by Stuart Hood
A cannonade, then a sudden infantry charge over the shattered walls of Rome exactly a century ago completed the making of the Kingdom of Italy.
The Risorgimento was a succession of violent battles and bloodier repressions. From it emerged Garibaldi, Mazzini, and Cavour - heroes of the nation. But who were their enemies? Who were the men, like the infamous King Bomba of Naples, who resisted the tide of unity?

This programme retells, with the vivid pictures of the day and in the actual settings of its major events, the story of those great years which had, even then, the force and form of legend.