with Humphrey Burton The Killing Fields
Ten years ago the war in South-East Asia was drawing to a bloody close. New York Times correspondent Sydney Schanberg was among the handful of journalists in Cambodia who wrote daily accounts of the fighting as civil war gripped the country. It nearly cost him his life - and the life of his Cambodian partner Dith Pran.
Now their story has been made into a major feature film by David Puttnam. In
Omnibus this week Schanberg and Pran describe the real story behind the film as BBC cameras join the unit on location in Thailand. Narrated by journalist and Cambodian expert William Shawcross.
Film cameraman NAT CROSBY Film sound CHRIS KING Film editor JOHN VEAL Director ROBIN LOUGH Editor IAN SQUIRES