Mark Beaumont – Events, Media, Advisory, and Adventures

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I am in Ghana, West Africa, which is my 23rd destination since starting this amazing Commonwealth journey on October 9th.
My own website is pretty quiet with updates because everything is being shared across the BBC Queen’s Baton Relay website. The same goes for my social media, where you can follow @BBCMarkBeaumont, instead of my personal twitter....

You may now be aware of the small charity Orkidstudio, through my fundraising work with them. They are a brilliant, young and dedicated team of architects and volunteers, who travel the world, creating buildings that become the heart of communities.
James Mitchell and his team have just come back from Zambia, where they have spent the last 7 weeks completing the Mutende II project. I caught up with them in their penultimate week on a skype call which you can hear in full here. [ca_audio url_mp3...

The Queen’s Baton Relay – one of the great traditions of the Commonwealth Games – will for the first time be covered by the BBC across its entire journey in all 71 nations and territories of the Commonwealth.
Presented by adventurer and broadcaster Mark Beaumont, coverage will be provided across the baton’s epic global journey, on The One Show, BBC Breakfast, Radio 2 and Radio Scotland, along with BBC News outlets, and online....