Episode 1 - The Journey
...asks why anybody would want to ever undertake such a trip in the first place - discusses the first sights you see upon arrival - and introduces us to the omnipresent 'Guides'.
'My Mate Went on Holiday to North Korea' tells the story of exactly what its like to visit the so-called Hermit Kingdom - everything from booking your trip in the first place, through getting on the train in Beijing, to creaking across the boarder, an Alcatraz-like hotel and seeing the embalmed corpses of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il - as seen through the eyes of Luke Pearce, who travelled there on vacation in 2016. The interviewer is Dave Smith