A ballad by G.K. Chesterton arranged for broadcasting by Val Gielgud
[Starring] D.A. Clarke-Smith, Valentine Dyall, and Laidman Browne

G.K. Chesterton's 'Lepanto' has often been voted one of the greatest dramatic poems in the English language. His powerful use of imagery has never been better than in this stirring poem. At the Battle of Lepanto in 1571 Don John of Austria headed a battle fleet contributed from the Italian seaports, the King of Spain, and the Pope, and freed Christendom from the greatest menace it had ever known. Lepanto was certainly one of the world's decisive battles, and Chesterton found in it subject-matter suitable to his extraordinary virility and poetic gusto.