Gone To Timbuktu

Hosted by Sophy Roberts · Sophy Roberts

5.0from 94 ratings

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38Podcast AuthorityScore out of 100 · How it is scored

36
Episodes: 94
Ratings: Daily
Cadence: 2023
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About Gone To Timbuktu

'Gone To Timbuktu', hosted by the bestselling author and journalist Sophy Roberts, explores the art of travel with writers, poets, photographers and filmmakers. Conversations range from physical journeys to inner landscapes, creative influences and new ideas.

Publisher: Sophy Roberts
Category: arts · society & culture
Language: en
Explicit: No
First episode: 5 Jan 2023
Latest episode: 24 Apr 2026

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36 episodes in the feed.

24 Apr 2026
Series 3 Ep 12: Tom Parker
A masterclass on photography, in this funny, intimate conversation about therapists, the role of luck, Marxist newspapers, and sleeping on the ledge of a bubbling lava lake in the DRC. With multi awardwinning photographer, Tom Parker.
27 Mar 2026
Series 3 Ep 11: George Butler
The acclaimed British artist George Butler draws in situ with pen, ink and watercolour, his travels taking him to Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine and more. His reportage illustration is the 'art of travel' at its most urgent — with this conversation zeroing in on the big question: can art make a difference?
6 Mar 2026
Series 3 Ep 10: Judith Scheele
An extraordinary desert traveller and social anthropologist bursts all the cliches as she takes us on a journey into the heart of the Sahara to reveal its complex human history. Instead of an imagined city of gold, Judith Scheele reveals something of the real Timbuktu, unpicking the myths and the romance in a discussion based on two decades of field research in Mali, Southern Algeria and Northern Chad.

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Caroline Eden
Damian Le Bas
Kapka Kassabova
Philip Marsden
Robert Macfarlane

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Apple Podcasts (US): 5.0 / 5; 27 ratings
Spotify: 5.0 / 5; 67 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 38 / 100

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Quality: 55
Social presence: 0
YouTube: 0
Engagement: 51

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Series 3 Ep 12: Tom Parker

Series 3 Ep 11: George Butler

Series 3 Ep 10: Judith Scheele

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Podcast Authority Score: 38 / 100

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