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Travel writer Laurie McAndish King reads her account of a hike in Botswana lion country - no weapons allowed. Laurie edits the Travel Writers' News website. Her stories have been published by Travelers Tales.
Botswana
Music that accompanied the FM broadcast:
Tribal Songs of Botswana;
Ladysmith Black Mambazo Live at Montreux;
Wimoweh (the Lion Sleeps Tonight/Mbube);
 
- 1961 US hit version by The Tokens
- 1939 African hit version, in Zulu, by Solomon Linda
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