Click here to watch an exclusive clip from Ross Kemp in Afghanistan (contains language that may offend)

Last year, EastEnders actor turned award-winning journalist Ross Kemp travelled to Afghanistan to live with, travel with, and face fire with British soldiers.

Kemp lived with sand storms, temperatures of over 50ºC and the constant threat of attack from the Taliban to film a documentary about the lives of soldiers for Sky One.

"Conditions in Afghanistan are intolerable,” he said. “The heat is stifling and there's the constant threat of snipers, RPG attacks and land mines. During one engagement between B Company and the Taliban we were pinned down by enemy fire in open ground; bullets fizzed by inches from our heads, hitting the ground on either side of us. It was the most frightening experience of my life. I’ve never hugged the ground as tightly as I did when that happened. It's definitely the closest I have ever come to dying. I was so scared."

Here, Times Online brings you an exclusive clip of Kemp under fire during his time in Afghanastan.

Ross Kemp in Afghanistan begins on Sky One and Sky One HD at 9pm on January 21.

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