Africa where the human race began nearly a billion people live here and it's a continent with an incredible diversity of communities and cultures yet we know less of its history than almost anywhere else on earth but that's beginning to change in the last few decades researchers and archeologists have begun to uncover a range of histories as impressive and extraordinary as anywhere else on earth it's a history which has been neglected for years and it's largely without written records but it is preserved for us in the gold and statues in the culture art and legends of the people my name is Gus Casely hayford over many years I've studied the history and culture of Africa as an art historian I'm used to drawing stories from new objects from the past I'm going to discover the history and find out what really happened to the lost kingdoms are back in 1871 a German geologist exploring southern Africa stumbled across these extraordinary ruins he was astonished by what he found a vast stone city stranded in the empty Savannah Great Zimbabwe he had no idea who was responsible for this astounding feat of architecture but he was sure of one thing it was too sophisticated to have been built by Africans thankfully these assumptions have been discredited today but only now we piecing together the fragments we know about this lost civilization and its connections to other kingdoms of pre-colonial southern Africa could Great Zimbabwe really have been an African Eldorado a city built on gold in this film by going in search of the story of one of the most mysterious cities and societies in Africa I don't think we can understand this kingdom without understanding the civilizations and kingdoms that grew up around it it was part of a rich and fascinating history largely unknown the history of wealth trade and gold my journey to find out about great zimbabwe would take me from the swahili closed in modern-day tanzania to Mozambique South Africa and hopefully to modern Zimbabwe itself where no BBC crew has been allowed to film for 8 years my first stop is right here at the edge of the continent where Africa needs the Indian Ocean you this is the ancient Swahili coast.
The centuries people have been drawn here from as far away as China India and the Middle East and they've been drawn here by trained trade in goods but particularly trade in gold for many years Western scholars paid little attention to the history of this coast they didn't think it fitted into the wider trade patterns of the ancient world to Arabia in the north and India in the east but recent research now suggests that this coast was central to an international trade in gold gold which originated in Great Zimbabwe 1500 kilometers inland and I think this ancient trade route may lead to a better understanding of what Great Zimbabwe actually represents in the untold history of this continent there's evidence to suggest the traders were already coming to this coast from far afield as long ago as the 1st century AD I've got my holiday reading with me which is what's a bit more than holiday reading it is the the periplus of the erythraean sea which is a first century guide to the indian ocean it talks about all the sorts of wonderful places that merchants and sailors could have traveled in that time to ply their trade and it talks about this place called raptor which is supposed to be the most southerly port in africa that you could then travel to the perilous is an ancient greek text which describes the ports and cities which dot this coast all the way up to Arabia according to the perilous raptor was the place where traders from India and Arabia came to buy ivory fine tortoiseshell and rhinoceros haul in return the people of raptor imported Spears daggers and glass but unfortunately the para plus is vague on the exact whereabouts of Raptor and the stories of this trading city have been dismissed as legend now however professor Felix charming of the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania thinks he might have found it are you feeling I've been reading my parent Phyllis in preparation for this well I know you're the man to show me around I mean the legendary Raptor I mean if you found it this is quite something so I'm expecting a lot felix charming is a world renowned archaeologist whose work has been instrumental in piecing together the ancient history of the Swahili coast if he has indeed found wrapped this will run as his greatest discovery yet it will also prove that this region is a vibrant part of the ancient world did you see crocodile seriously yeah what'd I say who you wanna be let me tell you listen so then voluntary it's just amazing Felix and I are on the rafita River which flows to the Indian Ocean from deep within the African interior you manage to do it and not get any mud on your shoes yeah laughs idols breath I told you Felix believes that Raptor once stood near the banks of this river but Felix's idea of near is a little different from mine it's also dangerous you can see there are snakes here snakes and when you're a fan of snakes Felix the kind of snakes all sorts pythons pythons pythons yes the perilous talks of Raptor is a great trading center a cosmopolitan metropolis where traders from all over the ancient world would meet and barter and try to make a quick buck but it's difficult to imagine such a vibrant place existing here in this Riverside wilderness with crocodiles and snakes I'm beginning to wonder if the