Cape to Cairo
Written and narrated by ROY LEWIS
One hundred years ago, CECIL RHODES dreamed of building a railway across 6,000 miles of Africa. An iron life-line of Empire marking the British claim to dominate the continent from one end to the other.
Now the journey from the Dutch farms of Cape Town to the mosques of Cairo passes the Victoria Falls, the Game Parks of Kenya, over the Karroo Desert and through equatorial Sudan, past the buildings and monuments of a changed Africa.
The dream of Empire faded, but the railway itself has become of vital importance to the new, independent countries of Africa. Although in places diesel is taking over, the great steam locos still dominate many of the lines between Cape Town and Cairo.
Film cameraman IAN stone
Film editor ALAN j. CUMNER-PSICE Producer colin LUKE
Editors MICHAEL ANDREWS, ANTHONY ISAACS