Though we only came back from filming in November, Director Neil Ferguson and ace editor Eddie Haselden have raced to get a three part series out of all the material we brought back from Africa. And it’s going to be launched on Channel 5 at 9:00pm on Tuesday 16 April.

The three shows have come out really well. Largely because Nigeria delivered some of the loudest, jolliest, most photogenic contributors I’ve ever worked with, and Jaimie Gramston and Ben Crossley on camera, and Joe Morsman on sound have captured the crazy colourfulness of the country quite brilliantly.

I may be biased, but if you enjoyed our trips to North Korea and Iraq, I think you’ll appreciate the openness and, dare I say it, the noise of Nigeria. We didn’t have to find people who wanted to talk. They found us.

Very big thanks too, to our Assistant Producer Lola Arisekola, who typified everything I liked about Nigeria. In our most difficult situations her laugh, which could be heard several blocks away, kept us going.

As with my previous series, I’ve written a book of my travels in Nigeria, which will come out early next year. Great-Uncle Harry is about to come out in paperback and  Volume 4 of my diaries, working title There And Back, will be available In all good bookshops, and a few bad ones, from September. 

Warning: I’m planning a Stage Tour for the Diaries, so there’ll be no hiding place.