013: Race Across the World with Natalie and Shameema
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BBC Two recently aired a travel show where five teams competed to travel overland from London to Singapore in the shortest time. Natalie and Shameema share their ups and downs, plus lessons learned along the way. In this episode, we discuss being stranded in The Caspian Sea for 5 days, coping with a lack of sleep, and Natalies challenges and anxieties about unwanted attention in certain countries because of the colour of her skin.
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