Travel That Made Me

She visited every country on earth, becoming the first Black woman to do so. But the real reason she did it only became clear years later. Jessica Nabongo joins Rajan Datar on Travel That Made Me to trace a journey that started not with a passport but with a murder: her father, killed two days after her 19th birthday. From quitting a six-figure pharmaceutical job over a three-figure bonus, to rero...

He grew up without citizenship, without a passport, and with a burning rage after his brother died after being tortured in a military cell. Then, at eighteen, Aziz Abu-Sarah did something almost nobody in his position would do: he walked twenty minutes to the other side of Jerusalem and started learning Hebrew. His world opened up. That one decision, to embrace what he had been taught to fear, run...

Some people are just made differently. Paul Simonon certainly is. From smashing his bass on stage, which would become the most famous album cover in punk to cooking spaghetti for inmates in a Greenland jail - Paul Simonon has lived many lives. For fifty years he has roamed the planet, from a Brixton boyhood to “cowboy land” in 1960s Italy, touring the world with Joe Strummer to busking unrecognise...

What's it like to be a high-profile journalist, travelling around the world, seeing international events and wars from a first-hand perspective? This conversation is with Lyse Doucet, the BBC's Chief International Correspondent. Lyse has been a journalist for over 40 years, and has reported from almost everywhere - from Afghanistan to Côte d'Ivoire. This is a public episode. If you would like to d...

How has travel shaped your life? Travel That Made Me is a weekly podcast about how travel made some of the world’s most fascinating and incredible people who they are. From musicians to Nobel Prize winners, explorers to war correspondents, Travel That Made Me delves into all of life’s stories, all through the lens of travel. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other su...