charming Felix charming has made a mistake then one hour later in the dirt beneath our feet fragments of an ancient world emerge this is the beginning of what I call a raptor site and actually if you look down the pottery of 2,000 years probably has been brought down from the settlement and if you are gaining move and see the ground yes you can see the components in this one this is a piece of pottery for sure it is 2,000 years old once you get your eye in there anywhere yeah yeah and actually if you are able to clean this ground you'll see more concealer there's another fish there yes and when we go up I'll see you I'll show you more buried beneath the dirt and foliage of this isolated wilderness Phoenix thinks he's found something remarkable shards of pottery tantalizing evidence of an ancient settlement so somewhere under here here may well be the remains of a raptor exactly Felix thinks he's found raptured because of the age and variety of the pottery which lies hidden beneath the surface promise you that I'll show you some footage we are two thousand years a thousand has really cover 14 dating for this material is giving us a lift of 200 about 300 AD 280 is a common date here for this kind of pottery other is imported or they mainly a local deli a local is a happy found pottery that has come from beyond these shores beyond yes yes we have found good amount of ceramics which are brought from different parts of the world this pottery from pig was examined by a professor student and he confirmed this pottery is from the nile valley and select the texture with its incredibly fine and like there's nothing exactly you can even see the color with the pinkish color no it feels like we're in the middle of nowhere but the evidence from the pottery it's age it's varied provenance and the sheer amount of shards suggests that Felix might be right but in this empty place a trading centre once thrived playing host to merchants from as far afield as ancient Egypt and India evidence that from the earliest of times this part of Africa had established trade routes with the wider world talking to Felix and he's opened up a whole raft of possibilities of where to explore next but more than anything it's this idea that this was the hub of a whole network of ports that ran down this bit of the coast according to the perilous Raptor traded in goods from the African interior buy ivory at my nostrils horn but there's no sign yet of the trade in gold which I'm looking for but as I head back into town the next morning toward the markets that bustle here today I could hear the evidence of a legacy of trade exchange and contact with a world beyond this coast in the language that people speak Swahili is an African language but one which has incorporated many words from around the world like a linguistic melting pot the word Swahili itself actually comes from the Arabic word for coast and there are traces of Indian and even Portuguese - in fact Portuguese traders first pass through here in 1498 and described a spectacularly wealthy city on an island just off the coast and that's where I'm headed next Portuguese produced it's absolutely beautiful maps and illustrations of this gorgeous place it just looks so deeply impressive and if the place lives up to this it's just going to be magnificent the city was Kilwa hisilani a city whose streets the Portuguese described as overflowing with gold and filled with Blackmore's the old European term for Africans colonial historians assume that Kilwa was an Arab outpost because of its Muslim heritage but now we think that Kilwa was African that these were black African Muslims an interpretation backed up by the observations of the famous Arab traveller Elam Battuta who came to kill one in 1331 he talks about pure war as one of the most beautiful cities and he talks about the local population as being a vain dark complexion and he describes their ethnic scarifications I mean this really was an African city and it was also a very profitable the reason I'm here is that a copper coin like this from 14th century kill one has been found at Great Zimbabwe 1500 kilometers inland evidence perhaps the great zimbabwe and kill one the two ends of what was a lucrative trade and goods those early Portuguese travellers described a city of fine coral built houses and the rulers hundred room palace full of gold silver and precious stones the site is still spectacular today among the ruins are the houses which would have accommodated the traveling foreign traders who regularly descended on Kilwa from across the ocean local guide F Marnie Abdullah has agreed to show me around so why particularly Kilwa why was it such an important post in terms of the trading network along the coast yeah was important because it was easier for the traders who used the best sailing boats to come here so it's like a barrier because when you come in you can anchor easily because these guys were traveling through with a monsoon wind the direction of the prevailing wind on the Swahili coast changes twice a year allowing ships to cross the Indian Ocean and return again within 12 months and that's why I kill WA was ideally placed to serve as East Africa's gateway to the trading networks of the ancient world that's me hi nice to meet you welcome to Kalwa thank ya British archaeologist Stephanie Wynne Jones of Bristol University is an expert on kill waz history and has studied how its fortunes of ebb dand flowed through.
