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1. The Luminous Continent: See Africa like you have never seen it as Bob Geldof explores Africa’s battles against nature, geography and climate. Sir Geldof tracks the evolutionary trail of mankind from our 'Rift Valley' origins in the Laetoli Gorge in Tanzania, all the way to the point on the north-eastern coast of Africa where people first left to colonize the rest of the world. While traveling he travels through the Ngorongoro, the Serengeti, Masailand and he encounters a group of the last few hundred remaining Hadsa people who still live as man once did fifty thousand years ago.

2. Coco Slaves And Good: In this chapter, Bob travels with his driver Ossie along the West African coast in a beat up old Peugeot 504. During his journey through Ghana he visits an old British slave fort of Cape Coast. Here at a real life cocoa plantation in Bisiasi he is inducted as king and the Vatican City of Voodoo, Ouidha in Benin. Bob reflects on the horrors of the past and the current slavery to the crippling modern day trade restrictions that have been placed upon African countries.

3. Apocalypse Still: For this portion, Geldof journeys north up the river Congo on a UN patrol boat. Here he reflects on the political chaos that has ripped Africa apart. It brings about corruption and strangles hope. Bob visits the City of Kisangani. Not long ago this was a Hollywood retreat for stars like Catherine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart. Bob investigates the rumor that here is the place that AIDS began. This rumor has prevented people from trusting most modern cures for disease.

4. Perfect Zero: Bob visits an isolated settlement of sand covered buildings that are the town of Arouane. Leaving behind the emptiness and silence of the Sahara desert. Geldof travels 250 kilometers south to the legendry City of Timbuktu (the gate way to the desert) and reflects on traditional and modern ways of education. This often debated subject remains a key to Africa's success. Next he travels by river to port of Mopti and then he goes to the largest mud building in the world (a mosque located in Djenne). His journey is completed on the magnificent Bandiagara escarpment in Dogon country, Mali. It is here that he stumbles upon a modern day tribe of slaves that have been attempting to break free from their chains through higher learning.

5. Four Horsemen: Famine, War, Plague & Death are the four horsemen of the Apocalypse. The title of this section indicates that the Four Horsemen have been riding hard through the back roads of Africa. It is here in northern Uganda that Bob Geldof begins. There is very little heard about war going on and to Bob’s repulsion he learns of the slaughter and grotesque violence conducted by the Lord's Resistance Army towards children. As he moves across the border into Northern Kenya Bob Geldof visits Lokichoggio, the largest UN relief base in the world. He heads into one of the most treacherous places on the globe the Sudan; on a UN relief mission.

6. A Terrible Beauty: We end the program in Ethiopia. This is exactly the place that Bob's personal long march for justice began. On this the twentieth anniversary of Live Aid Geldof revisits the country that first prompted his and our resentment over the mass famine. It is here that we first heard of the dieing tens of thousands in Northern Ethiopia. Bob explores the “other” Ethiopia. The Ethiopia that is as diverse and as rich with its culture and people as is the histories of any in Europe. A fitting completion to this memorable series.


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