Throng

macintyre’s underworld

Donal MacIntyre returns with a new run of the programme that delves into Britain’s underworld. In this new series, Donal follows up his awardwinning investigation into Nottingham drug dealer Wayne Hardy, ten years after his original ‘World in Action’ report.

Donal once again takes personal risks to revisit Hardy’s gang and interview the charismatic criminal. He finds out how Hardy has fared in the intervening years and poses the ultimate question: does crime pay? The resulting film shows that Hardy has had to deal with human tragedies along with the wealth that his activities appear to have brought him.

Also in this series, Donal finds out about the next generation of criminals, with an investigation into an underworld crime family. Four years of filming culminates in a frank and disturbing picture of the teenagers in the clan as they face jail, puberty, electronic tagging and life on the run. The series also incudes a profile of Ian ‘Lucky’ Tucker, a Kent criminal with a fearsome reputation, while another episode follows former terrorist Johnny ‘Mad Dog’ Adair and Nick ‘The Nazi’ Greger as they join forces on a trip to open an orphanage in Uganda. Along the way, the unlikely pair must confront their former prejudices and resist the temptation to revert to illegal ways.