Picture the scene... Lisa and Simon Hunter (Madrid based journalist) are in the centre of Madrid at the fabulous Ocean... more

Barbara Buczek spent ten years in the management team at the Port of Dover but over two years ago moved... more

Ash Bhardwaj travel-writer, film-maker & author of the new book Why We Travel is today’s wonderful guest – discussing… the... more

Faisal Sheraiff, influencer and entrepreneur, lives in Saudi Arabia with his fashion designer wife and two children. He was born... more

We’re back for our new season and starting with an extra special episode recorded in the beautiful Maldivian resort of... more

We are happy to announce the imminent arrival of our new season of episodes and as usual we have a... more

Hello and welcome to The Big Travel Podcast Christmas Special 2023 special…featuring the Casual Birder Podcast’s Suzy Buttress on celebrating... more

Nitin Sawhney’s Kent childhood included regular attacks by racists, but he threw himself into music, joining school friend James Taylor’s... more

Motoring journalist Ben Oliver was born amid the troubles in Belfast with the family moving to ‘slightly dull Reading’ when... more

Actor Warwick Davis' first trip abroad was to California at the age of 11 to star in Star Wars, a... more

Rachel Riley, Maths expert, Gadget Show & Countdown host, MBE for services to Holocaust education grew up in Essex by... more

Robert Munns, CEO of sailing charity Oceans of Hope UK, left the graft and glamour of West End theatre for... more

Freya Ridings’ beautiful, heartfelt music, gives you a wonderful sense of her warm and open personality and you’re going to... more

It was a passion for birding and indeed podcasting that lead Suzy Buttress to establish the wonderful Casual Birder podcast,... more

With… Franz Ferdinand’s Alex Kapranos in New Zealand, podcaster & author Iszi Lawrence in Australia, charity founder Kevin Chaplin in... more

Kevin Chaplin left behind his banking career to establish South Africa’s Ubuntu Foundation and rescue the Amy Foundation, named after... more

Author, historian, comedian, podcaster and co-presenter of the travel that doesn’t actually go anywhere – ‘Your Place Or Mine’ with... more

Tony Michaelides finds it uncomfortable to call himself legendary, as one would, but he is indeed legendary in the music business…promoting... more

Instagram Expert, Creative Coach, Photographer and Author Sara Tasker spent lockdown obsessing about the perfect French house and if you... more

Cyber Crime Expert, climber and caver Lisa Forte has been voted one of the 100 top women in tech, starting... more

Singer-songwriter Nina Nesbitt grew up half Swedish and half Scottish in a little Scottish village, kicking off her career age... more

‘Something special happens in Ibiza…’ say our guests on this episode and indeed it feels like this is true, especially... more

Ibizan hotelier Marc Rahola went from hotel telephone exchange boy to founder of a chain of boutique hotels and properties... more

After a series of tragic losses Mariellen Ward took a giant leap of faith and headed to India. Her six month... more

Michael Palin describes Trevor Dolby’s book, One Place de L'Eglise, as "a timeless story of what it is that makes France irresistible”. Former publisher,... more

Growing up in Northern Ireland, with his preacher father playing guitar and his granny always singing, for Foy Vance music... more

During the pandemic Jamie Klingler, underwent an incredible transformation from heavy-drinking party girl to sober, and losing 7 stone along... more

Jennifer Nand was just a young teen when the Beatles were at the start of their meteoric rise. Piling into... more

You might have seen recently a story that went viral, the woman who for three months let a baby bird... more

Marc Araham, OBE, aka Marc the Vet, was inspired by his Holocaust survivor grandmother to change UK law and dramatically... more

Stand-up comedian, star of comedy TV shows and host of the Namaste Mother******s Podcast, Cally Beaton, was a high flying... more

'Nanny Sharz’ as she’s known is an international Nanny for the rich and famous, work which has taken her all... more

On top of a building in Chernobyl, overlooking the destruction and devastation, Greg made a life-changing decision. From that moment... more

Lisa is utterly delighted to have Franz Ferdinand's Alex Kapranos on the podcast to talk about growing up half Greek,... more

A childhood divided between her father’s home in Barbados and the cold grey of a wintery London gave Hollywood actor... more

Peace Activist and Nuclear Disarmament Expert, Dr. Rebecca Johnson, grew up in a Hutterite community in the rural US. After... more

Growing up on a Peckham council estate with his musician mother and a 'Lizzie-Anne the transvestite' childcarer led to Pete... more

A year spent camping out in the bush in Cameroon led Will Bolsover from Natural World Safaris make travel his... more

Authors Anne Sebba on the Royal abdication, Sathnam Sanghera's dismal Christmas restaurant, Lisa Jewell's Boney M in Barbados, adventurer Jamie... more

Born in Tehran, the descendent of a nomadic tribe, Contemporary Artist Firouz FarmanFarmaian's family scattered after the Islamic Revolution. He grew up... more

A journey through the maze of Marbella's 16th Century cobbled lanes surrounding the old 'Orange Square', encountering flamenco singers and... more

Comedian, political satirist and Spitting Image star Matt Forde talks accosting Billy Connolly in New York, 'dying' on stage in... more

Just as the world was closing Sam McManus from YellowWood Adventures took a daunting gamble and hopped on a plane to Costa Rica. We talk... more

Good news at least for those people who have had two UK administered vaccines. From 19th July we can now... more

A Big Travel Podcast special on the latest UK Travel Update; the new rules, the changes in the traffic light... more

Olly Mann, from Answer Me This podcast fame, his new The Retrospectors and much more, loves nothing more than researching... more

Into The Wild Festival promoter Huw Wyn grew up in his mother’s hotel in Wales then moved to Spain. We talk growing up feral... more

The author of one of Lisa’s favourite books, Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved and Died in the... more

Internationally best-selling author Lisa Jewell is a Londoner through and through, yet her Anglo-Indian mother a rather traumatic upbringing in... more

Winning a Radio 1 competition age 15 to fly to LA first piqued Sathnam Sanghera’s taste for travel and journalism.... more