As World War 2 was drawing to a close, Australia's secret commando unit, 'Z Special Force', had bungled a number of operations trying to rescue 2,500 Australian and English prisoners of war held by the Japanese in North Borneo. At war's end, only 6 of those prisoners would survive. When the Commanders of 'Z Special Force' realized that they were too late to save any of the prisoners, in a last desperate act of bitter frustration, they dispatched agents behind enemy lines by US submarines to assassinate the Japanese commanders in Borneo. Kept secret from the Australian public for over 50...

How much does chance play in our lives? Why do we find ourselves in situations that we should have avoided? What gives some people a better chance than others? When circumstances collide, what happens to chance? When Alex Langley vanishes, what chance do the Police and his family have to find him? When a man is brought in to emergency with life threatening injuries, what chance do the surgeons have to keep him alive? When he's had massive head injuries, when he's been in a coma for weeks, when the doctors think he might be brain dead... but he can still hear them, what chance does he have?...

In 1962 at the height of the Cuban missile crisis, a young Canadian television writer and his artist friend were prowling the docks in Montreal in search of a munitions ship headed for blockaded Cuba. Their goal was to sign on as crewmen, as a first step in their planned journey of adventure around the world. Instead, they find themselves signed on to a Norwegian freighter bound for Africa. Thus began a journey that took them from Montreal to Capetown South Africa, and finally by jeep through thirteen countries of colonial Africa to Cairo, and on to thirty other countries. On the way, they...

What happens when a rafting trip goes wrong? Can four guys survive a raging river and the African bush? It all started out as a lazy Sunday afternoon float down the river.. but when the four friends find themselves drifting into a pod of angry hippos, things soon start to go wrong. When they hear the sound of an approaching waterfall.. the four friends soon turn into the Four Kabompo Fools. Caught in the Congo rebellion, they're shot at, chased by wild elephants, snakes, and smugglers. When they don't show up on time, their wives and sweethearts don't even know where to start looking for...

As D-Day approached in Europe, the RAF formed a new photo reconnaissance unit to provide intelligence on enemy movements on the ground. 69 Squadron was given the task of low level photo reconnaissance, using out-dated Wellington bombers to drop flares and then fly low and slow at one thousand feet to take photos. At that level they were sitting ducks for every German soldier with a weapon. This is the story of one of those pilots, an Australian who won the Distinguished Flying Cross while flying those missions over crucial battlefields following the D-Day invasion. Jack Brown went on to a...

In 1962, with a Canadian friend, Andy Larson embarked on a journey driving across colonial Africa in a wartime jeep. Sleeping on the ground, the pair encountered civil wars, riots, and wild animals while seeing the continents fascinating scenery and meeting its interesting peoples. In June 2010 Andy Larson embarked on another journey, this time sailing a 36 foot sailboat alone from Vancouver to Mexico, and then across the Pacific Ocean to Sydney Australia. Alone at sea, he encountered whales and dolphins, endured solitude and loneliness, fought through storms, battled breakdowns, and sat for...