Here I’m filmed talking about 14 years on the road and the long strange trip it’s been to get thoroughly lost on several continents before ever finding the way back home.

1001 Arabian Nights are to the Middle East what Shakespeare is to the English-speaking world. Wild, imaginative, sensual stories that have influenced writers for centuries.

Hitching to India when I was 20 was like a rite of passage, hitting the road with just a loaf of bread, a sleeping bag, a clarinet and a toothbrush, determined to trust in Fate and make my way overland with the gods on my side.

I spend much of my life thinking about what my last words should be and for an epitaph that will make people laugh when they walk past my cheap gravestone.

Returning to England for the first time in years, I lived on the river in Cambridge for a couple of summers taking tourists for a ride in a traditional narrow boat. The history I made up as I went along.

I spent 3 months in the streets of Tokyo selling my soul along with silver rings, fake watches and useless trinkets to the gullible Japanese for the Israeli mafia.

[Excerpt from Tales of a Road Junky ] Goa in 1995 had already passed its heyday as the Mecca of…

I got my name by hitchhiking to India but the Tom Thumb stories go way back. Tom Thumb has been…

The Essential Rumi from Coleman Barks These are a few of my favourite stories from the luminous Sufi poet, Rumi,…

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3Q8FgfS9pw William Blake is a painter and poet that has inspired generations of artists over the last couple hundred years…

The Little Prince is a book that continues to touch millions across the world every year with its simplicity and depth, humour and elegance. I put together some of my favourite sentiments from the book into a song.

When I was younger I wanted to be a clown. I was honoured to be one of the last people Schmuel ever spoke to.

Although it was ancient wisdom that marriage was joy for a month and misery for a life, yet everyone agreed that Abu Hasan should marry. With a healthy personal fortune, a keen wit and a generous heart, he was quite the most eligible bachelor in Baghdad…

Stories from Lao tzu, Chuang Tzu and other Chinese mystics from thousands of years ago.

Once upon a time you had only to imagine a place to be sure that somewhere, somehow, it actually existed. One such place was the Wishing Well.

“Good day! I saw you from far away and I am starving to death!” “Good day! I was dead but…

Of all the stories of broken-hearted lovers, none was ever quite so tragic as the man who fell in love…

As an angry young man I traveled to the hills of Pakistan and, to my surprise, found a way to help change the world.

“You’re nothing but a hound dog!” is what you’re telling someone when you accuse them of being a cynic. Coming…

Norton is one of my greatest heroes, a man who made his dream come true for him and everyone else just by believing in it…