The Rough Guide to Everywhere

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 is known and loved for.

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 in West Sussex to meet up with Tristan Gooley, the "Natural Navigator", to discover how to create an internal compass using the logic of nature.

Check out www.naturalnavigator.com for more information on what Tristan does, and follow him on Twitter @NaturalNav.

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 with a load of microphones and musical instruments.

This is the story of the Tanzania Albinism Collective.

This episode was produced by Alannah Chance. Assistant Producer Katie Callin. Thanks to Keith Drew and George Dee from Rough Guides. For more information on the Tanzania Albinism Collective, visit tanzaniaalbinismcollective.bandcamp.com and standingvoice.org.

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 mysterious and isolated country in the world.

We're very excited to announce that we have been shortlisted for a Lovie Award! Vote for The Rough Guide to Everywhere on bit.ly/voteroughguides before Thursday 5th October.

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 September 2017.

In previous episodes of the podcast we have travelled all around the world, from Patagonia to the Ukraine, via North Dakota and the Scottish Highlands. But in this live episode, recorded in Kings Cross, it felt fitting to focus our conversation on London town.

Host Greg Dickinson sits down with three born n' bred Londoners: TimeOut London's news and events editor Sonya Barber, spoken-word poet Jeremiah "Sugar J" Brown, and the Pearly Queen of St Pancras herself.

In the discussion we hear their thoughts on community spirit, the impacts of gentrification, and what they consider to be "quintessentially London" (pie 'n mash, the Thames, and escalators...).

Subscribe to the podcast now to make sure you don't miss an episode. In future instalments we will travel to North Korea, discover a forgotten civilization in the Bolivian Amazon, and witness the silence of Antarctica.

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 red deer herd up close.

Subscribe to the Rough Guides podcast now to make sure you don't miss the beginning of Series Two, coming very soon. And we'd love to hear from you – get in touch on Twitter using #rgpodcast and leave us a review on iTunes.

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 was like returning to Accra, fifty years after the traumatic experience that threw her world upside down.

Esther Armah is a journalist, a radio host, a columnist, a playwright, a director of a media company and a media communications lecturer.

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.

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 how space travel changes your perspective of life on Earth.

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.