Travel in the Footsteps of Captain Bligh, Rebecca West & 'The Italian Job' [18min @9:00]

Many travellers choose to follow in the footsteps of someone who has made the journey previously; Sandi Toksvig hears of three very different approaches to this method of travel. In 1989 Jasper Shackleton set off to journey in an open boat halfway across the Pacific to follow the route of Captain Bligh cast adrift by the Bounty mutineers. Author Tony White has been re-treading the path of Rebecca West's travels in the Balkans on the eve of the Second World War and writer Mark Mason went to Turin to place himself in the very spots where the minis raced round in the film The Italian Job.