The poetry and song of the Boer War drawn from the book by M. Van Wyck Smith and composed for radio by Keith Darvill.

The British army is an organised host of poets. Never before has Britain sent forth to the battlefield so large a force of men sufficiently educated to write.

With the voices of Glynis Brooks, Ian Burford, Jon Croft, Philip Davis, Adrian Egan, Malcolm Hayes, Roger Heathcott, Hilda Kriseman, Gregory de Polnay, Maddy Prior, Struan Rodger, Michael Troughton and Peter Tuddenham