BBC Play for Today (1984) ★ Desert of Lies (S14E5)

Desert of Lies is a 1984 British BBC 'Play for Today' television drama film. It features Cherie Lunghi, Mick Ford, Tim Wylton, Tom Bell, and Terence Rigby. Jake and Sue's expedition to the Kalahari Desert in 1983 follows in the footsteps of an earlier trek in 1848 by two missionaries. The two pairs of travellers, in the past and the present, meet with disaster. Play for Today is a British BBC television anthology drama series, which originally aired between 1970 and 1984.