The ages one of the things that's really been demonstrated through the archaeology is that there's been a settlement here since the at least the 9th century AD they were really integrated into the Indian Ocean system actually and there are a lot of imports brought to the site from mainly from the Persian Gulf area also from India and as sort of reaching this island at that date what was being traded through this port export that what sorts of goods well in general from the Swahili coast and the products of the African hinterland were being traded often in the form of raw materials kilwa was particularly famous for gold and the source of kill was wealth was and based on the gold trade from the south from the Zimbabwe plateau this was an island state made rich by gold these merchants knew the international value of the precious metal and bargained hard and as the gold flowed through Kilwa by the 14th century the city had become one of the most important and richest ports in Africa and if you look closely enough some of that wealth is still visible this is the great mosque of Kilwa the congregational mosque which would have served for the Friday prayer when the whole community would come together and one of the things that's quite wonderful about this particular structure and are the domes and vaults that you can see in the roof and this is a very particularly Kilwa phenomenon and to have this little quantity of values and all those sort of arches and columns that you see here and finding this incredible material I mean it this is Carl isn't it it is and I mean this is one of the this is the defining characteristic of Swahili architecture and we call these places stone towns and we've referred to stone houses but actually there's no natural particularly good natural sources of stone on the coast and instead this architectural style developed where they use the coral which is found in abundance here and the entire structure as adults have called the blocks like the one that you're looking at and were actually cut from the living coral and because it was soft they were able to use it for these carved features and then how would it have been finished and what would it look like if I came in well well the entire thing would have been plastered also with lime plaster and we totally also comes from coral so everything is from coral from start to finish and it would have appeared you know totally smooth and totally white and it would have been no beautiful thing to look at actually beautiful and technically sophisticated many of the great buildings of Europe were built around the same time the piazza del campo in siena the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris to my mind this is surely a match for kilwa was clearly a busy confident trading center a city-state that was intimately linked with the wider world economy but if Kiowas wealth came from the gold it traded across this vast ocean the source of this world the precious commodity which formed the basis of this trade is not found in kill one Africa's gold comes from deep inland from the high plateau of Zimbabwe 1500 kilometers away and now I'm going to try and trace this gold route to its source I'm traveling inland from the post heading west toward the ancient gold lands and somewhere out here I'm hoping to find an outpost of one of Africa's greatest kingdoms we know the great zimbabwe was at its zenith in the 13th and 14th centuries just when Kilwa ii was at its height but great zimbabwe is still two countries one visa application and many days travel away I'm looking for outpost of this gold trading kingdom here in Mozambique tantalizingly my guide tells me that there's a Zimbabwe type ruin just 70 kilometres inland from her this site mana Kelly is mentioned in the history books but I can't find it on any map football on their stone mannequin but these sandy roads are a bit of a challenge actually but I'm a bit more used to when to active in rush hour than this but you there's a welcome waiting for me led by local historian Vicente villain Kulas hello again and the villagers want to perform a small good luck ceremony for us we have a visitors here they want all things to go well so that no snakes no anyone can be beaten or something gone wrong thank you I particularly hate snakes so I think that's really great with you they you the chief's son offers beer to the ancestors on our behalf the ancestor have heard us and have welcomed us thank you very much thank you too with the blessings of his forebears the chant a and I set off for the ruins of mana Kenny and what was its relationship to the coast and also to Great Zimbabwe actually maneechan was in between the coast in the great disembowel people from the coast just to bring black things to trade here and this was a trading place actually man again means it's a band word that means the place where people can give to each other really yes that's what is the meaning of when again the existence of mana Kenny was barely known to scholars until the 1970s but when archeologists did come to dig it up they were rewarded with some clues about his past they found things leg gold things like copper wires things leggy a blades things like glass beads but this is a lost history in more ways than one the museum which house most of Manny Kenny's treasures was destroyed by fire but while the artifacts have gone the knowledge remains we know that gold was found in the graves of Manny Kenny's elders and that there are some startling links to Great Zimbabwe this grass here is typically from greatest lobby and Muslim it can be found just in this place yes so this graph this particular variety of yes this one is only found in monetary management and greatest mob way they brought this grass to feed their cattle we don't find this kind of grist anyway and was indeed so we believe that it was brought here mainly to CDD capital a great zimbabwe means houses of stone the walls of Manny Kenny appear to have been built using a similar technique Vicenta is certain that the trading community at Manor Kenny was once closely connected to the Kingdom of Great Zimbabwe for this is the walls the walls of many Canaan they were built stone understood and it is stood for many years and very strongly and after doing business.
