Written and produced by Peter Watts One of the most remarkable feats of endurance on record took place last February, when four wounded men of a British long-range desert patrol were cut off from their unit in the Libyan desert. Faced with the choice of an eighty-mile walk to surrender to the Italians, or a three hundred-mile walk to a Free French post, they chose the latter.
It is the story of this heroic and successful exploit that listeners will hear this evening.