And in my Suitcase
Caroline Casey presents nine-part travel series in which an invited guest is taken on a trip via the imagination to a destination of their choice.
Each episode also features a second guest, who reveals some of their own personal insights about the place under discussion.
What inspires people to travel to a particular country? How does one person’s idea of a place compare with someone else’s experience of it?
This week: Russia
Writer Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, who has long been an admirer of the works of Chekhov and Tolstoy, has a desire to travel around Russia. She is interested in both the well-known tourist destinations along with some more obscure places that have been used as locations in Russian literature. Also on the programme, poet Anatoly Kudryavitsky talks about his early life in Moscow and describes some of the best places to visit in his homeland.
RTÉ Radio 1 Extra Saturday 6 July 2013 at 9am