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Gone To Timbuktu

Gone To Timbuktu

By: Sophy Roberts
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 'Gone To Timbuktu', hosted by author and journalist Sophy Roberts, explores the art of travel with writers, poets, photographers and filmmakers. Conversations range from physical journeys to inner landscapes, creative influences and new ideas — themes explored further in the host's Substack, also called 'Gone To Timbuktu'.2023 Art Literary History & Criticism Social Sciences Travel Writing & Commentary
Episodes
  • Series 3 Ep 3: Leo Damrosch

    Series 3 Ep 3: Leo Damrosch
    Oct 31 2025

    The American master of biography talks about the subject of his most recent obsession: the Scottish traveller, South Seas adventurer and prose genius, Robert Louis Stevenson. To the likes of Henry James and Italo Calvino, Stevenson's 'kinetic' energy makes him one of the great storytellers of all time.
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    44 mins
  • Series 3 Ep 2: Monisha Rajesh

    Series 3 Ep 2: Monisha Rajesh
    Oct 17 2025

    On a far-reaching journey from Savannah to the Arctic Circle, we experience the joys (and fears) of night travel as told by one of the great contemporary travel writers on railways. This time, the focus is on sleeper trains, which are the stars of Monisha's latest book, Moonlight Express.
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    49 mins
  • Series 3 Ep 1: Lyse Doucet

    Series 3 Ep 1: Lyse Doucet
    Oct 2 2025

    Lyse Doucet, the BBC's Chief International Correspondent, discusses her first major book, The Finest Hotel in Kabul. An instant Sunday Times bestseller, it tells the story of the last 50 years of Afghan history through the everyday lives of people working in the same hotel Lyse has callled home during four decades of frontline conflict reporting.
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    56 mins
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