People from the coast and people from grandson Bob whatever they exchanged like gold and eggs and other things they used to check this way to lead them to grant some baklava so this is this is the gateway this is the great zimbabwe yes maduk any seemed to be in a crossing point in two senses it seems likely that it was a place where gold was traded as a commodity coming in from Great Zimbabwe then going out toward the coast and by boat up to kill one but it also seems to be a place where the attitude to the gold itself shifted grave findings at manic any show that gold was not just a commodity it was buried with the dead very different from kill one it's time to move further inland but first a send-off from the ancestors Mannie Kenny today is far from the bustling trading center of the past but it's a place where the past is remembered and where the ancestors who may once have formed an important cog in a larger global economy are celebrated enthusiastically passing the border to the future generations because the old ones will be dying out so they want their children to know how sometimes that's why they have to dance with the young easy buddies in disbelief yes fastest and dance right now not been forgotten the evidence that this place was once a link in the gold trade between grape Zimbabwe in the coast seems compelling the architecture the grass the oral tradition and the discoveries of gold all pointed way but before I head for Great Zimbabwe I want to investigate stories of an even earlier Kingdom map and good way but to do that I need to head for the modern city of Pretoria in South Africa babban Goodway is now part of South Africa's Limpopo Province and fate has been kinder to it than it has been to manic any the museum where map and good ways glorious past is now stored is still standing home to an astonishing collection of African gold curator Sian tile Enel shows me the most famous piece a little golden Rheiner well dough is so thin it almost blows doesn't it yes see is the gold the gold would have been hammered out on a stone envel what they would have done is they would have carved a wooden rhino and then formed a gold foil over the wood in all the little holes you see away my new tax or nails would take the gold sheeting to the wood the wooden core and of course the wood just disintegrated over a thousand years almost 100 percent pure gold so it's got a leathery battery shine to it they must have been a very powerful people yes they were in fact there's many other gold artifacts that were found the second perhaps most significant item is this gold scepter or mace it's the largest gold object that was recovered from from the burial also made of gold foil babban good way was a 12th century Kingdom only a short distance from the gold mines of the Zimbabwean plateau its people clearly developed great skill in goldsmithing this work is impressive by anyone's standards as it manique any much of the treasure was found in the graves of the kings and searched burials implying a culture which valued gold for more than its commercial value this is a beautiful bowel is absolutely gorgeous in fact it's not a gold bowl it's in fact a hideous it was also found in one of the burials for 75 years it's been interpreted as a bowl as such because obviously it was looks like a bowl so I'm in good company yes there is in fact it was it was found inverted near the cranium of the individual near his head not as a crown as if it would fit over the cranium of course it's too small but more a symbolic headdress of some sort the royalty buried with these gold objects of course with a ruling power of the Limpopo Valley at the time or southern Africa so they well lay in not only the gold objects but also their wealth in cattle and trading right until the East Coast the amount of glass trade glass beads that one finds at the site together with the gold as well as the ivory shows a very wealthy Society time to visit mapping good way for myself and for that I need to get airborne local farmers jack valenti se has offered to give me a ride from up here things become a bit clearer below me is the mighty Limpopo which flows to the coast this huge river was for centuries a highway which carried people and goods from the interior to the coast and there is what remains of the golden Kingdom at map and good way today Matan good way is part of South Africa's National Park System the heart of the old kingdom is mapping good way hill Park Ranger Cedric satlak Oh has agreed to show me around this is Sir Ben helix off majin buu boyo where people leave to borrow a thousand years ago Wow archaeologists believe that map and good ways reach spread across southern Africa from the 11th to the 13th centuries and that after the kingdom collapsed some of its people may have headed north and founded great zimbabwe it was one of the most complex societies in southern africa with a rigid division between the king his ministers and his subjects.
