From Crimea with Love: Misadventures in the Making of Sharpes Rifles

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In the summer of 1992, Jason Salkey was cast in a role that would change his life forever. Sharpe's Rifles, a Napoleonic war drama, was to be shot in the Crimean Peninsula. Little did the producers know that they would be sending Jason and the crew to film in a rapidly disintegrating Soviet Union. There they faced near-starvation and danger round every corner as they set about creating one of Britain's most successful and critically acclaimed television programmes.

From Crimea with Love documents the mishaps, blunders, incompetence and downright corruption that made Sharpe's Riflesbrings you an eye-opening, jaw-dropping insider's account of one of the best-loved shows ever made.

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Jason Salkey is an actor who has been a regular on our screens over the last three decades. In 1992 he took on the role of Rifleman Harris in Sharpe's Rifles, which became one of British television's most cherished shows. He has also appeared in a number of films, including Memphis Belle, The Russia House, The Fifth Element, Fairy Tale: A True Story, In America and About a Boy. Jason lives in London.

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