A series of programmes on special war correspondents narrated by Rene Cutforth 1: Henty by WILL ALLAN with John Franklyn-Robbins as G. A. Henty
Although best known as the author of nearly 100 boys' books, George Henty was also the six-foot four-inch, 22 stone 'special' who fought his way into the Ethiopian capital in his bedroom slippers, showed Garibaldi how to box, and scandalised the authorities by hiring nubile native girls to carry his claret and champagne through the rain-soaked forests of Ashanti.
Other parts played by MANNING WILSON , DOUGLAS BLACKWELL , GARARD GREEN and STEPHEN
THORNE
Directed by MAURICE LEITCH