New Statesman - Living Like God in Odesa
New Statesman - Dispatch: How long can Poland bear the Ukrainian refugee burden?
Financial Times - It’s Not All About the Bike
Financial Times - The Milky Way
Times Literary Supplement - Palms on the horizon
Times Literary Supplement - Upside down seasons
Financial Times - Chestnut Country
The Calvert Journal - Tajikistan’s Cultural History in 7 artworks
Southbank Centre - Tea Talk: A Journey Through Central Asia
The Calvert Journal - 100 Books to Read from Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Times Literary Supplement - The stories that shaped the Russian table
Times Literary Supplement - Water, Wood, and Wild Things
The Sunday Times - Silk Road adventure
Times Literary Supplement - Book review The Biscuit, Lizzie Collingham
The Guardian - Feasts and holy days in the Kazakhstan desert
Times Literary Supplement - Eggs, gowns and vodka
The Guardian - The best food books to take you overseas
Psyche - Cigarette! Exquisite fiend, ephemeral friend, how I miss you
Times Literary Supplement - What Lies Beyond
The Guardian - Easter in Uzbekistan – and in the footsteps of Ella Christie
Times Literary Supplement - The art of living in a hard place
Cornucopia Magazine - Variations on a theme of exile
Times Literary Supplement - Armenian Food
Financial Times - The Magic of Uzbek Winter Melons
Times Literary Supplement - Maritime Skulduggery
The Guardian - Turkey’s Black Sea coast: food to drive for
The Guardian - A Backpacker’s Guide to Uzbekistan
Times Literary Supplement - Fernweh, Wild Women
Times Literary Supplement - Trouble in Cow Paradise
London Review of Books - Under the Black Sea
The Guardian - China's new high-speed train from Hong Kong to Guangzhou
Times Literary Supplement - Deserts in Travel Writing
LA Review of Books - A Kitchen Window Peepshow
London Review of Books - Ella Christie, Japan and Samarkand
Financial Times - Tashkent Tales, book review of Hamid Ismailov’s The Devils’ Dance
LA Review of Books - A Nobel Tradition: Rabindranath Tagore — the First Songwriter to Win the Prize
Conde Nast Traveller - Eating in Edinburgh
Daily Telegraph - Bowie, Buddhists and sunken cities: 10 things you didn't know about the Trans-Siberian Railway
The Guardian - A Local’s Guide to Edinburgh
The Guardian - Best of the Baltics
The Guardian - The cult of Babel: Odessa's literary flashmobs
The Guardian - Odessa's new parks lead a blossoming of urban regeneration
The Guardian - The Istanbul Research Institute … a lot more interesting than it sounds
The Guardian - San Francisco, 50 years on from the Summer of Love
The Guardian - Kickin’ Kiev
Daily Telegraph - Central Asia: Under a Crescent Moon and Lenin’s Gaze
Daily Telegraph - Travelling in Kazakhstan
Geographical magazine - Central Asia 25 years on after the fall of the Soviet Union
The Guardian - On board the Trans-Siberian Railway for a centenary ride
The Guardian - Uzbekistan's magnificent cities: where Soviet style meets Islamic heritage
National Geographic Traveller - Central Asia: On the trail of the Silk Road
Wanderlust magazine - Travelling the Pamir Highway - Tajikistan
Financial Times -A bullet-train across China
Financial Times - A tug boat in Canada
Financial Times - Postcard from Iceland
Financial Times - Time travel in Heimaey, Iceland
The Guardian - Uzbekistan’s magnificent cities
The Guardian - Hauz Khas, Delhi
The Telegraph - Out of Africa in Kenya
The Telegraph - Trekking in Tajikistan
Independent - Return to Haiti
The Guardian - Plov: Uzbekistan’s national obsession
Daily Telegraph - Coconut and egg... orange and olives: the new flavour pairings
Daily Telegraph - How Britain became a nation of chilli-heads
Daily Telegraph - How saffron found a place on modern menus
Financial Times - Quick Bites - Breaking bread in Uzbekistan
The Guardian - Mum’s Cooking in Mumbai
The Telegraph - interview with Diana Henry
The Guardian - interview with Kay Plunkett-Hogge about Bangkok
The Guardian - interview with John Torode about Sydney
The Guardian - interview with Malacy Tallack about Fair Isle
The Guardian - interview with Jason Goodwin about Istanbul
The Guardian - interview with Fiona Caulfield about Kolkata
The Guardian - interview with Buddhist nun Emma Slade on Bhutan
Occasionally, I contribute to From Our Own Correpondent (or ‘ FOOC' as it’s fondly known by its contributors) on BBC Radio 4 and the World Service.
I am almost certainly better at writing the scripts than reading them out, but to me FOOC is the perfect format: 750 words, which translates to five-minutes of radio. I am a real fan of this show and tune in on Saturdays or download the podcast when I travel. Podcasts are available here
My own FOOC’s have covered vodou priests in Haiti, shamans in Kazakhstan, archivists in Ukraine, Bangladeshi tribal kings, brides in Samarkand and master weavers in both Uzbekistan and Bangladesh.