The Making of Sharpe's Peril

Last Update: 19 Oct 2008

A nullah in the desert 25 kilometres south-west of Khajuraho - an arid, baking-hot, wild, dusty and truly desolate area … and our filming-location for two weeks. We shot one scene with three principal actors on horseback right on top of the bare mountain in the far distance.

Filming in the desert for two welcome bouts of 'split-day' and night-filming as the daytime temperature had now reached 100 degrees. A hazard - albeit a slight one - was the native wildlife : never move or pick up a stone with your hands (use your sheath-knife, a socket-bayonet or a stick) as you never know what might be lying beneath it … and a lot of these things emerge at night. This 'grandfather' scorpion spotted beneath the Armoury truck measured about six inches in length and reputedly killed an unwary dog the previous week so this scorpion only survived blows from the nearest blunt instrument long enough for me to take this photograph.

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