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- BFI identifier404971
- Date1993-04-17 (Television)
- Production countryUnited Kingdom
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- SynopsisPreston King, Professor of Politics at Lancaster University, travels to guy- ana to track down 'pork-knockers', the legendary prospectors of a byegone age who seek gold and diamonds in the country's jungle. He meets Uncle Joe, the 'Diamond King', and sets off to find pork-knockers Richard and Curran in the out-back. (Synopsis) Preston King, Professor of Politics at Lancaster, travels to Guyana in South America in search of the diamond and gold prospecters. They are now rare, forced out by large scale mining, but in Georgetown's gold markets Preston meets Uncle Joe, the `Diamond King'. He travels up the Essequibo River to Bartica, `gateway to the interior', shoots rapids and reaches the heart of the jungle by light aircraft and Bedford truck only to find deserted excavations and the women who run the bars and the brtothels. Up-river he finds Richard and Curran who dig, washs, sieve and pan for grains of gold. Journey's end is the majestic Kaiteur waterfalls. (Shotlist)
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A King among Pork-knockers (Original)
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Work - 404971 - 1993-04-17 (Television)
United Kingdom - TV - Non Fiction
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