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Trans-African Hovercraft: Beyond Timbuctoo (Part 2) (4x17)

Air date: Jul 19, 1970

The hovercraft expedition has so far travelled 800 miles from the west coast of Africa to Bamako, capital of Mali. Tonight's programme, the second of three covering the progress of the hovercraft, follows the course of the expedition along the immense reaches of the Niger -the great river that divides the southern-most fringe of the Sahara Desert from the dark jungles of Africa. Written by John Pilger