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Radio Scotland,5 mins

Backpackers Anonymous - Episode Two

The Janice Forsyth Show

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Keiron Nicholson is a 28-year-old comedian from Glasgow. As an irritatingly earnest young man with too much facial hair, everyone assumed Keiron had been backpacking already. Actually he'd always wanted to, but had been too busy making sarcastic comments about the people that had. In this episode he discovers the different types of backpackers – the good, and the downright awful. He phones his mum and recounts a trip to a war memorial in Cambodia, where he discovered the inane wisdom other backpackers have left as graffiti on the memorial. He is filled with righteous anger, the righteousness of which he totally fails to convey to his mother...

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