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	Podcast:		Great Lives
	Episode:		Dervla Murphy, author of the classic Full Tilt
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:27:38
	Publish Date:		2025-06-02 14:30:00
	Description:		At the age of 10 Dervla Murphy was given an atlas and a bicycle, and so began an adventurous life. Her account of a journey to India became a classic called Full Tilt but she also went to Cuba, Ethiopia and the Andes where our guest first met her in a doss house. Hilary Bradt is the founder of the Bradt Travel Guides and is picking Dervla Murphy as a great example of the adventurous female traveller, never afraid of a little hardship. Joining her in studio is Rose Baring who edited Dervla's last three books. A joyful episode which includes some excellent archive of Dervla Murphy plus the writer Antonia Quirke. The producer for BBC studios Audio in Bristol is Miles Warde
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