banatyne takes on big tobacco

iraq's lost generation

afghanistan: lifting the veil

undercover mother

afghanistan unveiled

charles: the meddling prince

undercover mosque

monkeys, rats and me: animal testing

burma's secret war

britain's rubbish

undercover in the secret state

gypsy wars

re-opening the post

undercover with new labour

my friend the mercenary

touts on tour

profiting from kids in care

third class post

the best for my child

islam unveiled

iran undercover

the child sex trade

blood and revenge

truth and lies in baghdad

lifting the veil: zarmina's story

secrets of the saudi state

down the tube

unholy war

beneath the veil

looking for ricky

party crashers

bloody foreigners

children of the secret state

prime suspects & witness to murder

Film maker James Brabazon should be locked up in a Zimbabwe prison - and if he hadn't had to go to a family funeral, that's where he would be right now. Because James had been chosen to be the official film maker of the disastrous attempted coup in Equatorial Guinea. James was invited into the adventure by his old friend and bodyguard Nick du Toit, who introduced him to old Etonian Simon Mann. Nick invited James to a top secret rendezvous in a village near Paris to meet Simon and cut him in on the deal. Then James' granddad died, and he was out of the loop the week the coup kicked off.
As his friend faces thirty four years in the worst jail in Africa, and Simon Mann languishes in prison in Zimbabwe, James travels to some of the most dangerous places in Africa to find out why the coup went so disastrously wrong, why Nick got involved in the first place, and who was really behind it.