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 Listen to Excess Baggage for 10am听25th June 2005
WEATHER
On this weeks programme Sandi takes a look at every travellers obsession - The Weather.
10am听25th June 2005
Presented by Sandi Toksvig
Garth Cartwright
Garth was born in New Zealand. He left school at 16, tried his hand at professional skateboarding, singing in punk bands, promoting concerts and even had a brief sojourn as a boxer, before turning to writing full time. IN 1995 he won the Guardian music writing award. He has written for the Guardian, Telegraph, Independent on Sunday, The Times, Time out听
Latest book: Princes Amongst Men: Journeys with Gypsy Music, published by Serpent's Tail, ISBN听听1852428775
Maria Harding
Maria is a journalist who specialises in the cruise business, but somewhat bizarrely she has also written a guide to the world's weather.
Latest book: Weather to Travel: The Traveller's Guide to the World's Weather, published by Tomorrow's Guides, ISBN 1858900298
Nick Middleton
Travel writer and geographer Nick Middleton has travelled to more than 70 countries and has written several travel books including The Last Disco in Outer Mongolia , Kalashnikovs and Zombie Cucumbers , Travels in Mozambique , Travels as a Brussels Scout , Ice Tea and Elvis: A Saunter through the Southern States and his 2001 best-seller, Going to Extremes . In 2002 he won the Royal Geographical Society's Ness Award in recognition of his widening the public enthusiasm for geography through his travel writing. Nick has also worked for the United Nations in Austria, Kenya and Mongolia, taught earth sciences in Oman and organised whale watching in Ecuador. When he is not travelling or writing he teaches geography at the University of Oxford where he is a Fellow of St. Anne's College.
Latest book: Surviving Extremes, published by Macmillan,听ISBN听 033043182X
Tom Lynch
Tom is a keen amateur storm chaser. He has been interested in chasing since 1979 when he lived in Arkansas, but he has only actually been chasing for the past six years. First took his wife for their wedding anniversary six years ago. They've been back again together but he now tends to go with a couple of like-minded blokes from Norfolk.
When he is not chasing storms, Tom leads a perfectly ordinary existence as an operations manager in housing, and as a town councillor. He is a confident talker and not phased by the suggestion to appear on programme. Cumbrian accent with deprecating humour
Next week
What is travel like for those who lead us?听 Sandi will be exploring the world of the travel guide
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