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17 December 2005
Sandi Toksvig celebrates the 175th anniversary of The Royal Geographical Society.
The Royal Geographical Society was founded originally for the advancement of geographical science. Over the years it has supported many famous explorers and expeditions, including those of Darwin, Livingstone, Scott and Shackleton.
Sandi Toksvig is joined by writer and explorer, Redmond O'Hanlon, intrepid geographer, Nick Middleton and the Society's Director, Rita Gardner.
Together with their audience, in the heart of the Royal Geographical Society, they discuss tourism as a force for good or a destructive effect on local communities; the advisability of travelling to the world's danger spots, and what to do when camping in a wadi with the Omani army... There is also useful advice too on whether to take a penknife or a wife on an expedition.
Presented by Sandi Toksvig
This week's guests:
Redmond O'Hanlon, Writer and Explorer
Redmond was elected a member of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History in 1982, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in 1984.
Trawler: A Journey through the North Atlantic
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 0140276688
Nick Middleton, Travel writer and Geographer
Nick has travelled to more than 70 countries and has written several travel books. 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.
Extremes Along the Silk Road: Adventures Off the World's Oldest Superhighway
Publisher: John Murray
ISBN: 071956719X
Surviving Extremes
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 033043182X
Rita Gardner, Royal Geographical Society's Director
Rita became Director of the Royal Geographical Society (with The Institute of British Geographers) in August 1996. She is a member of the Society's Wahiba Sands Project in Oman and more recently as co-leader of the Institute of Hydrology/RGS-IBG Nepal Research Project 1990-96. Her research interests include Quaternary environmental change; and aeolian and tropical geomorphology. Rita Gardner was awarded the Society's Busk Medal, for contributions to geomorphology, in 1995.
Discovering Landscape in England and Wales
Andrew S. Goudie, Rita Gardner
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
ISBN: 0045510768
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