Andrew Benfield embarks on a mountain odyssey in his quest to get to the bottom of a mysterious legend. Could there be a hairy biped roaming the Himalayas?
This recording is from our annual Geographical journeys: microlectures event, where eight speakers had just 10 minutes each to share their geographical journeys in an illustrated talk.
The event was organised by the Society’s Younger Members' Committee.
Featured image: Anuj Adhikary
[In-person] The King George men are coming – in places they still remain: Britain’s Overseas Territories.
Alice Hunter Morrison, arabist, writer and TV presenter, talks with Jacki Hill-Murphy about her successful BBC series Morocco to Timbuktu: An Arabian Adventure.
Yulia Savchuk returns to her native Ukraine, chasing childhood memories and examining what the Soviet era could teach us about living with ‘invisible killers’.
This talk recounts how people of Punjabi descent worked with the Society's archive to explore the places associated with their ancestral heritage.
Wracked by war, famine and Islamic extremism, Somalia has long been a byword for disaster. James, a veteran reporter on Afghanistan, went to find out why – and what is being done to fix it.
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