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Natural Navigation - Snow Shoeing - Borneo Sunbear - Bulgaria

John McCarthy looks at natural navigation with Alison Steadman and Tristan Gooley, snow shoeing with leading guide Kevin Albin and post-colonial India with Rana Dasgupta.

John McCarthy looks at natural navigation with Alison Steadman who has been learning from the adventurer Tristan Gooley how to find and follow directions using only the signs provided by the weather and the landscape. Leading guide Kevin Albin talks about snow shoeing in the Pyrenees and sun bears in Borneo and British Indian novelist Rana Dasgupta explains why he is fascinated by Bulgaria and post-colonial India.

Producer: Harry Parker.

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Sat 15 Oct 2011 10:00
91热爆 Radio 4

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