Listen to episode 323 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman:
- Look for music from the country
- Search on BBC Sounds (there’s a prog called World Music Road Trip and also sometimes stuff in From Our Own Correspondent)
- Also try documentaries, especially Storyville
- Find the best movie you’ve never seen from that country
- Internet search for recipes from there
- Look online for specialist ingredients
- Is there takeaway from there one could get?
- Can you do a few minutes of language learning via Duolingo etc? Just enough to say hello, goodbye, please and thank you?
- Who’s their most famous writer? Read a short story
- Have they ever had a movie up for best foreign picture Oscar, or best short or best documentary?
- Where would you stay? Pick a hotel. Have a look on Google Street View to see where you “are”
- Is there a board game (or video game!) from that country to try?
- What sights would you try to see if you were there? Can you find virtual tours online?
- What do people drink in a cafè or bar there?
- Can you learn to sing something that’s popular there or written there?
- Put the radio on all day from that country
- Change your Twitter/social media localisation to that country
- Is there a bath product/perfume/smell from there?
mssv 