Personal Landscapes

Ryan Murdock

Ryan Murdock talks with the world’s most original writers, publishers and travelers to get the story behind great books about place. Read more

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Episodes

Foster Hirsch on film noir and 1950s Hollywood

09/30/2025 01:18:52Peter Carpenter: Walking in the Footsteps of David Bowie

09/16/2025 01:24:25 Justin Marozzi: Slavery in the Islamic World

09/02/2025 01:03:38Europe By Rail with Nicky Gardner

07/15/2025 01:11:20Louis D. Hall on riding to the end of the land

06/24/2025 01:02:34 Show all episodes

Our take on Personal Landscapes podcast

Personal Landscapes is an excellent travel podcast by Ryan Murdock. He is an author, an avid reader, a traveller and a member of the Royal Geographical Society. He has a great passion for travel literature, and his pursuit of writing it has led him to many different places on the planet. He has travelled to 74 countries in over 20 years, including some of the world's most marginal areas. Some of the harshest places he has visited include North Korea, Tibet, Mongolia, and Chad, where he travelled on a dugout canoe, Russian Jeep, horse, motorcycle, camel, and foot. In Personal Landscapes, he reviews traveling books and talks to original writers, publishers, and travellers worldwide to get the stories behind their great works.