Tim Butcher on the story of Barbara Greene in Africa

Leading Africa correspondent and adventurer Tim Butcher tells the fascinating and unexpected story of Graham Greene and his cousin Barbara in Sierra Leone and Liberia in the 1930s. Greene took 26 bearers, a case of scotch, and hammocks in which he and his cousin Barbara were carried. Barabara in her bloomers was an unlikely person to make such a perilous and difficult journey but her part in the escapade went largely unrecorded and unacknowledged by Greene when he wrote his book based on the experience- Journey Without End. And this was even though Barabara had saved his life when he was struck down by illness. Their journey was retraced by Tim Butcher - as he recounts in the book Chasing the Devil.