrey home. Francis shares his incredible life story, and tells some of the Aboriginal stories that he...
10.30.2017
The Natural Navigator
In a world where we rely so heavily on GPS to get from A to B, it is easy to tune out from the natural navigational cues that surround us. In this episode, Rough Guides editor Greg Dickinson travels to Barnham...
10.15.2017
Tanzania Albinism Collective
On the Tanzanian island of Ukerewe, and across sub-Saharan Africa, people with albinism are persecuted in devastating and unimaginable ways. In the summer of 2016, Grammy Award-winning producer Ian Brennan travelled to the island with the charity Standing Voice, armed...
10.02.2017
North Korea
We've all heard so much about North Korea. But how many of us have actually travelled to the secretive state? In this week's episode Greg chats with legendary travel writer and publisher Hilary Bradt about her recent visit to the most...
09.17.2017
Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner (LIVE)
The Rough Guide to Everywhere podcast is back! Today we are delighted to launch Series Two of the Rough Guide to Everywhere, with this special recording taken in front of a live audience at the London Podcast Festival on Thursday 14th...
06.04.2017
Off-Road in the Scottish Highlands
In March 2017, podcast host Greg Dickinson travelled to the Scottish Highlands on Rough Guides duties. While on the road, Greg spent an afternoon with eccentric deerstalker Colin Murdoch, who leads extraordinary adventures across the Reraig Forest Estate to see his...
05.21.2017
The Ghanaian Test
For Esther Armah, travelling and living between different places has defined her identity. She has lived in Accra, London and New York, and in this episode Rough Guides' editor Greg Dickinson chats to her about identity, childhood, and what it...
05.07.2017
Rocinha Surf School
In this week's episode we chat with Mikey Krzyzanowski, founder of Goma Collective, about his documentary on a Brazilian surf school that is empowering a generation.
04.23.2017
A View From Space
This week we hear from a man who has seen entire continents in one glance: NASA astronaut, Don Thomas. Don has orbited Earth nearly 700 times on four space flights, and talks vividly about the view from outer space, and...
04.09.2017
Microadventures
This week we hear from National Geographic's Adventurer of the Year Alastair Humphreys, the man behind Microadventures. He tells us how he came up with the concept, and challenges host Greg Dickinson to go off on a Microadventure of his own.
03.26.2017
Tim Key's gap year in Ukraine
In this week's episode, poet comedian Tim Key tells us about his gap year in Kiev, Ukraine. He also shares stories from southeast Asia and India, where he penned a wonderful poem that he performs for us at the end...
03.12.2017
Wild Things
In this week's episode, we travel to Latin America to hear from two of the world's most ambitious and outspoken eco-pioneers. Kris Tompkins, the ex-CEO of Patagonia clothing, explains why she moved to South America in the early 1990s to embark...
02.26.2017
The Travel Confessions of Ruby Wax
In this third episode of The Rough Guide to Everywhere we catch up with the one and only Ruby Wax. Ruby shares previously untold travel stories, from the time she was locked up in a jail cell in Berkeley to taking...
02.12.2017
That's Not Hygge
In this second episode of The Rough Guide to Everywhere, we hunker down and talk about "hygge" with Meik Wiking, CEO of the Happiness Research Institute. Meik speaks about his travels around the world "collecting smiles" – from South Korea...
01.29.2017
Just Like Riding a Bicycle
In this first episode of The Rough Guide to Everywhere, we talk to two people who have cycled huge lengths of the planet, fifty years apart. Legendary travel writer Dervla Murphy shares stories from her 1963 solo cycle from Ireland...

What's The Rough Guide to Everywhere about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

The Rough Guide to Everywhere episodes:

Best spots on Earth

Extreme travel with Ash Bhardwaj

The art of cow-calling

Responsible Photography

Shanghai: adventure writing

Liberation Route Europe

Witchcraft in Western Iceland

Preview: The Insight Guides Podcast

Green Bank: travelling to a communications black hole

USA: the Black Masking Indians of New Orleans

DNA travel: a genetic journey

Galápagos: the human story

Malta: land of sea and stone

England’s Northeast: tall tales and sea shanties

Solo female travel: independent or unsafe?

South Africa: meet the Black Mambas

Haiti: the art of vodou

Trailer: The Rough Guide to Everywhere Season 3

In search of the northern lights

From Kenya to Bolivia: on the road with Rough Guides

The Extraordinary Life of Aboriginal Storyteller Francis Firebrace

The Natural Navigator

Tanzania Albinism Collective

North Korea

Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner (LIVE)

Off-Road in the Scottish Highlands

The Ghanaian Test

Rocinha Surf School

A View From Space

Microadventures

Tim Key's gap year in Ukraine

Wild Things

The Travel Confessions of Ruby Wax

That's Not Hygge

Just Like Riding a Bicycle