GrownUpLand

15. Travelling

What can travelling bring to our lives? How do we remain respectful of cultural differences while aware of inequalities? Is a hot air balloon the best method of transport ever invented? Join Mae, Bisha, Ned and Steve as they wrap their small heads around it all. This week, Mae reveals how she found herself in Nepal, Bisha investigates why taking your laptop on holiday is a no no and Ned's been on a jolly to that classic tourist destination, Armenia. The cheekiest man in Britain Adam Hess joins the gang in the studio and Steve Ali puts everything into perspective. 
 
Co-created by Deborah Frances-White for The Spontaneity Shop and BBC Radio 4.Produced by Al RiddellMusic by Mark Hodge and Omahrose, produced by Nick Sheldon.
 
Featured in this episode: 
Passports Please (12/02/2018)
You &amp; Yours (28/06/2017)
Woman's Hour (07/04/2016)

"Now I’m a grown up… do I have to get married? Do I have to scrimp and save?? Do I have to host a dinner party??? GrownUpLand poses the most frustrating questions. Luckily, Sophie Duker, Heidi Regan and Ned Sedgwick are here to guide you through the bewildering pursuit of adulthood.
 
Through stupid challenges, useful facts and personal stories of rich victory and miserable failure, your guides will ensure you don’t feel alone in your hopeless endeavour to be a legit grown up. Plus, every week a special guest candidly shares their experiences, from failed dates and drunken mistakes to moments of clarity and pet hates. And the very handsome Steve Ali, a refugee from Syria now a writer and silversmith in the UK, helps to put a listener’s dilemma into perspective.
 
Co-created by Deborah Frances-White for The Spontaneity Shop and BBC Radio 4.
 
Produced by Al Riddell."