India, 1886. The Venus has captured many a heart of an officer in the regiment, but her attraction is only skin-deep as one unlucky captain discovers.

Series of plays based on short stories written by Rudyard Kipling.

Dramatised by Ed Thomason.

Tom Gayerson... Alex Jennings
Kitty.... Moir Leslie
Watson... Michael Troughton
Colonel Hunphreys... Barry J Gordon
Teddy Reynolds... Lyndam Gregory
Dorothea Mountjoy... Frances Jeater
Tuppy Mason... Graham Seed
Arnold Davidson... Richard Tate
Gayerson Senior... Timothy Carlton
Gwen... Rachel Atkins
Ben Lindsay...John Evitts

Producer Adrian Bean

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1994. Show less