What really happened on the River Kwai? In this programme, John Coast , author and ex-pow, revisits the scenes of his enforced labour, together with three of his former Japanese captors.
We see the place where, 30 years ago, thousands of British lives were sacrificed by the Japanese to drive a railway line through the jungle from Bangkok to Burma. If it hadn't been for the famous film few people would remember their epic struggle for survival. But ironically, just because of the film, fact and fiction have become confused.
Tonight's documentary is a personal and evocative account of just what did happen during the building of this infamous railway.
Producer ANTHONY DE LOTBINIERE