The king was buried here with a lot of artifacts if you look at the hill itself I mean why the people will choose to live up here is because if you look around it I mean it's just sheer rock I mean there's no way that you can be able to get access this hill there's only one way up to the top the kingdom's rulers kept the hill to themselves ordinary members of map and good ways society were not allowed in even in modern times the hill still holds mystical powers to the people here most of the people long back used to believe that you wouldn't even look at the here that song grand that we even scared look at the hill I mean even the person who brought the first people are to discover the site when he had to turn his back and sort of like pointed that is the hill arrive behind me and I'm not going there yeah I said what might happen to you if you didn't look at the hill look I mean some people believe that you would you would go blind or lose your life died or something Oh wasn't so Verde ah well this view completely makes up for yeah me tiredness I feel about that client it's just glorious and suddenly you understand why you would want to build up here archaeologists have found remnants of the site of a grand stone enclosure here with huts for servants and a wooden palisade built around the summit for privacy and defense it was also where map and group where's rulers lived and died with their gold this is exactly where that little going Rhino camp Oh just from around here it's exactly what was discovered and also to indicate to you that from from the boiled Baghdad up to here this whole area this was a burial site these people were buried in a sitting position facing west and each one of them was buried wearing this golden bracelets and there was well buried with clay pots which are filled with thousands and thousands of golden glass beads so satiric why was this site so important Maupin good way is the best southern african kingdom meaning this is exactly where kingdom ship started in southern africa mean of all this kingdoms just killing existence even today and this is exactly where it all started the wooden and stone structures which would have stood here of long since disappeared but the gold artifacts in Pretoria testified to this ancient kingdoms existence its power and its wealth but Cedric is keen to show me one aspect of mapping good way life that still survives today now we have a game here it was played by them up and go where people a thousand years ago this is a game called macGruber in situ or full by in vendor I think I recognize this but please tell me do you um well my family from West Africa we have a game there which looks fairly similar called I worry the worries an ancient game is strategy now see the gloves are off the gloves are wrong I always thought that owari was a West African tradition but the fact that variations of it were played here in that and good way hints at connections which extend across the continent so maybe this wasn't an isolated Kingdom maybe it was connected with cultures across the continent the outline of map and group ways society may be famed today but the kingdom's geography seems clear the subjects and their families lived at the bottom of the hill and at the top protected by the forbidding stone enclosures with a royal family and their retinue and one of the things that has really struck me is how complex the sociology of this particular area is and if you imagine the people came and they settled here but they didn't have settle here but they created a really complex social system the support of all the people who would have lived down here farming trading bringing the water up all that infrastructure to support the family the elite that lived up there and this was a real departure for this bit of Africa a settled hierarchical society and one but seemed to at least for the period in which it was here to really work as well Matan Goodway was once the most powerful kingdom in southern Africa but by the thirteenth century it seems to have collapsed we don't know why there is much more we don't know about the life of the people here like how power was handed down or what they believed in but archaeologists now think that the people of mapping Goodway may have traveled north to found an even bigger more impressive Kingdom Great Zimbabwe good news we've finally been granted permission to film in Great Zimbabwe the greatest lost kingdom of southern Africa I'm not going to pretend it's been easy getting permission to film in Zimbabwe it's taken months of applications persuasion and at last it looks like we've got permission but nothing is certain in Zimbabwe these days even with our permissions there's still a border to cross it took four hours but eventually I'm in a 16th century Portuguese captain described Great Zimbabwe as an almost mythical sitting among the gold mines of the inland Plains is a fortress built stones of marvellous size and there appears to be no mortar joining grape Zimbabwe was Africa's Eldorado a place of myth and mystery a meeting Zimbabwean archaeologist Edward matanga former curator of the entire site ever hello guys he tells me the ruins are so important to the people here but I must have the blessing of one of the sites spiritual guardians and bua baza reira before I can get here gasps oh don't be saying that you're welcome Guzman Xena is it wonderful guest so you know we are going to take you to the security entrance true to the site thank you it's been a beautiful welcome as well as curating this site Edwin Matenga has written extensively about Great Zimbabwe is recognized as one of the world's foremost authorities on this mysterious place for the 1890 yeah this place was out of balance really him through strangers yes Hey any more because you have not been accepted by I feel very honored here so basically people deputy to be initiated a situation part of the initiation is passing through Dee Dee Dee Dee the entrance I swear the custodian they will be the spiritual sort of a the head of the place both insightful I said I said so she is that we are teased the key to the side yes you.
