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African explorer on TV tonight
Tonight on BBC4 @ 10pm, could be good maybe?


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I'm enjoying it - he didn't half take some risks though!
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did he ever!

great watching
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If my memory is correct, Matt Van Dyke (who is the subject of the documentary) used to post on the HUBB about seven or eight years ago when he first did a motorcycle trip around North Africa. I searched for some old posts to attempt to confirm this but wasn't able to find any.

It is certainly an interesting story.
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And typically... it clashed on SKY+, so I'll have to watch it on iplayer
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I'm enjoying it - he didn't half take some risks though!
His travel insurance would cover most of it.

Risk: it's a funny old 4 letter word.
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Thanks for the heads up on this. Will watch it on IPlayer tonight.
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Thanks for the heads up on this. Will watch it on IPlayer tonight.
Not an African Explorer as the thread title suggests. Virtually nothing to do with motorcycles. A waste of 45 minutes of my life (I gave up before the end). Sh!te all round. Hope the BBC didn't pay much of my license fee for this diatribe.
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Strange film.

Admirable though his intentions were, these seem more like a narcissistic "mummies packing me off on an adventure holiday" video diary of a rich boy who even when he tried to shoot someone, missed. Interesting in a kind of voyeuristic way although spending nearly six months in a hole in the ground couldn't have been much fun. He did seem to breeze in and out of it all without it making to much of a dent in his strangely vacuous personality so perhaps when he's had a chance to reflect on it all, it'll make sense to him (and me).
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