Broadcasting legend Shaun Keaveny will host new BBC Radio 4 travel podcast, Your Place Or Mine for BBC Sounds, where guests try to convince Shaun it’s worth getting off the sofa for.
Each week a familiar face will try to persuade Shaun and resident geographer, historian and comedian Iszi Lawrence that jetting off to their favourite destination is worth the hassle.
Across the series listeners will be able to figuratively globe-trot to a new destination, as guests share a personal guide to their favourite place on the planet. Iszi will be on hand to check out the facts during the podcast’s metaphorical tour of its visitors’ much-loved locations.
From Barbados to Pakistan, travel hotspots will be chosen by a different podcast guest each week. Guests will include Guy Garvey, Daliso Chaponda, Ching-He Huang, Sarah Kendall, Aatif Nawaz, Sikisa, Michaela Strachan, Steve Backshall and more.
Shaun Keaveny says: “I believe the be-hatted Ferrari-festooned brit jazz funkateer JK of Jamiroquoi wrote a song called TRAVELLING WITHOUT MOVING… and that is what I have been doing!
“I have genuinely loved doing a deep dive on a different destination every week on Your Place Or Mine, alongside my hilarious and eminent resident historian-geographer-comedian, Iszi Lawrence, and the best bit is, I didn’t have to go to Stansted once. Here’s hoping if we get another series they actually have enough budget to send us on tour.”
With all the missed travel these past two years, Your Place Or Mine will explore whether getting back on a plane is too much for our wallets and limited carbon budgets, or if seeing the world and experiencing global cultures is something we can’t afford to miss.
Your Place or Mine will be available on BBC Sounds from 21 April.
