Postcards podcast: Clara Amfo – Ghana, London, Japan

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With global travel largely on pause, the world’s great adventurers are all at home. And travel journalist, Greg Dickinson has managed to get their phone numbers. Listen to our new podcast, Postcards to hear the travel stories you didn’t know you were missing.

 As listeners of her radio shows will know, Clara Amfo has an infectious passion for music – and a gift for uncovering the world’s most exciting new artists. So it probably shouldn’t come as a surprise that she brings the same energy to her travels.

In this final episode of this series of Postcards, she talks travel journalist, Greg Dickinson through a few of her most vivid travel memories, including a childhood trip to Ghana, a more recent one to Tokyo, and a taste of the Caribbean at the Notting Hill Carnival.

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