A dramatic poem on the life of Phoebe Hessel (1713-1821) by Margaret Stanley-Wrench with Beth Boyd , Bee Duffell
Ella Milne , William Eedle Simon Lack. Gabriel Woolf Produced by Terence Tiller
Phoebe Hessel , who as a. young girl fell in love with a private soldier and enlisted in the 5th Northumberland Fusiliers, is the subject of this dramatic poem written specially for the Third Programme.