The Travel Show
Season 2022
The BBC news presents that intrduce interest unique spots and experiences in beautiful pictures.
Where to Watch The Travel Show • Season 2022
44 Episodes
- Melbourne Bounces Back
E1Melbourne Bounces BackChrista Larwood is in Melbourne, Australia to see how the city’s restaurants have survived the world’s longest cumulative lockdown. The team visits Fire Island National Park in New York State to find out why it occupies a special place in LGBT history. Emeline Nsingi Nkosi heads for Paris to find out about its competing bids for Unesco World Heritage status. - Podlife: Tokyos Capsule Tower
E2Podlife: Tokyos Capsule TowerCarmen Roberts visits Tokyo's landmark Nakagin Tower, an eye-catching example of capsule living from the 1970s, to find out why it's about to be demolished. Simon Calder rounds up some of the travel highlights of 2022, and we meet the woman who left her busy metropolitan life for a new start in the arctic wilderness. - The Best Bits: Winter/Spring 2022
E10The Best Bits: Winter/Spring 2022Christa Larwood rounds up some of team's favourite trips from the last few months, including a look ahead to this year's Fifa World Cup preparations in Qatar and a visit to Melbourne as Australia relaxed some of the tightest lockdown measures in the world. - Warehouse of Wonders
E11Warehouse of WondersChrista Larwood's in the Netherlands to find out why some of Europe's best-known museums are opening their archives to the public. The team heads to India to meet the historians cataloguing Delhi's historical treasures, and Kate Hardie-Buckley is in Reykjavik in search of Iceland's best food. - Pompeii Robots in the Ruins
E12Pompeii Robots in the RuinsLucy Hedges heads to the city of Naples to see how staff at Pompeii are using four-legged robots and drones fitted with lasers to uncover more about what life was like in this ancient city. Cat Moh continues her trip around Britain's biggest attractions to find out how they're emerging from Covid - this week, she's at Alton Towers theme park, and adventurer Karolis Mieliauskas begins his human-powered voyage along Sri Lanka's Hamilton Canal, exploring the likely effects of climate change on this island nation. - Rewilding Patagonia
E13Rewilding PatagoniaCarmen Roberts heads to Chile to see the results of what some people are calling the world's biggest rewilding project. The team meets the artist and historian on a mission to catalogue all the Islamic public art in the Lebanese city of Tripoli, before neglect and the elements do their worst. And we catch up with adventurer Karolis Mieliauskas as he attempts to travel the length of Sri Lanka's Hamilton Canal by kayak. - City of Stories
E14City of StoriesRajan Datar is in Dublin, a Unesco City of Literature, as it celebrates 100 years since the publication of James Joyce's epic novel Ulysses. He visits Trinity College Dublin's iconic Old Library, where an ambitious restoration is underway to save their collection of 750,000 books. Also in the show, Simon Calder is back with money-saving tips for tight travel budgets, and adventurer Karolis Mieliauskas ends his punishing paddle boat journey up Sri Lanka's Hamilton Canal. - Acropolis Now
E15Acropolis NowAde Adepitan is in Athens to visit the Acropolis, Greece's most popular tourist attraction. He experiences new improvements to accessibility made at the site and explores the controversy that surrounds them. We join an Athens-based cat charity to find out how their feline friends fared over the pandemic, and Kate Hardie-Buckley takes part in another culinary challenge, this time in the Spanish city of Malaga. - The Best House in Belfast
E18The Best House in BelfastThe team heads to Bavaria to go behind the scenes of a once-in-a-decade German passion play. Simon Calder celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of interrailing in Europe, and Rajan Datar spends a night in the restored childhood home of George Best - Northern Ireland's most famous footballer. - Scotland's Royal Retreat
E19Scotland's Royal RetreatAs the UK celebrates the platinum jubilee, Rajan heads to Balmoral Castle, the Queen's holiday home in the Scottish Highlands, and finds out how to holiday like a royal on a budget. Also, Green Guide returns with tips on how to make the summer festival season more sustainable, and we explore the new Bob Dylan Centre in the USA. - Yellowstone National Park
E20Yellowstone National ParkOn this week's Travel Show Lucy Hedges heads to Yellowstone National Park in the USA to meet the conservationists reintroducing bison to traditional native American homelands - 150 years on from the creation of the huge park. We are in Hong Kong to report on a growing interest in the game of mahjong amongst young people, and visit a troupe of acrobats in Cambodia who are preparing to perform again following a tough time during Covid - Best Bits Summer 2022
E21Best Bits Summer 2022The team take a look back at some of their favourite trips from the last few months: Ade Adepitan revisits the Acropolis in Athens to check out accessibility for disabled travellers, Carmen Roberts is in Chile uncovering the secrets of the world's oldest mummies, and Christa Larwood heads to Amsterdam, where scientists have come up with a novel idea to attract tourists - recreating the smells of medieval Europe. - Passengers with a Purpose
