After spending close to a month being held hostage, at different locations throughout Iraq and Kuwait, three members of the Lockwood family finally set foot on British soil. 

Saddam Hussein agreed to release the women and children, but the father’s and all the adult men, are required to stay on as hostages. Glenda, Craig, and Stuart Lockwood are returning to their home country, but it’s a country where they haven’t lived or worked in almost 4 years. After TV footage airs of Stuart Lockwood meeting Saddam Hussein and snubbing him a bit, he becomes an International news story, and is greeted back in the UK as an unlikely hero, the press dubbed, The British Bulldog. Members of the Chappell family return to the UK, but their father is also still being held hostage, in Kuwait. 

For Season One: we take a trip back to 1990, to the first Gulf War and Desert Storm. We follow the frightening and unlikely tale of a British family and many others, who were working or vacationing in the middle east at the time of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, and how these unlikely westerners became an official part of Saddam Hussein's military strategy. 

Join Host, Producer, and Modern History Enthusiast Robb Coles to revisit and walk through the big news stories that were breaking in the background of millennial childhood.

Sources: 
Diary of a Human Shield by Glenda Lockwood
With It or In It: Desert Shield and Storm from the Loader's Hatch by Bacil Donovan Warren
The Last Flight to Kuwait: BBC 
Saddam’s Shields: 
The United States and Hostage-Taking During the First Gulf War by Matthew Gailani 
Live from Baghdad Book: Robert Wiener 
Live from Baghdad Film: HBO


Interviews: Bacil Donovan Warren, Matthew Gailani