Ticket to Ride

“Football’s original super-agent” Jon Smith has led a packed and varied life, not only acting as an agent for some of the greatest names in the game including Diego Maradona and Ruud Gullit, but also playing a part in making the Premier League and the England Football team modern businesses. Here he talks about his travels with the beautiful game’, but also how personal struggle and setbacksshaped his success.

 

Created and Presented by Nick Evans

Music and Audio Production by Benjamin Holder

Produced by Scratch Post Productions

Actress, writer and comedy performer Jackie Clune joins Nick for this week’s Odyssey, sharing with us the most memorable trips of her life. From an inauspicious start on a childhood school trip, to a unique connection with a young mother of twins in a South African township, Jackie shares with us some of the people and places her work has brought into her life.

 

Created and Presented by Nick Evans

Music and Audio Production by Benjamin Holder

Produced by Scratch Post Productions

British-born microbiologist Dr. Siouxsie Wiles has just been awarded the title ‘New Zealander of The Year’; recognition of the key role she has played in tackling the Covid crisis in that country. Alongside her role as head of the Bioluminescent Superbugs Lab in Auckland - she has earned the nickname ‘The Covid Lady’ for her clear and important daily communications of how the virus should be tackled. In this episode, she shares her journey from Hull to Auckland and some magical places along the way.

 

Created and Presented by Nick Evans

Music and Audio Production by Benjamin Holder

Produced by Scratch Post Productions

Chris Jackson is the Royal Photographer with Getty Images, and so travel for him often means International Royal Tours in the company of Princes William, Harry and meeting Presidents and Kings. But some of Chris’ most memorable trips have been meeting ordinary people, with his artistry as a photographer always leading the way. Join Chris and Nick as they revisit journeys to some of the highest mountains, remote kingdoms and underprivileged communities in the world. 

 

Created and Presented by Nick Evans

Music and Audio Production by Benjamin HolderProduced by Scratch Post Productions

In this episode, Nick offers the ‘Ticket To Ride’ tickets to BBC Newsnight presenter Kirsty Wark. A writer, journalist and presenter, Kirsty takes us from journeys to her favourite corner of her native Scotland, through to a night out in the bars and restaurants of ancient Spain, and tells us what it's like to see New York through the eyes of her son and his friends...

 

Created and Presented by Nick Evans

Music and Audio Production by Benjamin HolderProduced by Scratch Post Productions

Robyn Scott joins Nick for this week's episode, to reveal stories of an African childhood, the nature that shaped her, and her father’s role in managing Africa’s HIV crisis in the 1990’s. Robyn is the author of ‘Twenty Chickens For a Saddle’, an account of her childhood in Botswana as well as a founder of several entrepreneurial start-ups. From spacious African plains to claustrophobic prison cells, Robyn shares a set of journeys not to be missed.

 

Created and Presented by Nick Evans

Music and Audio Production by Benjamin HolderProduced by Scratch Post Productions

Layton Williams is one of theatres young brightest stars, creating a huge and loyal fanbase for his lead roles in ‘Everybody’s Talking About Jamie’, ‘Rent’ and TV roles in ‘Beautiful People’ and ‘Bad Education’. In a journey that takes us from Bury to Brazil, Layton shares his travel techniques and the time he caused an incident at passport control!

 

Created and Presented by Nick Evans

Music and Audio Production by Benjamin HolderProduced by Scratch Post Productions

This week, Nick chats to TV presenter and host of Channel 4’s ‘A Place in the Sun’ Scarlette Douglasabout the journeys that have shaped her life. What does it feel like to travel to some of the world’smost magical places as part of your job? Does she really get to know the places she brings into outliving rooms? And which tropical island has stolen her heart…

 

Created and Presented by Nick Evans

Music and Audio Production by Benjamin HolderProduced by Scratch Post Productions

Zeb Soanes is a newsreader, actor and writer, known to millions as one of the most recognisable voices of BBC Radio 4 who has guided us around the Shipping Forecast for over a decade. From New Year in Norfolk to a near-disaster at Buxton Opera House via a trip to the West Coast of America, Zeb is our travel companion for this week’s episode.

 

Created and Presented by Nick Evans

Music and Audio Production by Benjamin HolderProduced by Scratch Post Productions

This week, we’re joined by one of Scotland’s most creative musicians, Eddi Reader; a writer and singer whose range spans traditional Scottish poetry to a memorable number one hit with Fairground Attraction. From family sing songs in the back of the car to getting lost in the backstreets of Tokyo, Eddi shares journeys that feature as some of her most memorable adventures.

 

Created and Presented by Nick Evans

Music and Audio Production by Benjamin HolderProduced by Scratch Post Productions