How to Make a Million from Slavery

Drama about 18th-century sugar merchant Henry Lascelles, whose attempt to build a floating slave factory off the West African coast is hampered by a government inspector, Robert Dinwiddie, who is determined to expose his financial misdemeanours. Their battle takes in the plantations of Barbados and the coffee houses of London, until the case comes before the Lords of Trade. Robert Pugh and Jack Shepherd star. Part of a series of programmes about slavery