Better late than never... Langan goes online. (May 2007)
"Well, I've finally joined the rest of the world and gone on line. Just wanted to say hello to everyone who's clicked on my website, and to say thank you to anyone who's ever watched one of my documentaries.
It really is nice to know someone's watching a documentary about the world outside, especially when most people in TV would rather film-makers concentrate on important subjects like celebrities, celebrities and... er, celebrities.
So welcome, and thank you.
Also, like any new-comer, here's a few of my likes and dislikes...I love and hate, in no particular order: TV suits and executives, newspaper and magazine editors, london, kabul, Helmand, Kunar, baghdad, Fallujha, Ramadi, Tehran, Caracas, Buenos Aires, the valleys and mountains and people of Kashmir, The Algarve; kapuzinski, despatches, vodka cigarettes, cocaine, cameras, food and wine, laughter and tears, thrills, high drama, tension, when all is lost but still won, guns at head, swims at sunrise, surfing, nature, snow, the intensity of life, near death and adrenalin, children's smiles, innocent eyes and humanity at it's best; L'Atmosphere, The Hamra; my family and friends, living and departed, and my ex-wife and two precious boys, and all my comrades in the foreign press corp, and everyone I've ever met on the road.... Taliban, Afghan driving instructors and brave Afghan women, American and British Soldiers, Iraqi insurgents, islamic fighters, jihadists, latin revolutionaries, human rights activists, holy men and women, and saints, enviromentalists, mercenaries, terrorists and freedom fighters all. But most of all I love my mother, brothers, sister, father, sons, God, Allah and my close friends, and all the people I've met who have to just get on with their lives in some of the places I've visited in this mad mad world. It's been an adventure, and a privelage to live in the magical real world out there. Thanks and hello to all I've met on my travels.
I am presently lying low in London, recovering from the last two years working in Afghanistan and pretending to write a book. So will remain silent, and sleeping, until the next time I go abroad."