Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle by the Irish travel writer Dervla Murphy was first published in 1965 and is the first of Dervla Murphy’s twenty-six books. It's a journal she kept on the 3,500 mile, six-month journey she made by bicycle from her home in Lismore, Ireland to Delhi in India in 1963, Ireland, traversing Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan on her trusty bike, Ros. Joining us to discuss the book are Felicity Cloake, food writer and the award-winning author of the Guardian’s long-running ‘How to Make the Perfect’ series and Caroline Eden, author and journalist, whose latest book, Red Sands is a reimagining of traditional travel writing using food as the jumping-off point to explore Central Asia.

This episode also features Andy reading from Craig Brown's new collected works, Haywire, while John has been enjoying In Search of One Last Song: Britain’s disappearing birds and the people trying to save them by Patrick Galbraith.

Books mentioned:
Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle; Wheels within Wheels; In Ethiopia with a Mule; A Place Apart: Northern Ireland in the 1970s by Dervla Murphy
One More Croissant for the Road; Red Sauce Brown Sauce by Felicity Cloake
Red Sands; Samarkand: Recipes and Stories From Central Asia and the Caucasus by Caroline Eden
Haywire by Craig Brown
In Search of One Last Song: Britain’s disappearing birds and the people trying to save them by Patrick Galbraith

Other links
Dervla Murphy’s Desert Island Discs
Who is Dervla Murphy? (2016 documentary)
Full Tilting - the Dervla Murphy fan site
Re-Tilt - Isabelle Masters 2015 retracing Dervla’s original journey today