by JOHN ASHE Narrated by Kenneth Griffith
The 10th Bengal Lancers were known as Hodsons Horse. William Stephen Raikes Hodson (1821-1858) is remembered as the hero of the Indian Mutiny. which he did not survive: the very personification of the Victorian leader of men - a dashing, blondhaired lieutenant who died leading his men in the Siege of Lucknow,
Yet there was a dark side to this by no means conventional character: something even his contemporaries recognised as a whiff of sadism in the courage,... with and the voices of PATRICK BARR , PETER BALD-WIN , GRAHAM FAULKNER. MICHAEL MCSTAY and CHRISTIAN RODSKA Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol