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Desert Chess
About the event
Stephen McGown undertakes a bucket-list trip on his motorbike from London to Cape Town in 2011. In Mali, he is captured by Al Qaeda and held for ransom for nearly 6 years in the Sahara Desert. This monodrama is based on Stephen’s story as recorded by Tudor Caradoc-Davies in Six Years with Al Qaeda.
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