Balls to Africa: Sporting Noses on Tour - Season 1
Season 1
Episodes
Episode 1
First of three programmes following the Comic Relief football team that journeyed to Africa last July. Angus Deayton, Frank Skinner, David Baddiel, Nick Hancock, Patrick Robinson, Robbie Walters and David Essex were among the stars who visited projects funded by Comic Relief and played football against local teams.
Episode 2
In the second of three programmes the Comic Relief celebrity football team, including Ainsley Harriott and John Leslie , prepares to take on its first opponents: a team from Loanga, a tiny village on the edge of the Sahara. While there, Angus Deayton and Nick Hancock check on the progress of the "magic stones" water conservation project funded by the charity.
Episode 3
The last of three programmes following the Comic Relief celebrity football team's tour of Ghana and Burkina Faso, sees the side, which includes Victor Ubogu , Karl Howman and Robbie Gee, face veterans of the Ghanaian first division's Real Tamale, and the Ghanaian women's champions Postcomm Ladies. Also, Susan Tully visits a project for street children, and Frank Skinner and David Baddiel sing at a "peace" school.
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