Rough Guides
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Rough Guides Ltd is a large travel guidebook and reference publisher, owned by Pearson PLC. Their travel titles cover more than 200 destinations, and are distributed worldwide through the Penguin Group.
The series began with the 1982 Rough Guide to Greece, a book conceived by Mark Ellingham, who was dissatisfied with the polarisation of existing guidebooks between cost-obsessed student guides and "heavyweight cultural tomes".
Most of the early titles were written or edited by John Fisher, Jack Holland and Martin Dunford, who along with Mark Ellingham were co-founders and owners of Rough Guide series. In 1995, they negotiated the sale of the series to Penguin Books.
The initial focus on travel has broadened to a coverage of music (contemporary, international and classical) and a varied general reference list on topics such as Association Football, cult books and movies, ethical shopping, Shakespeare, pregnancy and birth, and the Internet.
The travel and music print material is also provided online.
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[edit] Rough Guides on DEF II
In the late 1980s, the Rough Guides brand was 'spun-off' into a series of successful travel shows on BBC 2. Initially part of Janet Street Porter's DEF II strand, alongside Rapido and Jovanotti's Gimme 5, the show outlasted the 'yoof-tv' strand and became established in BBC 2's early 1990s evening schedule. Later editions of the show, usually hosted by Sigue Sigue Sputnik associate Magenta Devine (with various male co-presenters through the show's run), were repeated on the Sky Travel channel in 2005.
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- The theme music was by Australian band Big Pig.
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