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19 November 2005
MONTSERRAT
Ten years ago the volcano on the Caribbean Island of Montserrat erupted without much warning. The entire capital, Plymouth, once one of the prettiest towns in the Caribbean was drowned by rivers of lava and ash. Sandi assess the impact of this natural disaster on the tourism of Montserrat and the lives of its inhabitants.
VENICE
"There is notoriously nothing more to be said on the subject," wrote Henry James about Venice, a city he loved with a passion and in which he completed his novel, Portrait of a Lady.
Sandi Toksvig is joined by the American writer John Berendt and social anthropologist Garry Marvin, to prove why Henry James was wrong and to investigate this extraordinary Italian city, steeped in ritual and tradition but isolated geographically and culturally from the outside world.
Presented by Sandi Toksvig
This week's guests:
Ernestine Cassell, Minister for Tourism in Montserrat and the Director of the Montserrat Tourist Board
Jonathan Skinner, Writer and Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the School of Anthropological Studies, Queen's University, Belfast
Before The Volcano: Reverberations of Identity on Montserrat
Arawak Publications
(Kingston, Jamaica - e-mail: [email protected])
ISBN 976 8189 21 5
The Government of Montserrat and the Montserrat Volcano Observatory
(Official Releases Concerning the Situation at Soufriere Hills Volcano, Montserrat, West Indies)
John Berendt, American author
The City of Falling Angels
Publisher: Sceptre
ISBN: 0340824980
Garry Marvin, Social Anthropologist, Roehampton University
Venice . The Tourist Maze : A Cultural Critique of the World's Most Touristed City
RC Davis, G R Marvin
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520241207
Venice in Peril
(British Committee for the Preservation of Venice)
Italia
(Italian Government Tourist Board)The 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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