A good taste adventure series produced in Cartagena in Colombia in the mid-'90s and based on Anglo-Polish author, Joseph Conrad's novel. The vivid tropical colours of Colombia, Latin-American settings, flair set-pieces and Late 19th-Century costumes are sumptuous while Lancastrian actor Albert Finney (''Scrooge'' (1970), ''Under the Volcano'' (1982)) is quite superb as the drunken cynical Dr Monygham. Produced at a time when the Beeb could conjure higher classical things with a feel for adventure and flair apropos of the equally adventurous ''The Search for the Nile'' (1971) and ''The Voyage of Charles Darwin'' (1978) there is nothing bland or mediocre about it.
Review of Nostromo
