Documenting the stories of Britons who have been incarcerated abroad. In the first programme, a couple explain how, eager to make enough money to see them through the Ibiza winter, they ended up getting involved in smuggling marijuana from Costa Rica to Amsterdam - before being imprisoned in Mexico.

The story of Sandra Gregory, who had to give up her job teaching English as a foreign language in Thailand due to ill health. As a way of prolonging her stay, she attempted to smuggle 90 grams of heroin into Japan in exchange for £1,000 - but was arrested at Bangkok airport and sentenced to life in the city's notoriously tough Lard Yao prison

The story of traveller Mark, who got caught up in drug trafficking when he tried to put his life back on track. Agreeing to smuggle a kilo of cocaine from San Francisco to Australia in exchange for $100,000, he was caught moments during the attempt - little realising the narcotics he had swallowed to transport were slowly killing him

The cautionary tale of freelance yachtsman Donald MacNeil who flew out to the Mediterranean under the belief that he was being hired by acquaintances to teach them to sail a boat back to England. Instead he was drawn into a cocaine-smuggling operation which ended in almost seven years spent in a Venezuelan prison.