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Podcast: Travel Writing Podcast
Episode: James Briggs Followed David Bowie from Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads - And Lived to Publish the Tale
Description: "See the mice in their million hordes," Bowie sings, "From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads."
For most, these lines, from Bowie's culture-bending 1971 track "Life on Mars?" are intriguing, amusing, or perhaps just baffling in Bowie's inimitable yet irresistible way. Yet for James Briggs, they were a route map. He set out to make real the journey Bowie merely obliquely sketched, cycling for over 100 days from the Spanish island of Ibiza to the English network of rivers and lakes known as the Norfolk Broads. Along the way, he meets Bowie fans of all ages and explores the many and varied cultural...