'Mark Thomas, in essence, is a brilliant investigative journalist disguised as

an angry, shouty comedian…very funny indeed'

Daily Telegraph

Mark has been on a journey of discovery in the company of arms dealers, torture victims, ex-SAS officers, spooks and geeks.

This show is the deeply funny, deeply disturbing journey of Mark’s rampage through the arms trade.  Under a fairly flimsy disguise and with the use of some worryingly poor accents, Mark managed to set himself up as an arms dealer, a PR adviser on the most sensitive of human rights issues and generally did what he does best, which is to annoy the right people.  As he works out deals, brokers torture equipment, and advises armies he discovers just how easy it is to avoid the law.

Hard-hitting, laugh-out-loud funny and shockingly entertaining, Mark Thomas is never anything less than compulsive.

Mark Thomas has been a performer since 1985, he has toured the UK and abroad, has made seven series of his own show for Channel 4, worked as a comic an activist and a writer. He still just about has a regular column in the New Statesman magazine. In April 2006 Channel 4 broadcast After School Arms Club, a documentary on arms brokerage laws where two schools form arms companies to show loopholes in UK and European arms control laws. The Irish government have pledged to introduce new brokerage laws by the end of the year. He will be publishing his first book, an expose of the international arms trade, in July of this year.