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The Dreaded Masai Country

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A true story of discovery with Maurice Roeves as Joseph Thomson
Narrator Tom Fleming With PETER RUMNEY and FINLAY WELSH
Script NICHOLAS BEST
One hundred years ago, on 15 March 1883, Joseph Thomson set off from
Mombasa on one of the last great journeys of African exploration. His route would take him where no white man had ever before set foot, across the uncharted highlands of Kenya to the shores of Lake
Victoria. Thomson, the ultimate Boys' Own hero, survived to tell his remarkable story. It was a story which H. Rider Haggard ruthlessly appropriated as his own and published as King Solomon's Mines.
Producer ALAN HAYDOCK

Contributors

Unknown:
Maurice Roeves
Narrator:
Joseph Thomson
Unknown:
Peter Rumney
Unknown:
Joseph Thomson
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H. Rider
Producer:
Alan Haydock
Source: Radio Times

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