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He’s back! Budleigh Salterton’s most famous citizen is off round the world on another six adventures. Meet Giles Wemmbley Hogg. 2m’s, 2g’s. Traveller, backpacker, ethnologist, fearless investigator of cultural diversity, and upper middle-class student ponce from Budleigh Salterton. And this time, Giles is travelling in the Summer Vac — yes, he’s become a student. Giles is now doing Canadian Studies at the University of Bristol… and Durham, due to a bit of a slip-up with his UCAS form. It’s not the fact that he has to be in two places at once he minds, it’s just that he spends most of time at Birmingham New Street station trying to rush between lectures. And this is a changed Giles — as he says, “Doing Canadian Studies at Uni has made me realize how naïve I used to be about other cultures and people. I feel I've really moved on. Ooh, is that a camel?” Each week, with his trusty portable DAT and his Charterhouse rugby shirt, Giles travels to far-off foreign lands, and records his adventures for the benefit of the Radio 4 listener. And each week, he makes a thumping great prat of himself …