Don't shoot my driver!
Join award winning TV foreign correspondent Vernon Mann on the road and listen to his crazy, scary, humorous, irreverent and sometimes sad stories from conflicts around the world in the days before mobile ‘phones and satellite communications. He’ll take you behind the media scenes during the Lebanese wars, the revolutions in Iran and Romania, troubles in Afghanistan and Belfast, unrest in China plus tantalising tales of his travels with the British Royal Family. You can contact him at [email protected]
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 15 minutes
- Episodes
- 25
- Years Active
- 2022
Ep.6 - Lebanon - We shoot up a curious coaster on the high seas.
A nighttime voyage from Beirut with the Christian Phalange leader Bashir Jamayel. We escape Syrian snipers and shoot out the lights of a curious coaster on the high seas and return with fresh soldier…
Ep.3 - Lebanon - A champagne flight to the Civil War.
A fizzy flight to the Civil War. Champagne all the way to Beirut in a near empty plane and landing at an airport under attack. Will we escape the aircraft before it’s hit by a shell?
Ep.4 - Lebanon - Please don’t shoot our driver!
Please don’t shoot our driver! We track Israeli troops as they withdraw from Southern Lebanon. The PLO help us out of a rut. Our driver comes close to death at the hands of Christian militiamen.
Ep.2 - Time Wasters - Terrific tales from Chile, East Berlin, Geneva and France
Terrific tales from Chile, East Berlin, Switzerland, France and Syria of assignments that didn’t work out and probably never would have! Anyone seen Michael Jackson? Or Elizabeth Taylor?
Ep.1 - Introduction - The news room laid bare
Booze and news, a match made in heaven? Find out what makes a newsroom tick, why reporters happily go off to war. A revealing look at what goes on behind the stories you watch on the news.