DOCUMENTARY OF THE WEEK: Chimps are people too; HORIZON TUESDAY, BBC2,9pm Scot Danny Wallace asks the experts if chimps should be treated like humans.

If chimps share 99.4 per cent of our DNA, should they be classed as people?

This is the intriguing, if everso- slightly tongue-in-cheek question DannyWallace sets out to answer Wallace, as viewers will remember, is no stranger to wacky projects. The Scotsborn writer became King Danny I in 2005 after declaring his flat in Bow, London, a micronation named Lovely, in the hilarious show How To Start Your Own Country.

In his latest adventure he asks primatologists, philosophers, animals right lawyers and, you've guessed it, chimps too, whether they should be afforded the same status as us.

He even hires a top London PR agency to help spread the word that chimps are human.

The journey takes Danny fromthe stuffy confines of The Royal Society in London to the depths of the African jungle.

In the US, he visits research centres, upsetting staff with his blunt questioning, and then takes a beer in Hollywood with trained chimp Cody. But nobody seems to want to take him seriously.

He watches primates in their natural state in Uganda before cuddling orphans at a rehab centre on Ngamba Island.Even here experts are sceptical of Danny's mission.

Finally, it's Kanzi, a captive Bonobo ape that adds weight to Danny's argument. The scientist looking after him has been teaching him to converse using a keyboard that matches pictures with words.

Danny says:"This convinces me even more that chimps and Bonobos are like people."