by Evelyn Waugh, dramatised in four parts by Barry Campbell
with Hugh Dickson, Norman Rodway, Patrick Troughton, Carleton Hobbs and Hugh Burden as the Narrator

Nine weeks of 'flap', of alternating chaos and order. The Halberdiers were far from the battle, but delicate nerves stretched to them from the front where the Allied armies were falling apart; each new shock carried its small, painful agitation to the extremities.

(First broadcast in 1974)
(Repeated: Tues 3.15 pm)
(Graham Greene on Evelyn Waugh: Fri 8.35 pm, R3)

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