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05 November 2005
ROUTEMASTER
A modest but fascinating period of British history is about to come to an end. After fifty years the Routemaster bus, London 's red painted mobile landmark, is soon to make its last run.
Sandi talks Freelance journalist Travis Elborough about his new book The Bus We Loved: London's Affair with the Routemaster and looks at its role in the capital's transport system. Can it really be bettered by the bendy bus?
EGYPT
Tourists have been visiting the antiquities of Egypt since time immemorial the ancient Greeks and Romans went on the classical equivalent of package tours to see the sphinx and the pyramids. Since then the civilisation has been rediscovered many times by tomb robbers, treasure seekers, archaeologists and sightseers.
Sandi Toksvig is joined by Egyptologist Joyce Tyldesley and Bill Dixon an archaeological tourist to find out what attractions the statues of Rameses the second and the treasures of Tutankhamen still hold.
Presented by Sandi Toksvig
This week's guests:
Travis Elborough, Freelance Journalist for the Guardian, Sunday times and the Oldie
The Bus We Loved: London 's Affair with the Routemaster
Travis Elborough
Publisher: Granta Books
ISBN: 1862077940
The Routemaster Association
known officially as the "Routemaster Operators and Owners Association" or RMOOA
Joyce Tyldesley, Freelance Egyptologist and author of Egypt, the book that accompanies the current BBC1 series of the same name.
Egypt, How A Lost Civilization Was Rediscovered
Joyce Tyldesley
Publisher: BBC Books
ISBN: 0563522577
Egypt
Sundays, 9pm, BBC ONE
Bill Dixon, retired pastor who is passionate about all things Egyptian
BBC Ancient History - Egyptians
Egypt Exploration SocietyThe BBC cannot be held responsible for
the content of external sites | | | | | | PRESENTER BIOGRAPHIES | | | | |  Sandi Toksvig:
The daughter of a foreign correspondent, Sandi has been travelling all her life more info | | |
 John McCarthy is a widely travelled journalist and presenter with a particular interest in the Middle East. | |
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