“We are now beyond the Missouri River. We have left the States behind. Ahead of us lie the great uncivilised plains.”On the wagon trains of the perilous migration across America to Oregon and California, the strength of women was tested against the ambition and pride of their men.Starring Carolyn Jones, Tracy-Ann Oberman and Marcia Warren.Ellen Dryden’s 19th century drama.Martha ... Carolyn JonesLucy .... Tracy Ann ObermanHannah ... Marcia WarrenThomas ... Bradley LavelleGeorge ... Nathan OsgoodRobert McKail .... David BannermanElizabeth Swain ... Mia SoteriouRebecca ... Alison PettittFrancis ... David BrooksJonah ... Mac McDonaldWoman ... Liza RossCharles Putnam ... Alan MarriottMusic by Mia Soteriou.Director: Ned ChailletFirst broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1997.

The Jericho mountain race - five hundred miles of spongy desert sand and impossible rocks and mountain cliffs. It takes a special breed of man, riding a very special horse, to win that grueling contest. Colonel Robert Dinsmore knows he has the horse that can do it - Crusader, a magnificent black stallion. But he knows, too, that there's only one man who can ride that great horse - the wild outlaw Harry Camden. The Colonel enlists Harry to train and race Crusader, but Harry will not find winning the event an easy task. For there are those who hate Harry Camden a great deal, and love victory even more, and some of those men will stop at nothing to be victorious - not even murder!