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06ÌýDECEMBERÌý2008
The Saga Rose’s penultimate voyage next year will visit countries like Australia, Malaysia and India as well as islands in the Caribbean and Pacific, in the Indian Ocean and in the Mediterranean; the cruise aims to take in many of the Commonwealth countries that were formerly run by or under the protection of the British.
Sandi Toksvig is joined by Emma Soames, the editor of Saga magazine to discuss the appeal of the Commonwealth of Nations to the older traveller in the 21st Century.
Andrea McNicoll spent twelve years living in Thailand and returns regularly to visit.Ìý The recent blockade of Thailand’s airports brought the tourist industry into sharp focus and Andrea shares her insight into the importance of tourism to the country and its effect on more rural areas.
Freelance journalist and broadcaster, Rob Crossan recounts his adventures in Djibouti, a tiny state on the Horn of Africa, where he swam with whale sharks and heard the legend of a monster of the deep, on the shores of the Red Sea.
Presented by Sandi Toksvig
Photo: Commonwealth Institute, Kensington High Street, London 2003 - Photographer:Ìý Alex Segre ©
This week’s guests:Ìý
Emma Soames is a journalist. She is the granddaughter of Sir Winston Churchill. She is currently the editor-at-large ofÌý magazine.Ìý
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Andea McNicoll currently works in social care. She’s recently published her first novel Moonshine in the Morning set in Thailand which presents ‘an unforgetÂtable cast of strong-minded women and their wayward husbands clinging to village life in Thailand before the relentless advance of modernity’.
Andrea travelled to Hong Kong in her early twenties and ended up in Thailand where she fell in love and eventually moved there permanently in 1990.Ìý Andrea married a local from a village in the highlands of the North West near the Burmese border where she and her husband opened a restaurant. Later Andrea moved to the city of Chiang Mai and worked as a translator and interpreter for NGOs.Ìý She moved back to the UK in 2001. Moonshine in the Morning, which was recently shortlisted for the Saltire Society Scottish First Book of the Year award, is Andrea’s debut novel.
Moonshine in the Morning
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
ISBN-10: 184688067X
ISBN-13: 978-1846880674
Rob Crossan is a freelance journalist and broadcaster. He writes for Lonely Planet, Rough Guides, Time Out, CNNTraveller, The Observer, The Sun and co-presents the ´óÏó´«Ã½ disability podcast .
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