The smoking of flavoured tobacco in water pipes was once commonplace in Iran, but authorities have cracked down on the practise in recent years.

Jill Worrall goes stealthily in search of a teahouse where she can smoke a water pipe, following a crackdown on the practice by Iranian authorities.

The citadel of Rayen is over 1000 years old and was slowly crumbling back into the desert until the Bam earthquake of December 2003. Only then did the powers-that-be realise its worth and being an extensive programme of restoration.

Matt Kennedy-Good and his mates travel through the heart of the Persian Empire during their epic rally journey.