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Slicker Cities

Slicker Cities
Victoria Derby Day in Melbourne passes largely in monochrome. That is not to say it is dull – tens of thousands of people attend the 140-year-old race which traditionally marks the start of Melbourne Cup week, and most hell-bent on having a good time. But a history that no one..
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  • 8 Mar
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What Becky Said

What Becky Said
One of the first things a broadcaster learns is how to control their voice: intonation, pronunciation and, crucially, pacing. Veteran CNN presenter Becky Anderson does all of this perfectly on air, but off it things are a good deal pacier. For example, when asked if there’s such a thing as..
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  • 11 Dec
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The Return of Ali Mostafa

The Return of Ali Mostafa
Ali Mostafa looks like the most relaxed man in the UAE when he should be anything but. I meet him in a Dubai café, five weeks before his second feature, From A to B, is to open the eighth Abu Dhabi Film Festival. The final version of his film was..
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  • 11 Dec
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Finding Leviathan

Finding Leviathan
It’s hard to quantify the enormity of a whale. A North Atlantic right whale can weigh as much as 10 African elephants. So what? Unless life has taken you down an unlikely path that requires you regularly interact with elephants, that’s a fairly meaningless comparison. Telling you that blue whale..
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  • 1 Oct
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Be Careful What You Piss For

Be Careful What You Piss For
It’s disgusting, of course. I am disgusting. I think that again and again as I refill my idiotically large cup at a Burger King soda fountain, somewhere just south of Miami. If it hadn’t taken so long to get through immigration, I wouldn’t be reduced to this, but after three..
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  • 8 Aug
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The Great White Hope

The Great White Hope
When I ejaculate and the cry of “Geronimo!” goes up and my boys – my beautiful boys – go over the top, it’s the equivalent of 6,100 London Marathons starting at the same time. It’s a mad, violent race in which there can be only one winner. You’d think it’d..
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  • 8 Aug
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Loathing Las Vegas

Loathing Las Vegas
I have no cocaine, nor any mescaline. I don’t have any ether, either. The skies are mercifully bat-free, and yet, the longer I spend in Las Vegas, the more peculiar I feel. Half of the city lies abandoned or half-finished in financial crisis gloom, but like Iron Man, it still..
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  • 8 Aug
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The Miracle Makers?

The Miracle Makers?
There exists a world where the blind once again see, where the mentally infirm find serenity, and arthritics are liberated from pain. The paralysed can move again, diabetic pancreases are revived. Almost all chains of disease and suffering are broken. It is a good world, one full of hope, and..
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  • 8 Aug
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G.O.T. Milked

G.O.T. Milked
Molly isn’t a Game of Thrones character, but with one brilliant blue eye and one gloomy brown, she looks like she should be. As she sashays from room to room of the show’s sprawling costume department at Painthall Studios in Belfast, Northern Ireland, she seems largely disinterested by the forest..
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  • 8 Aug
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Cruel Runnings

Cruel Runnings
Day One “The last Ice Age moved quicker…” That’s the verdict of Scott Allaway, an overly honest bobsleigh brakeman, having witnessed my sluggish 30m sprint trial. Bobsleigh training starts with this assessment of speed and though I have some excuses (cruciate ligament surgery for one; zero natural pace for another)..
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  • 19 Oct
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Be Careful What You Piss For

Be Careful What You Piss For

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  • 8 Aug
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South Georgia On My Mind

South Georgia On My Mind

Polar Writing
  • 18 Jan
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Salt, Stars and Survival

Salt, Stars and Survival

Travel
  • 21 Dec
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Land of the Faroes

Land of the Faroes

Travel
  • 26 Jun
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The Deep Mani

The Deep Mani

Travel
  • 26 Jun
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Jamie Lafferty on 19 Jul
Land of the Faroes

I'd still recommend going. Just don't eat whale when you're there – it's on plenty of menus.

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Jamie Lafferty on 19 Jul
The Teeth of Navarino Island

Hi Trev, nah I doubt it – it's just a bit too remote and the infrastructure isn't there.

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