(from the novel by A. E.W. Mason)
A dramatic chronicle for broadcasting in twelve parts
Written and produced by Peter Creswell Part 3 - 'Abou Fatma of the Kababish'
Cast Harold Scott and
In Part 1 listeners saw a picture of Harry Feversham, a boy of fourteen, descended from a long line of soldier ancestors, listening to first-hand accounts of the Crimean war. Sometimes brave men were cowards, and from that moment Harry became in embryo the man who was afraid of being afraid. The years pass; he re ncommission in his father's regiment, and, hearing that his h is ordered to a war in Egypt, he resigns his commission rather x father and Ethne, the girl he is going to marry.
In Part 2 three brother officers each send him a white feather, and Ethne, plucking one from her fan, makes it four. He sees in these feathers not a symbol of disgrace, but mucn n retrieving it. He proceeds alone to bgypt-