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Wild Britain & Wild Swimming - Mexican Bandit

Daniel Start reveals to John McCarthy the best inland sites for swimming in the wild - possibly even as nature intended.

WILD BRITAIN & WILD SWIMMING
Despite centuries of agriculture and urbanisation, the British Isles do still have their untamed spots. John McCarthy meets two travel writers who have explored them looking for less domesticated locations; Christopher Somerville shares the secret of some places, both remote and not-so-remote, where nature has the upper hand and Daniel Start reveals the best inland sites for swimming in the wild - possibly even as nature intended.

MEXICAN BANDIT
The Sierra Madre Occidental mountain range is a little known part of the world just south of the United States border. It stretches nearly a thousand miles down the west side of Mexico, a rugged landscape populated by tough people, where drug and gun running are part of the way of life. From his home in Tucson, Arizona British journalist, Richard Grant, heard frightening tales of murder and crime in the Chihuahua and Durango regions and resolved to visit them, attracted by the very dangers that scare most tourists away. He recounts his adventures there including the time when he came to be the subject of a manhunt.

30 minutes

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Sat 31 May 2008 10:00

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  • Sat 31 May 2008 10:00

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