The Flying Scientist: Recent Episodes
Steve Knight
Steve Knight has been exporting scientific equipment for 35 years in more than 65 countries. He regales you with tales of exotic locations, interesting people, surreal experiences and lots and lots of planes, trains and automobiles around the World in this series of short episodic podcasts.
Steve, Dave & Andy have the unenviable task of driving from Cambridge to Munich, Bergamo, Barcelona and Paris in a week to do some training. But it's Dave's strong Scottish accent that causes the real problem!
With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Steve & Gus decide to revisit their old haunts in Berlin to see what's changed before heading for Czechoslovakia...
Steve's first impressions of Singapore including an eclectic mix of old aircraft on Sentosa and the delights of Hawkers street food.
Steve joins Philips Scientific and is packed off to Eindhoven and then Gothenburg, but an unexpected bill arrives!
Staying with Indonesia for this bonus Episode, Ken gets a big bill and with Steve learns how to pick tea!
Now with spare time on his hands, Steve goes exploring central Java by taxi, has a minor religious experience, discovers some rusty steam trains and fights off a swarm of Asian Cockroaches - all on $17 a day!
Steve is promoted to Product Specialist and sent to do Regional Training for South East Asia in Indonesia - his first visit to the Far East. He ends up in a hotel once shared by Zhou Enlai, Sukarno and Nasser during the 1955 Asia-Africa Conference.
Steve starts his career in scientific sales and gets an unexpected call - can he go to Finland tomorrow?