Culture
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Anthropology
A glimpse of the world’s heart
I wanted to visit Colombia’s sacred mountains. But there are some places we cannot go – and some things we cannot know
Nick Hunt
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Future of technology
Is this the future of space travel? Take a luxury ‘cruise’ across the solar system
6 minutes
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Art
Earthly delights
Noticing first one then many parrots, peacocks, owls and more birds in Old Master paintings taught me to truly see the world
Leanne Ogasawara
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History of technology
See the Mediterranean as it was captured in some of the earliest surviving photographs
20 minutes
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Rituals and celebrations
Beware the Nalujuit! A rare glimpse into a chilling Labrador Inuit tradition
13 minutes
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The ancient world
Wanderlust of the ancients
The Roman Empire enabled an early version of globalisation that offered travellers adventure, novelty and opportunity
Fabio Fernandes
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Biology
Journey deep into the Philippine forest in search of the world’s largest, rarest eagle
95 minutes
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The ancient world
Our trip to Antioch
Ancient Romans bought mementos to commemorate their travels. These speak eloquently of their world, if we care to listen
Maggie Popkin
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Animals and humans
What the ancient city of Kars looks like from the perspective of its stray dogs
9 minutes
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Travel
Dashing to nowhere
D H Lawrence’s restless travels in Sardinia were a quest for self-knowledge. The real island slipped beneath his notice
William Atkins
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Travel
A postcard from Mumbai, where there’s poetry in getting from A to B
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Travel
The end of travel
Driven by the need for a storied life, I relished the opportunity for endless travel. Is that a moment in time, now over?
Henry Wismayer
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Travel
‘My people!’ A Trinidadian’s love letter to his island, just before its 1962 independence
17 minutes
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Spirituality
Where the rivers meet
Pilgrims have long sought in India’s holiest city an antidote to the modern West, but Varanasi is more dream than reality
Manini Sheker
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Home
The rhythms of rural Thailand, where both food and music are sourced from the ground
15 minutes
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Home
Eccentrics, artists and Luddites find community on a remote Scottish peninsula
26 minutes
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Meaning and the good life
Maria’s life work is counting the pilgrims passing by on Spain’s Camino de Santiago
16 minutes
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Global history
‘Farcical situations’ and culture clashes – when Japan met modern Europe in 1862
18 minutes
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Travel
Fly with me
Jet-age glamour was more than just aesthetic: its promise of motionless movement reshaped perception of time and space
Vanessa R Schwartz
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Pleasure and pain
The ritualised excess of life aboard a cruise ship is tragic and parodic by turns
10 minutes
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Oceans and water
Who was Jack Tar?
He was a patriot and a prisoner, a delegate and a drunk; circling the globe when few Englishmen ever left their home counties
Stephen Taylor
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Anthropology
We are wayfinders
Navigation and spatial awareness sustained humans for tens of thousands of years. Have we lost the trail in modern times?
Michael Bond
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Travel
Postcards from Vladimirskoye – the sleepy town near the ‘Russian Atlantis’
9 minutes
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Travel
‘It’s a journey into slowness’: on the road with a Model-T Ford through Europe in winter
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