Parade, Parade
Precisely as the clock on Horse-guards strikes 11.0, The Queen turns her horse to face her soldiers. Then begins the most famous military spectacle in the world: the Birthday Parade, more familiarly Trooping The Colour.
But where, three months ago, were these men? What has an opera singer from Wandsworth got to do with it? Why did Second Lieutenant Rory Scott spend weeks strengthening his right arm in a gymnasium? And how did the late Earl Mountbatten of Burma, then aged 79, feel after two hours 12 minutes on a horse? Parade, Parade dispels the myth of toy soldiers. Written and narrated by Ian Wooldridge
Producer MICHAEL BEGG