Kassia St Clair
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380 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 9 Aug
Kassia St Clair’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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There's the Borghese Gardens in Rome, and that used to be kind of the grounds of the family house.
And he proposes he wants to go in kind of an Italian vehicle with all Italian sort of tyres and all the rest of it.
So again, it's kind of an
national pride thing.
It's a motley quick you know, it's misfits.
Um no.
So you get kind of editorials
In, you know, English language Chinese newspapers who are paying attention to this kind of thing, and they see it not very positively at all, like the South China Morning Post is very, very dismissive of it and calls it ridiculous.
But also you have people on the ground who are very familiar with the beginning part of the route, which is very steep um and very, very narrow.
And they say this is completely ridiculous.
They won't make it.
they'll barely make it out of the city gates and then immediately they'll find that the ground is just is is barely conducive to donkey, let alone a car.
So from Beijing
through to Mongolia, through to the kind of the the main, the last town before they kind of enter the Gobi Desert.
There are basically pack trails that would have accommodated donkeys and camels and sedan chairs, which is, you know, basically a couple of people holding up a person who's sitting in a wooden box, essentially, but not really roads as we would think of them.
Across the Gobi Desert, there's tracks that caravans would follow.
It's just
Kind of paths between sources of water, paths between telegraph stations, but not really roads.
And then when you go into Russia, they expect to find roads.
There is a road network.
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