The Big Travel Podcast

As a best-selling celebrity biographer for Adele, Amy Winehouse, Justin Bieber, Simon Cowell, Michael Jackson, Paris Hilton, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie and more, Chas Newkey-Burden has some wonderful travel tales. He’s interviewed David Beckham in Madrid, loves the nightlife and indeed daylife of Israel and once spent an entire flight to Australia rehearsing how to evacuate a plane. Plus can you...

Nine children to organise takes some, well, organisation, but whom better to negotiate such a feat than City superstar Dame Helena Morrissey. One of only a few women to have been CEO of an investment bank, she’s a champion of gender equality and author of ‘A Good Time To Be A Girl’ a book about how women and men can succeed in work and indeed life by changing the culture they’re leaning in to. Awa...

Having quit his job years ago to travel full-time Adam, through his blog and website Travels of Adam, is living this dream. Adam talks about 50 or more countries he’s visited – from camping with Bedouins in the desert in Jordan to finding the hippest hangouts in every European City and his plans to base himself back in his beloved America. We talk about holidays, Trump, gay rights, festivals and a...

London born Muslim Emdad Rahman dedicates all of his spare time to charity – work that sees him building wells in Ghana, helping at orphanages in Morocco and delivering aid to refugees in Calais. His story about his first trip to Mecca will make you shiver.. The son of Bangladeshi immigrants, he grew up in Tower Hamlets, a vibrant London borough of huge contrasts. He’s a published football poet, y...

One of Britain’s best-loved broadcasters, Eamonn Holmes grew up in what was essentially a war zone in Belfast, Northern Ireland, has travelled extensively with seminal programmes such as the BBC Holiday Programme and also How the Other Half Live, a TV show on which he and his broadcaster wife Ruth Langsford road-test the lifestyles of the ridiculously famous, he’s a huge fan of Manchester United a...

Hannah Martin – make-up artist to the stars, YouTube and Instagram star – talks travelling with Bobbi Brown, negotiating cultural differences in China where her simple solution was to just eat everything and also opens up about her struggles to become a mum including putting bravely having to inject IVF meds in the middle of New York Fashion Week. Hannah and The Big Travel Podcast host, Lisa, made...

Major Ken Hames MBE, former SAS, adventurer and explorer, tells incredible stories of being stuck in mine fields at war in the Falklands, parachuting into hostile terrains all over the world, guiding people in wheelchairs through the Nicaraguan wilderness for the BBC and of his conservation work in Africa which recently saw him attacked by a rhino in Namibia. With one eye always on the Official Se...

As the comedian in charge of warming up audiences for the X Factor, Britain’s Got Talent, America’s Got Talent and much more Ian Royce has worked on cruise ships, been weed on in Barbados and once performed on the roof of a tank in Bosnia. Despite this outwardly charmed life he’s also been open about depression. His brilliantly funny accounts of his travels will make you laugh, smile and might eve...

Prepare to be inspired by Mollie Hughes who, having climbed Everest twice by the age of 26 has seen the world in ways others can only imagine. We find out what it’s like to scale Everest, what is the ‘death zone’, finding bodies on the path, the perils of eating freeze-dried curry at 8,000 feet, women’s climbing skills, Britney Spears, Sherpas, Nepal, Africa, Antartica, the Outer Hebrides, castles...

A pioneer of drum ‘n’ bass and jungle Fabio is one of the UK’s best known DJ’s and been called one of the best DJs in the world. From humble beginnings in pirate radio and raves in Brixton to the dizzy heights of BBC Radio One, he’s travelled all over the world, playing at raves in airports, culture-shock gigs in Japan and once got caught in the middle of a Nazi riot in Germany. A real insight int...

Lucy Siegle’s passion for the planet is infectious. Her work has taken her to everywhere from of the poorest parts of the world, in the fabric factories of Bangladesh, to the most glamorous of red carpets at the Oscars. She’s on our screens almost daily on The One Show on primetime BBC1 as well as a prolific writer and broadcaster. Fresh off the plane from the UN Environmental Assembly in Nairobi...

Paul Ross; Chasing the Mafia in Sicily, getting mugged in Rio and the Great British Seaside. Witty, entertaining, self-deprecating yet obviously enormously clever, it’s hard to describe the powerhouse of conversation that is Paul Ross. Incredibly well-travelled, in this episode we pack in everything from traditional Seaside holidays, to frightening bats in the Amazon to Sicilian Mafia-busting mayo...