Synopsis
In Kazakhstan, Reeve discovers a poorly secured former biological weapons factories with a hundred types of plague stored there. He also finds a shrinking sea that is now home to camel farmers, and the region's best Beatles tribute band.
- Programme: Holidays in the Danger Zone
- Series: 1
- Episode: 01: Meet the Stans: Kazakhstan
- Channel: BBC Four
- Broadcast year: 2003
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