What was Bob doing in Africa in 2004?
In the run up to the Live8 concerts in 2005 Bob Geldof had been working on a television series Geldof in Africa and an accompanying book of the same title. “People had to know what they (Blair and Brown) were arguing for, so we went to the BBC and said; ‘Why not do a load of things from Africa’…The deal was that I do a series from there, too. I agreed, but I didn’t really want to. I don’t like doing telly – it’s a lot of work and exhaustion…but the idea was by doing stuff out of Africa we would inform people about this wondrous, fantastic place.”(3) Shot in 3 weeks in 2004, the documentary series spans the vast continent, following Geldof through West Africa (Ghana, Benin and Mali), Central Africa (DR Congo and Uganda) and East Africa (Ethiopia, Tanzania and Somalia). It was broadcast as part of the BBC Africa series in June 2005 and the DVD was released in November 2005. 3. http://www.mirror.co.uk/tvandfilm/theticket/interviews/tm_objectid= 16326850&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=h
