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The Travel Stage features: Stanfords Travel Writers Festival
Afternoon sessions with a lineup of TV personalities and the very best travel writers entertain with their tales of travel.
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Content subject to change. Scroll down to see the 2024 full timetable.
01 Feb 2024
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Travel has played a huge part in the life of Kate Humble, the well-known television presenter, author, naturalist, traveller and farmer. Here Kate will discuss her life in travel in conversation with ...
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Where should you go in 2024 and why? The team at the UK’s number one travel magazine reveal a few of the highlights from the highly anticipated Wanderlust Travel Hot List.
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What is luxury travel? — and how to book it within your budget including the exclusive experiences money can't buy
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During most of their history, Danes, Swedes and Norwegians were bloody enemies, and Scandinavia has been full of dramatic collapse and restarts, from the Viking Age to the modern era. Join political scientist Stein Ringen for a fascinating journey through more than 1,200 years of drama, economic rise and fall, crises, kings and queens, war, peace, language and culture, as he talks to Ann Morgan about Scandinavian History.
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What happens in space in the coming years will revolutionise life on earth, argues Tim Marshall, bestselling writer on geopolitics and leading authority on foreign affairs. He discusses the issues rai ...
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Being paid to explore sounded like a dream job. From Norway to Madagascar, by campervan, taxi, boat and small plane, Amelia Dalton hunted down remote archipelagos, deserted beaches and tiny local muse ...
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Barnaby Rogerson has been travelling the Islamic world for the last forty years, first as a young man writing guidebooks, then as a journalist, and finally as a writer of histories. He talks to Clare ...
02 Feb 2024
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A lively, visual discussion brought to you by Travel by B Corp collective in which some of the best loved travel brands in the UK share their favourite examples of wonderful travel experiences, and ho ...
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There are more of us travelling solo than ever before.. and you don’t have to be young, single or brave to do it. A panel of experts take us through why and how to travel solo with tips, tricks and i ...
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Enjoy the wonder of winter (even if you don’t ski) with our adventure experts
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Kuoni are delighted to host and welcome Simon Reeve to share stories of his travels to some of the world’s most exciting destinations with the audience at Destinations Show 2024. Simon, a bestselling ...
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Michel Roux is one of the world's most respected chefs, and this love of food runs through his family and heritage. He will be talking to cookery writer and presenter Jo Pratt about some of his favour ...
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For years Kate Rawles has combined adventure with environmental awareness – in the most eco-friendly ways she can. In 2016, aged 53, she built herself a bamboo bicycle and set out on an epic journey t ...
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Du Fu (712-70) is one of China’s greatest poets. His career coincided with periods of famine, war and huge upheaval, yet his secular philosophical vision, combined with his empathy for the common folk ...
03 Feb 2024
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Where should you go in 2024 and why? The team at the UK’s number one travel magazine reveal a few of the highlights from the highly anticipated Wanderlust Travel Hot List.
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Multigeneration holidays; alternative bucket-list places; budget safari ideas: plus brilliant tips on travelling with toddlers, nearly teens and 'kids' in their 20s
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This panel sessions will provide guests with tips and tricks from inside the industry on how to get the best holiday deal and make their money go further. From best time to book flights to best time t ...
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Join Nicky Kelvin, Head of The Points Guy UK for his latest tips and advice on how to maximise your travel using points and miles – all whilst helping you save money. From your supermarket shop to usi ...
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Join Dr Matt Morgan on an exhilarating journey across continents exploring his work on both the intensive care unit and the pages of his books. From Africa's heart to Canada's wilderness, Bali's mysti ...
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The Times Russia correspondent Tom Parfitt witnessed the bloody Beslan siege of 2004 by Chechen and Ingush militants in the Caucasus region of Southern Russian. Afterwards he embarked on a thousand mi ...
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Multi-award-winning comedian, travel writer and columnist Dom Joly went on a global journey, entering the strange land of conspiracies as a wide-eyed tourist, eager to investigate the origins of some ...
04 Feb 2024
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Midlife women are the new power demographic in travel. So, who are they? Well I'm one and I've run round Everest and walked the length of Morocco and the Sahara. We are 45+ women and 68% of us put tra ...
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From Turkey to Tanzania we've got the inspiration you need
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Our planet is changing and so is the way we travel. As we adapt to new technologies, climates and ideas, we open the way to different ways of seeing the world. The team at the UK’s number one travel m ...
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Hear Britain’s leading travel commentator Simon Calder, speak on his top 2024 destination recommendations followed by an audience Q&A. This is your opportunity to put your burning questions to him!
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Travelling a thousand miles and across three billion years, Christopher Somerville (walking correspondent of The Times and author of Coast, The January Man and Ships of Heaven) sets out to interrogate ...
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For over 60 years John Blashford-Snell has been exploring some of the planet’s most remote, inaccessible and dangerous places; his name is known globally for his daring adventures and intrepid journey ...
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Victoria Hislop is passionate about Greece and its people. She divides her time between England and Greece and in 2020, was granted honorary citizenship by the President. She talks to Ann Morgan about ...