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Personal Landscapes

Ryan Murdock

Ryan Murdock talks with the world’s most original writers, publishers and travelers to get the story behind great books about place. www.personallandscapespodcast.com

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83 episodes

  1. Christopher Harding on the history of Japan 1:42:27
  2. Ask Me Anything (AMA) #2 1:56:30
  3. Paul Theroux on the road in Canada 2:01:09
  4. Jan Morris with biographer Sara Wheeler 1:26:02
  5. George Forster with biographer Andrea Wulf 1:26:15
  6. Rory Maclean on the cross-cultural geography of heaven 1:17:26
  7. Colin Thubron on Russia and Asia's borderlands 1:15:50
  8. Tom Feiling on Japan’s warning for the future 1:10:45
  9. Katja Hoyer on life at the edge of catastrophe 1:21:49
  10. Nicholas Crane on the hidden history of Britain's paths 1:27:57
  11. Robert Kaplan on a world in permanent crisis 43:32
  12. Isabella Tree on Nepal’s living goddess 1:09:59
  13. Easter Island with archaeologist Mike Pitts 1:27:06
  14. Moonlighting: reliving the 80’s with Scott Ryan 1:13:06
  15. Constantine Cavafy with biographer Gregory Jusdanis 1:13:13
  16. Peter Matthiessen with biographer Lance Richardson 1:06:03
  17. Alex Hutchinson on what drives us to explore 1:23:08
  18. Foster Hirsch on film noir and 1950s Hollywood 1:18:52
  19. Peter Carpenter: Walking in the Footsteps of David Bowie 1:24:25
  20. Justin Marozzi: Slavery in the Islamic World 1:03:38
  21. Europe By Rail with Nicky Gardner 1:11:20
  22. Louis D. Hall on riding to the end of the land 1:02:34
  23. Andrew McCarthy on walking the Camino and the Brat Pack 1:08:16
  24. Germany’s Broken Republic 1:41:18
  25. Kyle Chayka on how the internet flattened culture 53:15
  26. Sophy Roberts on A Training School for Elephants 55:47
  27. Joseph Koudelka with biographer Melissa Harris 1:01:39
  28. Clair Wills on Ireland’s missing persons 53:26
  29. Deborah Lawrenson on her mother the spy 46:44
  30. Michael Asher on crossing the Sahara by camel 1:17:57
  31. Charles Nicholl on Rimbaud’s lost Africa years 1:06:15
  32. Paul Theroux on life’s vanishing points 1:35:16
  33. Julian Evans on Odesa and Ukraine 46:58
  34. Jeffrey Meyers on charting parallel lives 1:00:50
  35. Cam Honan on the hiking life 1:24:31
  36. Richard Grant: A race to the bottom of crazy 1:06:32
  37. Lesley Downer on poetry in Japan’s deep north 1:19:17
  38. Thomas Swick: Life in Cold War Poland 1:12:02
  39. Eric Cline: Why civilization ended in 1177 B.C. 1:26:15
  40. Paul Theroux on Orwell and Burma Sahib 1:31:48
  41. Jonathan Raban: one of our greatest writers on place 55:23
  42. James Salter: with biographer Jeffrey Meyers 1:08:19
  43. Andrew Finkel: Sherlock Holmes and the Ottoman Empire 55:19
  44. The Wakhan Corridor with Bill Colegrave 49:20
  45. Justin Marozzi: Tamerlane and Samarkand 1:13:26
  46. Alex Kerr: Finding hidden Japan 1:17:02
  47. Barnaby Rogerson: The making of the Middle East 1:17:29
  48. Sarah Anderson: Founding The Travel Bookshop 1:06:54
  49. Louisa Waugh: Life on the edge of Mongolia 1:09:20
  50. Bruce Chatwin: with editor and friend Susannah Clapp 56:30