Redmond O’Hanlon - ’Into The Heart of Borneo’ with James Fenton (20/86)

To listen to more of Redmond O’Hanlon’s stories, go to the playlist: British author Redmond O’Hanlon writes about his journeys into some of the wildest places in the world. His travels have taken him into the jungles of the Congo and the Amazon, he has faced some of the toughest tribes alive today, and has sailed in the hurricane season on a trawler in the North Atlantic. In all of this, he explores the extremes of human existence with passion, wit and erudition. [Listener: Christopher Sykes] TRANSCRIPT: [CS] You could have been an academic at Oxford? Yes, well, shall I tell you straight? I was a junior don, an apprentice, after my doctorate in Hartford, teaching. And I taught my students the wrong century. I hadn’t opened the letter. Who would have thought that Oxford would move up from 1945, or rather 1900 to 1945? Anyway, I was teaching the 19th century, when it should have been the 20th, the early