{"id":568,"date":"2010-12-13T23:52:49","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T23:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelscribe.wordpress.com\/"},"modified":"2010-12-13T23:52:49","modified_gmt":"2010-12-13T23:52:49","slug":"media","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/media\/","title":{"rendered":"TV & Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Tiles-crop-web\"<\/a><\/h2>\n

BBC’s \u2018Saturday Live\u2019 – Sound Sculpture<\/h2>\n

30 June 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n

What I like about the British Media in general, and the BBC in particular, is that they\u2019ll let just about anyone have a go at broadcasting if they have something reasonably interesting to say. I\u2019d already appeared on the BBC\u2019s From Our Own Correspondent \u00a0(twice) and on Excess Baggage (also twice \u2013 talking about Sinai and Palestine respectively). But on 30 June 2012 a rather different story was broadcast, on Radio 4\u2032s Saturday morning programme, Saturday Live. This was part of their \u2018Sound Sculpture\u2019 series, where listeners pick a sound and describe what it means to them (great radio!). \u00a0So here\u2019s my Sound Sculpture, which pops up\u00a0around 12.30 minutes<\/a>\u00a0into the programme.<\/p>\n

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BBC’s \u2018Excess Baggage\u2019<\/h2>\n

21 January 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n

I was pleased to be invited back onto BBC Radio 4\u2032s flagship travel programme,\u00a0Excess Baggage<\/a>, which goes out live every Saturday morning to an audience of around 10 million, on January 21 2012 (the last time was in July 2010 – see below).<\/p>\n

This time the programme\u2019s theme was Palestine, hosted by the charming\u00a0John McCarthy<\/a>and with two other guests: the writer of a new\u00a0guidebook to Palestine<\/a>\u00a0and a young circus performer whose\u00a0troupe of clowns<\/a>\u00a0had recently been out to the region to perform to children. I was asked about my experience of walking there: meeting ordinary Palestinians, sharing meals cooked by local women and sleeping in Bedouin tents and village homes. I wanted to give an alternative view to the negative headlines and the stereotypes so often portrayed in Western media, and tell people about the beauty of the countryside and the warmth of the people I met there.<\/p>\n

One of my most memorable experiences when in Palestine was hearing a\u00a0shepherd play the flute to his flocks<\/a>, which I filmed. Another was hearing the memories of an old Bedouin sheikh,\u00a0which I wrote about\u00a0<\/a>in the Guardian (and added on a previous post) and the life story of the marvellous lady, well into her 70s and the daughter of an Orthodox priest, who runs theArab Women\u2019s Guest House<\/a>\u00a0in Beit Sahour near Bethlehem, which I stayed in and whose profits go towards women\u2019s projects in the area.<\/p>\n

And if anyone would like to visit Palestine, and share some of the same experiences, I recommend this not-for-profit organisation: the\u00a0Siraj Centre for Holy Land Studies<\/a>, who will arrange a tailor-made trip for you. Other\u00a0great organisations that offer walking\/cultural trips in Palestine are\u00a0Walk Palestine<\/a>\u00a0(or for cycling,\u00a0Bike Palestine<\/a>), and\u00a0Hijazi Travel<\/a>, run by a professional hiking guide.<\/p>\n

BBC \u2018From Our Own Correspondent\u2019<\/h2>\n

8 September 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n

‘Coffee Cups & Facebook Friends<\/strong>‘<\/p>\n

My trip to Palestine earlier this year proved a fruitful one, and I came back with many stories to tell. One rather personal story was recently broadcast on the BBC\u2019s \u2018From Our Own Correspondent<\/strong>\u2019<\/a> (second story) with this intoduction by the BBC\u2019s Alan Johnson:<\/p>\n

\u201cYou might say that in life, there are few more important things than finding the right person to love. But what\u2019s the best way of doing that? Some say it\u2019s all about personal feelings and romance \u2013 and luck letting the right two people meet at just the right time. But others aren\u2019t keen on leaving everything to chance. They would say that with a bit of planning, marriage and love can both be arranged. In many cultures and countries, people are finding their own ways to blend both approaches and take a little from each. For them, both traditional and modern strategies for mate-finding have their advantages. Gail Simmons has been watching one such relationship develop amid the hills of the West Bank.\u201d<\/p>\n

(And here\u2019s some more information<\/a> about the programme, which has been running for over 50 years.)<\/p>\n

BBC World Service \u2018From Our Own Correspondent\u2019<\/h2>\n

26 May 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n

I spoke about this rise of women in Palestinian society on the BBC World Service programme \u2018From Our Own Correspondent<\/a><\/strong>\u2018 (04.40 mins into the podcast), following a trip\u00a0 made in Palestine where I was walking on a new hiking trail, Abraham\u2019s Path<\/a><\/strong>, where I stayed with a Palestinian family in the village of Kufr Malek. I was very struck by how the village women were striving to get themselves educated and into the workplace, often earning more than the men. Tourism projects, such as Abraham\u2019s Path, were playing an important part in this. The full text of my piece is available under the Archive<\/strong> on my Home page.<\/p>\n

If you are based in the UK and want to walk on Abraham\u2019s Path in Palestine, this company<\/a><\/strong> can arrange it for you. If you are not in the UK contact this organisation<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

BBC’s ‘Excess\u00a0Baggage’<\/h2>\n
3 July, 2010<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Here\u2019s the link to my interview on the Radio 4 Excess Baggage<\/a> programme about Egypt\/Sinai, broadcast on Saturday 3 July 2010. My interview appears around 8 minutes into the broadcast.<\/p>\n

My feature on Sinai is appeared in Wanderlust<\/a> magazine (August-September issue, published 22 July 2010). And here\u2019s the link to the Makhad Trust<\/a>, which organises working parties and journeys in the Sinai (and with whom I went on a the desert retreat\/ fast).<\/p>\n

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TV interview on the Bedouin of\u00a0Sinai<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n

8 June 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n

I was interviewed on the Rattansi & Ridley<\/a> show about some of the problems faced by the Bedouin of Sinai. Some of my recent photos<\/a> were\u00a0 also broadcast.<\/p>\n

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