by Michael Hastings
[Starring] Kenneth Haigh, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Keith Buckley

His expeditions were like a red-hot poker drawn across a blanket. With a dedicated ruthlessness, Henry Stanley set out to solve the problems surrounding the source of the Nile that had obsessed Victorian England for so long.
Meanwhile Richard Burton's wife Isabel prepared herself to commit one of the great literary crimes of the 19th century.