All the World's Diamonds
15th September 1996All the World's Gold
22nd September 1996The Place of the Killing
29th September 1996The Price of My Blood
6th October 1996The Chameleon and the Fly
13th October 1996Land, Gold and Loot
20th October 1996Upsetting the Apple Cart
27th October 1996The Reckoning
3rd November 1996Martin Shaw stars as Cecil Rhodes, the man whose controversial career included the creation of de Beers, the addition of nearly one million square miles to the Britain's African Empire, and had given his name to a country (Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe) larger than most of Europe. Martin Shaw's son plays the younger Rhodes and other cast members include Neil Pearson, Frances Barber and Ken Stott.