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' He flung his empty revolver down the slope....'

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With that defiant gesture of Sir Henry Newbolt's young officer on the North West Frontier of India. Robin Holmes introduces an anthology of patriotic and imperial poetry which until quite recently was required reading and learning in all our schools. with Hugh Burden and Valentine Dyall
Producer ROBERT CRADOCK
Dyall and the White Man's Burden: p 11. Camp 21. poems of a British soldier 1948: Fri, R3

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Introduces:
. Robin Holmes
Unknown:
Hugh Burden
Unknown:
Valentine Dyall
Producer:
Robert Cradock
Source: Radio Times

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