The Trumpet-Major by Thomas Hardy
Dramatised by Michael Kittermaster
with Ian Holm, Gareth Thomas, Rosalind Ayres and Christopher Benjamin
The soldiers who came to the village of Overcombe and won the hearts of the young ladies had little idea that they'd end up as dust on the battlefields of Salamanca, Toulouse and Waterloo. For one particular soldier, his affair of the heart was complicated by a rival who was not only a sailor, but also his brother.
(First broadcast in 1977)