E25Passengers with a PurposeEmeline Nsingi Nkosi finds out what life is like as an international volunteer on board the world's biggest civilian hospital ship. The Green Guide's back, asking how to travel sustainably on a budget, and the team is in India, taking a look at a new record-breaking railway bridge in the Himalayas. - Underwater Gondoliers of Venice
E26Underwater Gondoliers of VeniceCarmen Roberts meets the gondoliers-turned-scuba divers now responsible for cleaning the canals of Venice, Lucy Hedges is in Brighton testing out the latest festival gadgets, and we meet chef Yurii Kovryzhenko who is setting up a restaurant in London which will be staffed entirely by refugees from Ukraine. - Sun, Sea and Kite Surfing
E32Sun, Sea and Kite SurfingWe're in Tarifa in southern Spain, where high winds make it the perfect place to hold the annual World Kite Surfing Championships. We also head to Turkey to discover how the city of Mardin is becoming a hub for contemporary art. And as the music festival season comes to an end in the UK, we go behind-the-scenes at an event that hosts over 60,000 people every year to discover how all the mind-boggling logistics come together! - Daytripper Compilation
E33Daytripper CompilationFollowing two years of travel restrictions, this summer marked a return of tourists to the UK. In this special programme Cat Moh and Lucy Hedges look back at visits they made to some of the UK’s top destinations and attractions as they geared up to welcome tourists back. - Take Me to Titanic - Part 1
E34Take Me to Titanic - Part 1A group of fee-paying adventurers travel to the bottom of the ocean in an innovative submersible, hoping to explore the world's most famous wreck, the Titanic. The expedition also hopes to gain new insights into deep sea biodiversity around the wreck site. Part 1 of 2. - Take Me to Titanic - Part 2
E35Take Me to Titanic - Part 2In the final part of this special series, The Travel Show team continue their journey with a group of fee-paying visitors as they begin their descent to the wreck of the Titanic. They have the hope of fulfilling lifelong ambitions to visit the remains of the famous, sunken liner, in the depths of the Atlantic Ocean. - Estonia Bogs by the Baltic
E36Estonia Bogs by the BalticChrista Larwood visits Estonia to find out why some Russian monuments are being removed from public view, while other reminders of the Soviet era are being restored and revived. She finds out how the country has launched a new visa system to encourage remote workers to set up shop in the capital Tallinn, and she tries out bog swimming in the country’s vast and wild peatlands. - How Does a Blind Girl Go On Safari
E37How Does a Blind Girl Go On SafariVisually impaired social media star Lucy Edwards heads to Kenya for one of nature's most extraordinary events: 'The Great Migration'. It's one of the largest animal migrations in the world, in which over 1.5 million wildebeests make the perilous journey from Tanzania to Kenya in search of fresh grazing. But how will Lucy experience this once-in-a-lifetime must-see spectacular? In part one Lucy arrives in Nairobi but soon realises she's a fish out of water. But help is at hand when she meets Will, a guide who promises to tune her senses into Africa's landscape before embarking on her biggest adventure yet. Part 1 of 2. - How Does a Blind Girl Go On Safari, Part 2
E38How Does a Blind Girl Go On Safari, Part 2It's the finale of The Travel Show special 'How Does a Blind Girl Go on Safari?'. Visually impaired Lucy Edwards makes her way to the Maasai Mara for 'The Great Migration', said to be one of nature's most spectacular events. In this episode, Lucy comes across the last line of defence against rhino poaching, hikes down to the foot of Thomson's Falls, and spends the day at a Maasai Village. But will she get the chance to experience one of the elusive river crossings where wildebeest risk their lives passing lions and crocodiles? - 19/11/2022
E3919/11/2022Eva Zu Beck heads to Mexico to meet a man who is taking the sting out of snake bites, Cat Moh is off to the Azores to taste the local volcanic wine and the team head to the Highlands of Scotland to check out a network of mysterious stone structures that are a symbol of Scotland's unique archaeological past. - Ibiza vs Type One Diabetes
E41Ibiza vs Type One DiabetesIbiza vs Type One Diabetes. BBC Radio 1xtra DJ Reece Parkinson tests out if you can tackle the Spanish party island and keep a health condition like type one diabetes in check. Surfs up in Senegal, as Emeline Nsingi Nkosi rides the waves with an all-female surf team in West Africa. - Say Cheese! A Tuscan Adventure
E42Say Cheese! A Tuscan AdventureAde Adepitan is in Tuscany to take part in an unusual cheese-rolling competition down the steep streets of Volterra. Cat Moh is in the Azores, where locals are using volcanic energy to power up the local tourism industry, and Nick Kwek tests his taste buds on some unique Turkish recipes. - 17/12/2022
E4317/12/2022As Egypt celebrates the centenary year of the discovery of King Tutankhamun’s burial chamber, Rajan Datar heads to Luxor to come face to face with the Boy King himself. He hears about efforts to highlight the part Egyptians played in the astonishing find, including the contribution of one 12-year-old boy whose ‘mistake’ may have changed everything. Elsewhere, the team’s in Austria meeting the terrifying figure whose Christmas spirit is a bit darker than Santa’s. And in Glasgow to find out why panto audiences there used to be some of the toughest in Britain.
