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Kim's India, Apps and Tweets

Kim's India, Apps and Tweets

FromExcess Baggage


Kim's India, Apps and Tweets

FromExcess Baggage

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Length:
28 minutes
Released:
Oct 16, 2010
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

John McCarthy talks to Doreen Tayler who explored northwest India visiting places featuring in Rudyard Kipling's novel Kim. The trail lead her to places that defied her expectations, from strange rituals on the Pakistan border to the summer capital of the Raj and she discovered the best places are not always the most visited.



Modern computer technology is making its mark on the way we travel and John meets Rough Guides founder Mark Ellingham who is now producing guide 'apps' for mobile phones and Paul Smith a writer and blogger who journeyed to New Zealand relying entirely on offers made on the phone message service, Twitter. He asks them if the traditional guide book is dying.



Producer: Harry Parker.
Released:
Oct 16, 2010
Format:
Podcast episode

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