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Armchair traveller: Books, TV and radio to keep wanderlust alive

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Here we pick a selection of the best travel-related programmes, books and radio shows that will provide some isolation inspiration for the week ahead.  ON THE PAGE… Beautiful Balkans  A masterpiece: The Church of St John at Kaneo, on Lake Ohrid in North Macedonia  Follow Kapka Kassabova’s ancestral quest in To The Lake  Brown bears … Read more

ROBERT HARDMAN: Prince Charles beamed in from his armchair to open Nightingale Hospital

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This will, surely, go down as one of the most memorable achievements in the history of the National Health Service.  It was certainly marked by one of the more memorable opening ceremonies in the long plaque-unveiling history of the House of Windsor. Thus it was that the Prince of Wales opened the 4,000-bed Nightingale Hospital … Read more