From Wales to Timbuktu - Episode 1

World famous Welsh book town Hay-on-Wye won a global competition to be twinned with Timbuktu - the fabled 'most inaccessible place' in the subcontinent of Africa - and ancient home of writing, manuscripts and books. Four teenagers from Hay have the opportunity of going on the writing journey of their lifetime. They take 'the route of ink' to Timbuktu and use their voyage of discovery to fuel and inspire their own creative writing.