Mike Walker's adaptation of CS Forester's novel, best-known in its film version by John Huston.
During the [First] World War, straight-laced missionary Rose Sayer and gin-swigging Cockney Charlie Allnutt find themselves marooned together in occupied central Africa. When Rose proposes they escape, the unlikely duo embark on a journey together through the whitewater rapids and crocodile swamps of the Ulanga river in Charlie's ramshackle old launch The African Queen.