1: Horatio Nelson
Written and presented by the distinguished historian of Trafalgar David Howarth
In all Britain's long nautical history there has been no one to compare with Nelson. He was a legend among his sailors in his lifetime. No hero died more splendidly - on his own flagship at the height of his greatest sea battle. Britain's navy-indeed all navies - have held him in honour ever since. Yet his private life created a scandal which dogged his reputation for decades after his death.
In this programme DAVID HOWARTH takes a more charitable view of this brilliant but fallible man and claims that his supreme quality was not his genius as a strategist and commander but his kindness and his remarkable capacity to inspire affection.
Photography JIM PEIRSON Sound RON KEIGHTLgY TONY ANSCOMBE
Film editor PETER BARBER Executive producer HARRY HASTINGS
Producer MALCOLM BROWN