Don't shoot my driver!

About 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 vernonmannmedia@gmail.com

Publisher

Vernon Mann

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

30 Jan 2022

Latest episode

29 May 2022

Latest episodes

25 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   29 May 2022

   Ep.25 - Sweden’s PM cops it, channel hand glider blows it.

   Swedish PM is assassinated and the story dies quickly too. A hang glider fails to cross the channel but we party nevertheless until a British soldier is shot in Antwerp. My role in creating a crime free Saturday night in England.

2. 

   22 May 2022

   Ep.24 - Bosnia - West Country correspondent goes to war again.

   I am assigned from my caravan in Somerset to report on the Bosnian war. We drive through the snow in an armoured Land-rover and a Lada, commandeer an empty hotel for the night, and talk to starving Muslim refugees from Srebrenitsa weeks before 800 are massacred. Then the cameraman is fired for fiddling his expenses.

3. 

   15 May 2022

   Ep.23 - Rhodesia/Zimbabwe - Champagne with Churchill’s grandkids in the last days of white rule.

   We dine with the Governor, witness freedom fighters coming in from the bush to vote; almost win a pile at the races and tips on how to scare an accountant. I meet up with the new Boss Robert Mugabe.

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