This week on The Rough Guide to Everywhere, host Rebecca Hallett (instagram.com/becca.hallett) takes a journey into her own genes, and asks whether it’s worth the trip. As at-home DNA tests get increasingly popular, some people are starting to travel based on their ancestry results. Is this an innovative new way to plan a trip, adding depth and connection to your travels? Or is it just another fad?

Thanks to co-host Neil McQuillian, producer Alannah Chance of Reduced Listening (reducedlistening.co.uk), and assistant producer Femi Oriogun-Williams. Thanks also to 23andme (23andme.com) for providing Becca’s DNA test, and to all our interviewees. Episode photo by Rebecca Hallett.

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A home for all the untold travel stories. In The Rough Guide to Everywhere we chat to people from around the world with inspiring travel tales to tell, and get the odd dispatch from Rough Guides writers on the road. The series is hosted by Rough Guides editor Aimee White (Twitter: @aimeefw). Use #roughguidespod to spread the word on Twitter. As featured on the BBC.