The Travel Writing Podcast by Intrepid Times is the go-to podcast for wanderers, writers, and passionate travelers. Every other Friday, we share new episodes that include everything from in-depth interviews with renowned travel writers, conversations centered on sharing tips and tricks for your own travel writing, and behind-the-scenes insight into our most popular travel stories. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode!
Why do Maltese Christians speak a language descended from Arabic? Why were some of medieval Spain’s Muslim rulers red-haired and blue-eyed? And how did Viking-descended Christians in Sicily become thoroughly Arabised?
By looking at Europe through an Islamic lens, travel writer Tharik Hussain uncovers a whole world of history that other travellers might just brush past. Tharik is the author of Minarets in the Mountains and Muslim Europe: A Journey in Search of a Fourteen Hundred Year History, and has written for outlets including BBC Travel, National Geographic Traveller, Lonely Planet and Geographical.
2 Oct 2026
How Peter Naldrett Keeps Writing Popular Travel Books (Like 'Spooky Britain')
Across 24 books (and counting), Peter Naldrett has explored Britain’s coast, its islands, underground worlds, film locations, cities and stranger corners. His latest book, Spooky Britain, takes readers to 100 of the UK’s most eerie and mysterious places.
On the Travel Writing Podcast, Peter discusses his career as an author, why books have become his preferred way to make a living as a writer, his journey from starting out to being repeatedly commissioned by major publishers including Conway (Bloomsbury), and how he balances writing and travel with family life and fatherhood.
Learn more about Peter at peter-naldrett.co.uk.
Find Spooky Britain:https://www.amazon.co.uk/Spooky-Britain-Eerie-Mysterious-Places/dp/1844867609
25 Sept 2026
What Travel PRs Really Want From Writers With Brianne Miers
Behind the travel coverage you see in most major publications is an intense and complicated web of publicists, PR firms, tour companies and press trips that help make it all happen. With AI now in the mix, and the content ecosystem being disrupted more than at any point since the advent of the internet, what opportunities still exist for travel writers? And how can human content creators stand out, stay relevant, and get hired?
Brianne Miers is a leading travel public relations strategist and successful travel blogger who knows how things really work behind the scenes. In this forthright conversation, she explains what travel PRs really want from writers, and what travel writers need to know (and do!) to keep getting opportunities.
Follow Brianne's travels at https://www.atravelinglife.com/
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