When Guy Grieve was asked to join a BBC team filming monkeys in Gabon, he leapt at the chance
January 2006
Gift of the Gabon
Gabon has an astonishing variety of wildlife - the only place in the world you can see gorillas, hippos surfing the waves and whales in the same day. And now it aims to become the Costa Rica of Africa. Melanie McGrath reports.
August 2002
Do you know the way to Sao Tome?
Julian Glover explores two little known islands off the coast of West Africa and discovers deserted beaches, dripping rainforests and extraordinary volcanic mountainsides.