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'I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself king of infinite space...' What is the underlying motivation of explorers? Is the urge to journey an ineradicable reflex, and what happens to this urge on a comprehensively discovered planet? Benedict Allen, explorer of, amongst other places, the remote rainforest between the Orinoco and Amazon, and editor of the recently published Faber Book of Exploration; Dr Mark Lithgoe, a Neurophysiologist at the Great Ormond Street Hospital currently working in the area of human perception during sensory depravation; and writer John McCarthy, who knows more than most about the mind's ability to travel in a darkened room, discuss the importance of elsewhere.