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Simon Calder, Mick Webb

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Booking Overview

A travel-focused show featuring Simon Calder and Mick Webb, blending expert travel coverage with travellers’ tales. It’s a strong fit for PR outreach to tourism, travel publishing, rail/aviation, and destination brands—especially when pitching subject-matter expertise around travel culture, logistics, and passenger experiences.

Metrics

Episodes: 257

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 4.6/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Male

Location: United Kingdom

YouTube: 7.5k subscribers

Contact Information

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Host

Simon Calder - Travel correspondent of The Independent and former BBC producer.

Mick Webb - Former BBC producer (co-hosted with Simon Calder).

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium
Typical Credentials:  
Academic or specialist authors/experts with credible knowledge of travel behavior, tourism research, or travel-related culture; also potentially professionals who can speak authoritatively about specific modes of travel or traveller experience
Required Achievements:  
Authored a book, Published academic or professional expertise related to travel

Recent Guest Discussions

Dr Andrew Stevenson - The Psychology Of Travel; Types Of Travellers; Ways Of Travelling

Recent Topics

Travel, Tourism, Rail, Aviation, Destinations

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
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THOUGHT-PROVOKING TRAVEL Podcast 245

July 05, 2026

Professor of philosophy, Emily Thomas, is today's guest. Our discussion includes the importance of cannibalism for John Locke's theories, an eighteenth century pile-on involving Mary Wollstonecraft's life and Emily's thoughts on her recent trip to Malawi. The photo of Malawian rock art is shown courtesy of UNESCO

BROADENING THE MIND Podcast 244

June 27, 2026

Dr Andrew Stevenson, senior lecturer in psychology at Manchester Metropolitan University discusses his book "The Psychology of Travel" published by Routledge. Types of traveller and different ways of travelling are on the agenda.

END OF AN ERA PODCAST 243

June 03, 2026

Discover declassified train carriages, how to walk in the shoes of others and enjoy a race across Europe to Leipzig. And Simon leaves the podcast.

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