Simon Reeve's journey around Central Asia begins in Kazakhstan.
The country has oil deposits thought to rival those of Saudi Arabia.
However, Simon also discovers former biological weapons factories with poor security and housing a hundred types of plague, a shrinking sea now home to camel farmers, and the region's best Beatles tribute band.
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