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27/01/2013

BBC Two - Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

A government scientist is asked to introduce salmon in the highlands of Yemen.

Comedy drama. A government scientist receives an almost impossible task from a sheik - to create a salmon-fishing paradise in the highlands of Yemen.

When Dr Alfred Jones, an advisor at the Department of Fisheries, receives an unsolicited email from Harriet Chetwode-Talbot regarding the aspirations of her very wealthy Yemeni client to create a salmon fishing paradise in his home country, he replies immediately, pointing out the obvious improbability of success. 

However, when the unlikely project is given the green light from government, the pair have to find a way of making the impossible possible.

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