The key in hair sort of irresponsibility she is to open the England yes she additional you'd have to stop here yep stroppy bambua is one of several people who claim to be the spiritual guardians of this site it certainly is an impressive performance she's saying that you know you can you can you can end up the site yeah donate goody some bananas way good ending this is the great gold kingdom of Great Zimbabwe for 200 years the rulers of this place controlled a massive Empire between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers covering much of modern-day Zimbabwe in parts of Mozambique this was their capital their palace and their Bastian since the credo of a lot of people who live in this region the descendants of people who used to live here are not found in South Africa and Botswana de nada nada can recite from the 13th century to the 15th these people controlled the gold mines of the plateau here in stone is their expression of that wealth and power walls that soar out of the earth that curve and flow around the contours of the ground creating narrow passageways and forbidding enclosures this is a stunning feat of architecture there is nothing gluing these walls together just an extraordinary precision and craft this is the highest war if there is barber 811 11 meters it is 6 meters wide at the bottom it is estimated that a about more than a million bricks are pegged into this a into this wall at its height this place was a medieval city home to 25,000 people seemingly divided into social groups right now we are on the summit of the be the this bubble here this is called the Zimbabwe II complex they are three sort of a areas of this making of this decide we will the he completes we were the valley ruins which the largest building the great enclosure is located a a there and then a beyond the the the the the stone walls and least obvious of course to many visitors is the fact that the way a lot of housing units dense housing units that will located outside the enclosures and over an area a of about seven hundred collectives the subjects and their king seem to have lived very separate lives it's likely the Great Zimbabwe cement stone walls ensure that the rich religious and the powerful were kept separate from everyone else if the site in many ways is a matrix of passages yes anyway they built so many passages in words guess but I want to build that it might have something to do with the social protocols yes actually the idea base cannot control the traffic of people some people are not supposed to be seats in in certain places so they would have to follow dis ignited the passages so they might have been various passages for sort of various levels of I mean in terms of social organization of the community yes that okay the Kings or the Rio wives they would for these passages and then of course the plebeians the law a sort of Frank would for these passages but for decades the significance of this place what it meant who built it has been fiercely debated the British who ran this part of the world in the late 19th century believed that a non African people must have built this kingdom speculation as to who that might have been has ranged from the Phoenicians to the Queen of Sheba when this country was run by its white minority the idea that anyone but Africans built this city was actively and enthusiastically promoted the carbon dating technology has ruled out ancient foreign civilizations as being responsible for Great Zimbabwe there's no evidence in this architecture to suggest that this place was built by anyone other than those who came from here and the evidence from earlier settlements that map and good way shows a continuity of southern African culture the settle view now is great zimbabwe was built by africans archaeologists are also sure that this place was a rich trading kingdom a wealth of trading goods beads bracelets porcelain and glass from China and the Middle East have been found here along with gold mined only 40 kilometers away George was obviously very important and we know there was traffic between this place or the southern african indolent in the east african coast linking with the China with India with the Middle East and that was one factor that might have caused the people to become wealth and build these structures is an expression of that wealth one artifact in particular shows the links between Great Zimbabwe and the wider world it's a 14th century copper coin like this one from Kilwa hisilani the great trading city on the coast a place which derived its wealth by selling on the gold from great zimbabwe to the rest of the world to ends the same trading route there's still so much that we don't know about our Great Zimbabwe the nature of its king or Kings the full meaning of its narrow passageways and forbidding architecture but we do know that this vast city was one of Africa's richest and most sophisticated kingdoms and the starting point of a gigantic trading network that stretched from these high plateau across southern Africa to the Swahili coast and across the globe to Arabia India and China and when Great Zimbabwe went into decline in the 15th century so too did kill won two kingdoms connected by gold and forgotten by historians for centuries today the ruins of Great Zimbabwe have given their name to a modern African country they are a reminder that although ancient kingdoms can be forgotten they are rarely truly lost this remarkable Kingdom high in the zimbabwe highlands is an emblem of a continent remembering its past i began this journey some distance from here on the Swahili coast thinking that this was a journey about trade about gold but it's been about more than that it's been about recovering an african past from the ruins of lost civilizations there's still much we don't know about this history and these lost kingdoms but here in Africa their memory is still celebrated and rightly so the past is still very much alive here it's still a living breathing part of people's lives their culture and their identity coming up tonight here on bbc4 we're staying in Africa as we explore the world in 80 treasures the Ark of the Covenant from Ethiopia is up next it's really happening Rock dad you wanna meet Walter do you think I don't know what you've been doing it I am so high while you're distracted I'm gonna take off my shoes pay attention your words not mine man you have everything and so much of it the multi award-winning drama returns next Wednesday at 10:00 on bbc4 well Charlie broker's brand-new news wife it.
