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Mike Bullivant's diary about the challenge for the Shipwrecked programme, from the BBC/OU series Rough Science 5
It's a 9-hour flight from London Heathrow to Nairobi, where we (Jonathan, me, Kathy, the two cameramen Tony and Keith, and Rob and Simon, the sound recordists) finally touch down at 7am on the 9th July 2004. We have to wait 4 hours longer than expected for our connecting flight. There's a mechanical fault with the small propellor plane that we're booked on, and we end up having to take a scheduled Kenyan Airways jet flight instead. Two hours later we're on the small island of Zanzibar, our home for the next five weeks. We're met at the airport by the rest of the Production Team. They've already been out here for two weeks - setting things up - no mean feat given that it's Africa, where even the simplest task takes an age to accomplish. They're pleased to see us, and we to see them. At last we can all set to work on a project that's already been three months in the making. We're raring to go.
Zanzibar's a beautiful place, just off the coast of Tanzania in East Africa. It's six degrees south of the Equator, tropical, and hot. Zanzibar's known as the 'Spice Island', as its main exports are spices like cloves, cinnamon and turmeric. Astonishingly, Zanzibar produces over 90% of the World's clove oil. Despite the late-afternoon heat, and the tiredness that's a travelling companion on any long journey, I'm glad to be here.
Two days rest to get over the travelling, and the filming of Rough Science 5 will be on the road. Who would have thought on Capraia, the location of the very first series of Rough Science, that we'd be making a fifth here in Africa?
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Content last updated: 26/01/2005
