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One innocent and two potentially deadly travel encounters

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Tom Wilmer
Women in alley, Fez, Morocco

Over the course of the past 35 years traveling around the world on assignments, correspondent Tom Wilmer recalls three of his most memorable encounters. A bad day in a Rabat, Morocco souk.

Graffiti in Nationalist/Catholic neighborhood Belfast, Northern Ireland 1998
Graffiti in Nationalist/Catholic neighborhood Belfast, Northern Ireland 1998
Graffiti in Nationalist/Catholic neighborhood Belfast, Northern Ireland 1998

A friendship with a Northern Ireland policeman that turned potentially deadly; and a naive encounter on the Finnish Frontier border with Russia.

Finnish Frontier outpost along border with Russia
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Finnish Frontier outpost along border with Russia

Funding for Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer provided by the Foundation at Hearst Castle

Funding for Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer provided by the Foundation at Hearst Castle
Foundation at Hearst Castle
Funding for Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer provided by the Foundation at Hearst Castle

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Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer is featured on the NPR Podcast Directory and the NPR One app.
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Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer is featured on the NPR Podcast Directory and the NPR One app.

You are invited to subscribe to the six time Lowell Thomas Award-winning travel podcast, Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer, featured on the NPR Podcast DirectoryApple Podcast, the NPR One App & Stitcher.com and more than twenty other podcast hosting sites including iHeartRadio

Tom Wilmer produces on-air content for Issues & Ideas airing over KCBX and is producer and host of the six-time Lowell Thomas award-winning NPR podcast Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer. Recorded live on-location across America and around the world, the podcasts feature the arts, culture, music, nature, history, science, wine & spirits, brewpubs, and the culinary arts--everything from baseball to exploring South Pacific atolls to interviewing the real Santa Claus in the Arctic.