Cooking in the Danger Zone (2006)

In Cameroon he discovers a rampant appetite for bushmeat that is causing ecological catastrophe, with great apes facing local extinction. He nearly causes a riot when he tries to film a bushmeat chef buying porcupine. Travelling to the forest, Stefan eats civet cat with hunters who are living in extreme poverty and rely on bushmeat. He also visits a sanctuary which is looking after 57 chimpanzees, who have been orphaned by hunters. Taking the train back to the capital, Yaounde, Stefan accompanies forest rangers searching for and confiscating smuggled bushmeat. And in Yaounde, he meets an entrepreneur called Paul who believes he may have found a solution to the bushmeat crisis. The animal is delicious, but it has an image problem. Its name: cane rat. Ethiopia On the eve of last year's Ethiopian millennium, Stefan investigates why the country still needs so much aid nearly 25 years after the 1984 famine. PROGRAMME TRANSCRIPT Read transcript [124KB] Most computers will ope

March 16, 2008, midnight

In Haiti Stefan visits the notoriously violent slums of Cite Soleil with Brazilian UN soldiers. He tries mud cakes made of pure clay, which are eaten for their high mineral content, and helps out with UN food handouts. Later on, he is invited to a voodoo ceremony, a practise which is widespread in Haiti. He then travels to the once-successful rice-growing region to discover what happened when the US persuaded Haiti to remove rice import taxes. The price of rice plummeted and local production collapsed, causing widespread poverty. Many local women now have to walk for hours up mountains carrying 25kg sacks of food aid. He also visits the luxury resort of Labadie which is out of bounds to everyone except wealthy cruise ship passengers. But despite the inequality, the income from tourism could be one of the few ways for Haiti to develop economically. Mexico In Mexico, Stefan discovers that free trade with the US means Mexico is importing corn and exporting people. Vast numbe

March 23, 2008, midnight

In Israel and the occupied West Bank, the conflict is rooted in land and expressed in food - or the lack of it. Stefan gets his first taste of tear gas when a protest against Israel's security barrier turns violent. The Israelis say it is essential to keep suicide bombers out, but it cuts some villagers off from a large proportion of their land, and it has been declared illegal in a ruling by the International Court of Justice. As the protesters storm the barrier, Israeli soldiers fire tear gas and rubber bullets at them. In the isolated, ultra-orthodox Jewish settlement of Itamar in the West Bank, 15 residents have been killed by armed Palestinians. Many are members of Gush Emunim, a settler movement which argues that there is a religious imperative for Jewish people to settle the West Bank. In the adjacent village of Yanoun, whose Arab residents are unable to harvest their olives after violence and armed intimidation from settlers. After visiting both villages, Stefan trave

March 30, 2008, midnight