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The Return Of The Native

20110530

Ox Travels features original stories from twenty-five top travel writers; this week we'll be featuring five of these stories.

Each of the stories takes as its theme a meeting life-changing, affecting, amusing by turn and together they transport readers into a brilliant, vivid atlas of encounters.

In 'The Return of the Native', Nicholas Shakespeare tells the story of his Brazilian brother in law's journey to Africa to confront, for the first time, the shocking facts of his family's roots in slavery.

A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.

Madam Say Go

20110531

Ox Travels features original stories from twenty-five top travel writers; this week we'll be featuring five of these stories.

Each of the stories takes as its theme a meeting life-changing, affecting, amusing by turn and together they transport readers into a brilliant, vivid atlas of encounters.

Sonia Faleiro describes a meeting with a young woman returning home to India after a life in domestic servitude in Abu Dhabi, and investigates the terrible conditions suffered by many foreign workers in the Gulf.

A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.

Sonia Faleiro describes a meeting with a young woman returning home to India.

The Piece Of String

20110601

Ox Travels features original stories from twenty-five top travel writers; this week we'll be featuring five of these stories.

Each of the stories takes as its theme a meeting life-changing, affecting, amusing by turn and together they transport readers into a brilliant, vivid atlas of encounters.

Shehan Karunatilaka climbs up the staircase at Adam's Peak in Sri Lanka in search of a man who dispenses a length of string for the wrist to help bring fortune and ward off calamity.

A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.

Shehan Karunatilaka looks for a man in Sri Lanka who dispenses a string to bring fortune.

The Man Who Laughed In A Tomb

20110602

Ox Travels features original stories from twenty-five top travel writers; this week we'll be featuring five of these stories.

Each of the stories takes as its theme a meeting life-changing, affecting, amusing by turn and together they transport readers into a brilliant, vivid atlas of encounters.

Anthony Sattin tells the story of Abdu who lives in a graveyard in Cairo, where the attitude towards death and the dead is altogether more relaxed and familial than it is in Britain.

A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.

Anthony Sattin tells the story of Abdu who lives in a graveyard in Cairo.

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The Wrestler

20110603

Ox Travels features original stories from twenty-five top travel writers; this week we'll be featuring five of these stories.

Each of the stories takes as its theme a meeting life-changing, affecting, amusing by turn and together they transport readers into a brilliant, vivid atlas of encounters.

Rory Stewart tells the story of the Turquoise Mountain project which he launched with local people to regenerate a poverty-stricken district in Kabul.

Rory Stewart tells the story of the Turquoise Mountain project he launched with locals.

Episodes

Episode	Title	First Broadcast	Comments
01	The Return Of The Native	20110530	Ox Travels features original stories from twenty-five top travel writers; this week we'll be featuring five of these stories. Each of the stories takes as its theme a meeting life-changing, affecting, amusing by turn and together they transport readers into a brilliant, vivid atlas of encounters. In 'The Return of the Native', Nicholas Shakespeare tells the story of his Brazilian brother in law's journey to Africa to confront, for the first time, the shocking facts of his family's roots in slavery. A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
02	Madam Say Go	20110531	Ox Travels features original stories from twenty-five top travel writers; this week we'll be featuring five of these stories. Each of the stories takes as its theme a meeting life-changing, affecting, amusing by turn and together they transport readers into a brilliant, vivid atlas of encounters. Sonia Faleiro describes a meeting with a young woman returning home to India after a life in domestic servitude in Abu Dhabi, and investigates the terrible conditions suffered by many foreign workers in the Gulf. A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. Sonia Faleiro describes a meeting with a young woman returning home to India.
03	The Piece Of String	20110601	Ox Travels features original stories from twenty-five top travel writers; this week we'll be featuring five of these stories. Each of the stories takes as its theme a meeting life-changing, affecting, amusing by turn and together they transport readers into a brilliant, vivid atlas of encounters. Shehan Karunatilaka climbs up the staircase at Adam's Peak in Sri Lanka in search of a man who dispenses a length of string for the wrist to help bring fortune and ward off calamity. A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. Shehan Karunatilaka looks for a man in Sri Lanka who dispenses a string to bring fortune.
04	The Man Who Laughed In A Tomb	20110602	Ox Travels features original stories from twenty-five top travel writers; this week we'll be featuring five of these stories. Each of the stories takes as its theme a meeting life-changing, affecting, amusing by turn and together they transport readers into a brilliant, vivid atlas of encounters. Anthony Sattin tells the story of Abdu who lives in a graveyard in Cairo, where the attitude towards death and the dead is altogether more relaxed and familial than it is in Britain. A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. Anthony Sattin tells the story of Abdu who lives in a graveyard in Cairo.
05 LAST	The Wrestler	20110603	Ox Travels features original stories from twenty-five top travel writers; this week we'll be featuring five of these stories. Each of the stories takes as its theme a meeting life-changing, affecting, amusing by turn and together they transport readers into a brilliant, vivid atlas of encounters. Rory Stewart tells the story of the Turquoise Mountain project which he launched with local people to regenerate a poverty-stricken district in Kabul. Rory Stewart tells the story of the Turquoise Mountain project he launched with locals.