Presenter Dr. Keon West and producer Philippa Geering cast off their clothes in the pursuit of wellbeing in this programme which takes them from Scotland to Senegal via Germany, India and the rather chilly south of England. Keon revels in the pleasures of stripping off in public places. Philippa is not quite so sure. By…
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I first contacted the organiser of the Bengali naturist group in July last year, and a mere fifteen months later we met him in Sealdah train station in Kolkata ready to record for The Benefits of Nakedness, my BBC World Service series presented by Dr Keon West. This somewhat long gestation gained us one of…
Once again, I’m recording material for a BBC World Service series about naturism, presented by Dr Keon West and this time we’re in Germany. On the face of it, this particular location didn’t sound like much of a challenge – it’s an easy-going liberal country, pretty famous for its acceptance of nakedness. In fact, one…
It isn’t often that you find yourself, in my experience at least, in Francophone sub-Saharan Africa, drinking tea, naked. Even more strange, this was Senegal – a country with a pronounced (if not proud) sense of modesty. It is a predominantly Muslim country and, although you do often see women in beautifully tailored, figure-hugging traditional…
So naked swimming is fun. This is my newsflash. Well before the Brighton World Naked Bike Ride, I had arranged to record at a naturist swimming group in Haddington, on the outskirts of Edinburgh and the timing was hard on the heels of the bike ride. I think this was probably for the best –…
The body is a palimpsest of the events of life. As I lay in bed, wakeful, the night before the Brighton World Naked Bike Ride, I mused on the story my body told. The paleness of my skin was testament not just to my ethnicity, but also to my habit of covering it. My forearms…
