Ark Radio Podcasts

Tim Mackintosh-Smith, historian and traveller, was born in 1961 and educated at Clifton College and Oxford University. His books include a travel trilogy pursuing the fourteenth-century wanderer, Ibn Battutah, around three continents. As well as being named by Newsweek as one of the twelve finest travel writers of the past hundred years, his editions and translations of early Arabic texts have further enriched cross-cultural understanding. Among other documentaries, Tim presented and co-wrote the major BBC TV series Travels with a Tangerine, which ʻhas the off-the-cuff feel of Michael Palin at his very bestʼ. He will be discussing Travels with a Tangerine at the Iqra Book Festival.