PanoramaCocaine: Alex James in Colombia
Directed by David Notman-WattTV-PG
S56 • E4 Jan 28, 20086.6
In this production for Panorama. Alex James confesses to spending a million pounds on champagne and cocaine during the Britpop years with Blur. Now with the drug more popular in the UK than ever before and celebrities in the firing line for promoting it he travels to Colombia at the invitation of its government. He meets the farmers, the sellers and the enforcers and hears the message that every gram is tainted in blood.
