The Kidnap Diaries
Episodes – 1 x 60 mins
TX BBC Four – Thursday 26th April 2012, 9pm
Written & Directed by – Norman Hull
Executive Producer – Magnus Temple
Produced by – Flavia Taylor
A dramatised account of film-maker Sean Langan's kidnapping in 2008 while on a quest to become the first western journalist to film the Taliban training camps. In a bizarre meeting of East and West, the self-confessed adrenaline junkie strikes up an unlikely friendship with the deeply Islamic family holding him captive.
As his captors become his hosts, he begins to question his own motives and discovers a common humanity across the vast cultural divide.