The novel by Stephen Crane
Adapted for radio by H. A. L. Craig
Other parts played by Isla Cameron , Andrew Downie Jon Farrell. Brian O'Higgins
Michael Peake. Charles Richardson
P. G. Stephens , Bruce Wightman and members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company
Music composed by John Buckland conducted by Lawrence Leonard
Songs arranged by Freddie Phillips sung by Andrew Downie and Uriel Porter
Produced by John Gibson
The Red Badge of Courage, the story of a young soldier in the American Civil War, is one of the curiosities of American literature. Crane, who died in 1900 when he was only twenty-eight, had never seen a battle of any kind when he wrote it, though after the publication of this great imaginative work he was much in demand as a war correspondent. Another memorable point about Crane's story is that it was one of the very first of the innumerable American novels that have taken ' the little man ' as their hero.
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Band Music by William Schuman and Hoist on gramophone records