In this series, journalist Simon Reeve travels to Central Asia to “meet the stans” – Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan.
His journey offers viewers a unique insight into the culture and politics of these countries.
In Kazakhstan, Reeve discovers a poorly secured former bio-weapons factory that houses a hundred plagues. He also discovered a shrinking sea that is now home to camel herders and the region’s best Beatles tribute band.
Kyrgyzstan is the only country in the world that hosts US and Russian military bases. There, Reeve meets members of a banned radical Islamic group and visits one of the most radioactive sites in the world.
In Uzbekistan’s most repressive “Stans,” Reeve is hunted by the secret police as he travels across the country.
Tajikistan shares an 800-mile border with Afghanistan, which supplies 90 percent of Europe’s heroin and is one of the world’s busiest drug trafficking routes.
