First Broadcast: 11.15PM Sat 21 March 2009

The Bronx Zoo offered $50,000 to anyone who can provide them with a live and healthy 30 foot snake.

It is 1999 and this prize has stood unclaimed for over 80 years, but Robert Twigger, a poet, bodyguard, rap artist, hearse driver and recent winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year, believes he is the man to claim the prize - and in doing so overcome his fear of snakes.

From Malaysia to the uninhabited forests of Indonesia, Twigger sets out to find the biggest snake in the world.

This content was made in 1999.

    1. Man tugging snake Sat 21 Mar 2009

      The Bronx Zoo offered $50,000 to anyone who can provide them with a live and healthy 30 foot snake.

      • Includes scenes of animal killing that some viewers may find upsetting

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