Taking the Flak

Taking the Flak

📺 Series 1 seasons GB
โ˜… 7.3 /10 2009

An acerbic, authentic and caustic comedy drama that covers the entire progress of a small African war, as seen through the eyes of a team of journalists sending back the nightly reports for the BBC News at Ten. Taking the Flak is a comedy drama about how journalists in war zones live in a state of perpetual danger not just from bombs but from disease, dysentery, bedbugs, bugged beds, their colleagues, their competitors and their loved ones, who are out of sight and out of mind. If they can't get themselves embedded with the army, they'll get embedded with each other. The team includes the smooth, veteran correspondent; the harassed, but infinitely resourceful, producer; and the green and gauche rookie stringer, dropped into a hotel and forced to choose between a room on 'the shooting side' and 'the mortar side'. Football-mad boy soldiers, corrupt car dealers, intestinal discomfort, unexploded landmines, old flames, impromptu hostage situations, YouTube viral videos and colossal egos all combust under the African sun. There is a story to be told in Karibu - but who will get to tell it?

Cast

Martin Jarvis
Martin Jarvis
David Bradburn
Doon Mackichan
Doon Mackichan
Jane Thomason
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Bruce Mackinnon
Harry Chambers
Joanna Brookes
Joanna Brookes
Margaret Hollis
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Lydia Gitachu
Grace Matiko
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Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
Joyful Sifuri
Harry Lloyd
Harry Lloyd
Alexander Taylor-Pierce
Lucy Chalkley
Lucy Chalkley
Samantha Cunningham-Fleming
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Sadat Mourad
Mkombe
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Sadat Mourad
Mkmobe
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Onyango Owino
Presidential Guard Officer
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Onyango Owino
Rally Man 3