Alex Bescoby

As the world races for critical minerals, a new trade route is transforming Central Africa. Lobito-Bound: A journey to Africa’s new frontier follows explorer Dwayne Fields - in partnership with pan-African mobile provider Africell - from the Indian Ocean to the Atlantic along the Lobito Corridor, tracing the impact of global power struggles on local lives. Through voices on the ground, the film explores whether the Lobito Corridor will bring real progress or simply shift the balance of control.

Eighty-seven-year-old adventurer Tim Slessor sets out to recreate his own 1955 record-breaking drive from London to Singapore - in the same badly behaved old Land Rover. What could possibly go wrong?

In 1885 the British army invaded Burma and deposed its King. He died in exile, ending a thousand years of monarchy. The royal family vanished, and the country was plunged into war and the longest military dictatorship of modern times. But after a century of silence they are back, and they're on a journey to bring the family - past and present - back together. Filmed through three years of seismic change in Burma, this is the story of a family and a country emerging from the darkness.