Unreported World: Cuba, Basketball and Betrayal

Series 19, episode 0

Channel 4's critically acclaimed foreign affairs strand returns for its 25th series, with Paralympian wheelchair basketball star Ade Adepitan joining the reporting team. Ade is granted access on a rare scale to some of Cuba's most famous sports stars, to investigate why some of them have defected to the USA just as Cuba seems to be opening up. Adepitan and director David Fuller travel to Ciego De Avila, six hours east of Havana, and home to the best basketball team in Cuba. Many of the Ciego Buffalo stars are in the national team, but some of them have made headlines for reasons not to do with performance on the basketball court.