India, 1880. Sergeant Terence Mulvaney is a dark horse "Good 'cause the regiment has to know me for the best soldier in it. Better 'cause I have to know myself for the worst man."

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

Dramatised by Ed Thomason.

Dinah...Teresa Gallagher
Mulvaney...Jack Klaff
Learoyd... Steve Hodson
Ortheris... Terry John
Shadd... Barry J Gordon
Ma Shadd... Marcella Riordan
Judy Sheehy... Cathy Sara
Ma Sheehy.... Elaine Claxton
Gayerson.... Alex Jennings
Reporter ... John Evitts
Dempsey ... Dominic Letts
Reynolds ... Lyndham Gregory
Watson ....Michael Troughton
Lascelles....Gareth Armstrong

Other parts played by Tom Bevan, Peter Kenny and Colin Thomas

Producer Adrian Bean

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