Personal Landscapes

By Ryan Murdock

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Episodes: 63

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Ryan Murdock talks with the world’s most original writers, publishers and travelers to get the story behind great books about place. www.personallandscapespodcast.com

Episode Date
Kyle Chayka on how the internet flattened culture
May 13, 2025
Sophy Roberts on A Training School for Elephants
Apr 29, 2025
Joseph Koudelka with biographer Melissa Harris
Apr 15, 2025
Clair Wills on Ireland’s missing persons
Apr 01, 2025
Deborah Lawrenson on her mother the spy
Mar 18, 2025
Michael Asher on crossing the Sahara by camel
Mar 04, 2025
Charles Nicholl on Rimbaud’s lost Africa years
Feb 18, 2025
Paul Theroux on life’s vanishing points
Feb 04, 2025
Pamela Petro on the Welsh presence of absence
Jan 21, 2025
Katja Hoyer on daily life in East Germany
Jan 07, 2025
Julian Evans on Odesa and Ukraine
Dec 24, 2024
Jeffrey Meyers on charting parallel lives
Dec 10, 2024
Cam Honan on the hiking life
Nov 26, 2024
Richard Grant: A race to the bottom of crazy
Nov 12, 2024
Lesley Downer on poetry in Japan’s deep north
Oct 29, 2024
Thomas Swick: Life in Cold War Poland
Oct 15, 2024
Ian Fleming with biographer Nicholas Shakespeare
Aug 07, 2024
Kapka Kassabova: Europe’s last nomadic pastoralists
Jul 02, 2024
Eric Cline: Why civilization ended in 1177 B.C.
Jun 11, 2024
Paul Theroux on Orwell and Burma Sahib
May 27, 2024
Jonathan Raban: one of our greatest writers on place
May 14, 2024
James Salter: with biographer Jeffrey Meyers
Apr 30, 2024
Andrew Finkel: Sherlock Holmes and the Ottoman Empire
Apr 16, 2024
The Wakhan Corridor with Bill Colegrave
Apr 02, 2024
Justin Marozzi: Tamerlane and Samarkand
Mar 19, 2024
Alex Kerr: Finding hidden Japan
Mar 04, 2024
Barnaby Rogerson: The making of the Middle East
Feb 02, 2024
Sarah Anderson: Founding The Travel Bookshop
Dec 11, 2023
Louisa Waugh: Life on the edge of Mongolia
Nov 21, 2023
Bruce Chatwin: with editor and friend Susannah Clapp
Nov 07, 2023
Laura Trethewey: Mapping our unknown oceans
Oct 24, 2023
Tim Cocks: Life in Africa’s biggest megacity
Oct 10, 2023
Jeremy Bassetti: Pilgrims on Bolivia’s Hill of Skulls
Sep 26, 2023
The Pyrenees: Matthew Carr on Europe’s savage frontier
Sep 12, 2023
Simon Winchester: Outposts at the edge of the world
Aug 29, 2023
Tom Parfitt: Walking the High Caucasus
Aug 15, 2023
Richard Grant: Travels With American Nomads
Jul 04, 2023
Anthony Sattin: How nomads shaped settled civilization
May 31, 2023
The Sahara with Eamonn Gearon
May 11, 2023
Eastern Europe with Jacob Mikanowski
Apr 20, 2023
Berlin with Barney White-Spunner
Apr 04, 2023
Joseph Roth: The collapse of the civilized world
Mar 22, 2023
Norman Lewis: The 20th century’s greatest travel writer
Mar 07, 2023
Steve Kilbey: writing, lyrics & songs about place
Dec 01, 2022
Gordon Peake: Insider stories from the world of foreign aid
Nov 14, 2022
Edith Durham: The traveler who became Albania’s mountain queen
Sep 30, 2022
David Thompson and the mapping of Canada
Sep 07, 2022
Rebecca Lowe: Cycling through the Middle East’s fractured mosaic
Jul 26, 2022
Martha Gellhorn: with biographer Caroline Moorehead
May 27, 2022
Guy Kennaway: Life in a Jamaican village
May 13, 2022
Sophie Haydock: Egon Schiele and fin de siècle Vienna
Mar 12, 2022
Carole Angier: The strange world of W.G. Sebald
Feb 20, 2022
David Eimer: Cultural survival in China’s borderlands
Jan 29, 2022
Dervla Murphy: Reflections on a lifetime of travel
Dec 09, 2021
Nigel Barley: The Innocent Anthropologist
Oct 01, 2021
Jeremy Seal: Modern Turkey and the 1960 coup
Aug 18, 2021
John Gimlette: Madagascar, and ‘walking the dead’
Aug 05, 2021
Sara Wheeler: Russia, Antarctica and how we shape stories
Jul 21, 2021
Jerry Kobalenko: Searching for ghosts on Ellesmere Island
Jul 02, 2021
Lawrence Millman: the Arctic, technology and saving stories
Jun 22, 2021
Rory Maclean: Berlin, Bowie and the new Cold War
Jun 15, 2021
Anthropology-lite with Barnaby Rogerson of Eland books
Jun 08, 2021
Introducing... Personal Landscapes
Jun 06, 2021