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Ade Adepitan MBE British television presenter and wheelchair basketball player Ade talks about his BBC Two series Africa with Ade Adepitan, revealing his reasons for making it and his shock at learning about the slave trade’s impact on Nigeria, the country of his birth.
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Felicity Aston MBE In 2012, polar explorer Felicity Aston became the fi rst woman to ski solo across Antarctica, but it was her 2018 all-women expedition to the North Pole that most changed her outlook on humanity, ocean warming and the future of our planet.
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Pico Iyer Celebrated for his vivid tales about Japan, the country he’s called home for over 30 years, British-born travel writer Pico delves into his early career as an international aff airs writer and reveals how a trip to Tibet changed his life forever.
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William Dalrymple The multi-award-winning Scottish writer and historian describes how how travelling around India for the past 30 years has changed him, leading him to embrace the virtues of pluralism and open-mindedness
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Christina Lamb OBE British journalist and author Christina Lamb has reported on hotspots across the grobe. She looks back at her fi rst trip to Afghanistan, in the 1980s, and how it shaped a life-long love of the place and all its complexities.
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