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Our second 2012 adventure, traveling to incredible ports of call in Spain, Portugal, and Morocco, allows passengers exclusive access to some of the country’s most enthralling people – those with their fingers on the pulse of politics, history, current events, finance, and the arts.

Examine the fascinating 2012 electoral race, celebrate the brightest stars of Hollywood and discuss today’s most pressing social issues with special guests including...

• Robert Siegel, Award-winning Senior Host of NPR's evening newsmagazine All Things Considered;
• David Fanning, Executive Producer and Founder of PBS' FRONTLINE, America's longest running investigative documentary series on television;
• Charlie Cook, One of Washington's top political authorities, Publisher of The Cook Political Report and political analyst for the National Journal Group;
• Michael Childers, Acclaimed photographer of over 200 magazine covers including GQ, Esquire, and Vogue.

	Charlie Cook, one of Washington’s top political authorities, is the Publisher of The Cook Political Report and political analyst for the National Journal Group, where he writes weekly for National Journal and CongressDailyAM. He also writes a regular column for the Washington Quarterly, published by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and is a political analyst for NBC News. The New York Times has labeled him "one of the best political handicappers in the nation” while The Wall Street Journal called Cook "the Picasso of election analysis."
	Acclaimed photographer Michael Childers has photographed over 200 magazine covers including GQ, Esquire, Life, and both English and Italian Vogue. He remains the only American invited to photograph productions at the National Theater in London, UK and has worked as a special photographer on dozens of films including Grease, Marathon Man, Coal Miner’s Daughter, The Terminator, and Oceans 12. Childers was a founding photographer at Andy Warhol’s Interview and After Dark magazines and, in 2003, the Palm Springs Desert Museum presented a 40-year retrospective of Michael’s work titled “Icons and Legends.” He has received lifetime achievement honors from both the Temecula and Provincetown Film Festivals and, in 2008, Childers was awarded a star of the Palm Springs Walk of Fame for his work in photography, movies, and humanitarian causes. In 2011, “Famous Faces on Film” premiered at the Carmel Film Festival followed by the “Author, Author” exhibit – featuring portraits of 50 famous American authors – at the San Francisco Public Library. In March 2012, “Icons and Legends” debuted at the San Luis Obispo Museum. Childer’s work is in many museums and galleries throughout America and England.
	Robert Siegel is Senior Host of NPR's award-winning evening newsmagazine All Things Considered. With 40 years of experience working in radio news, Siegel is still at it hosting the country's most-listened-to, afternoon-drive-time news radio program and reporting on stories and happenings all over the globe. In 2010, Siegel was recognized by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism with the John Chancellor Award. Siegel has been honored with three Silver Batons from Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University, a 1997 American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Award for the two-part documentary, "Murder, Punishment, and Parole in Alabama" and the National Mental Health Association's 1991 Mental Health Award for his interviews conducted on the streets of New York in an All Things Considered story, "The Mentally Ill Homeless."
	David Fanning is the executive producer and founder of FRONTLINE, America's longest-running investigative documentary series on television, which premiered on PBS in January 1983.  The series has won all of the major awards for broadcast journalism: including 39 Emmys, including a special Emmy award for excellence in documentary filmmaking (2007), 24 duPont-Columbia University Awards, 13 Peabody Awards, 11 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards and one Edward R. Murrow Award.  Reviewers and critics have been lavish in their praise, calling it "the most consistently important weekly hour on television" (Cleveland Plain Dealer) and "one of the most distinguished in television history" (The Philadelphia Inquirer). Fanning began his journalistic career in his native South Africa as a reporter for a local newspaper and national magazine.  His first films were made in South Africa in 1970 and dealt with race and religion in his troubled homeland.  After a brief stint at the BBC, he came to the United States and started his career in public television in 1973.

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