Graham Spaid

Spaid once slept in a cemetery in Greece (it seemed like the safest place to spend the night outside). He was forced off a bus in India by window-smashing rioters. He's been robbed, and mistaken for a thief, a priest, a concert pianist, Woody and ony Blair. He was examined by a dentist called Dr Fang. The rest isn't silence...

BBC Radio broadcast a separate, humorous story set in South India. Two longer works of fiction, tireless: and Sex on every Paige, also reflect his experiences in different countries and jobs.

Spaid was born in Australia, moving to the UK to study at Oxford, where he did a degree in English. He has travelled in over thirty countries, working as a language tutor in Greece, Italy and Taiwan, as well as a teacher in India, Australia and the UK, where he now lives with his wife.