The last of three programmes written by NESTA PAIN based on the biography by ELIZABETH LONGFORD with Paul Rogers as Wellington 3: The Hero Comes Home
' It's a bad thing to be always fighting. It has been too much to see brave men cutting each other to pieces.'
Wellington was 46 when he triumphed over Napoleon at Waterloo and he never fought another battle. He lived on another 37 years, involving himself in the great political issues of the day and becoming, for a time. Prime Minister. He was a target not only for would-be assassins (the Cato Street Conspirators) but for the attentions of unmarried women of all kinds. He died in 1852 and was mourned as ' the greatest man that England ever knew.'
Narrator Noel Johnson
With MADI HEDD, LESLIE HERITAGE ANNE JAMESON , GODFREY KENTON DENIS MCCARTHY , DEBORAH PAIGE and STEPHEN THORNE
Producer ALAN HAYDOCK