Diary of a Search
' If I was in life for fame and fortune I'd be in the movies or as Whistler said, jump off Waterloo Bridge with fireworks in my pockets. There's more ways of making a big flash deal of yourself than digging bloody holes in the desert, believe me.'
John Romer , a self-confessed ' loony ' under the spell of Egypt's mysterious past, was filmed for two years as his ill-assorted team searched for the treasure of ancient kings and possible glory. But in the heat of the desert passions flare and in this intimate portrait all is revealed about the pressures of expedition life; about an offbeat man; about Romer's Egypt. Narrated by joss ACKLAND
Film editor ROLAND ARMSTRONG
Written and produced by PAUL WATSON