Director/Photography: Sean McAllister
Editor: Oliver Huddleston
Producers: Ben Barker, Stephan Lambert
Production: BBC
Distribution: BBC Worldwide Limited
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First Broadcast: 11.11.98, 21.00 BBC 2
Baghdad, in the days of the crisis about UN weapons inspectors. Hundreds of foreign correspondents are in town waiting for the war to begin and each and every one of them gets a "Minder" from the Iraqi Information Ministry to stand by them, support them linguistically or culturally in their work and – who would think it? – keep them away from those "no-go areas". BBC author Sean McAllister is hot on the heels of two such Minders. As it turns out, one of them is pretty nice guy, a football fan actually. The other loves women and ice cream. Television straight from the lion's den, impressive images from the world beyond news coverage itself.