Martha Gellhorn wanted to be known as a novelist. Instead, she’s remembered as one of the 20th century’s greatest war correspondents. She wrote about what war does to ordinary people, and the despair of those who have lost everything. Biographer Caroline Moorehead joins me to talk about this remarkable woman.
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Andrew Finkel: Sherlock Holmes and the Ottoman Empire
The Wakhan Corridor with Bill Colegrave
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Alex Kerr: Finding hidden Japan
Barnaby Rogerson: The making of the Middle East
Sarah Anderson: Founding The Travel Bookshop
Louisa Waugh: Life on the edge of Mongolia
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Laura Trethewey: Mapping our unknown oceans
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Jeremy Bassetti: Pilgrims on Bolivia’s Hill of Skulls
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Simon Winchester: Outposts at the edge of the world
Tom Parfitt: Walking the High Caucasus
Richard Grant: Travels With American Nomads
Anthony Sattin: How nomads shaped settled civilization
The Sahara with Eamonn Gearon
Eastern Europe with Jacob Mikanowski
Berlin with Barney White-Spunner
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