Speaker 1: Suspense, which is usually heard at this hour on Thursday nights,
Speaker 1: is taking its customary summer holiday. Suspense returns to the
Speaker 1: air seven weeks from tonight. On Thursday September one.
Speaker 2: You are deep in the remote hill country of Afghan
Speaker 2: face to face with the fierce Batan warriors. Trapped into
Speaker 2: a hopeless fight from which there seems no escape.
Speaker 1: We offer you escape designed to free you from the
Speaker 1: four walls of today, for a half hour of high adventure.
Speaker 1: To night we escaped to the north of India and
Speaker 1: to a battle long remembered. As Rudyard Kipling described it
Speaker 1: in his famous story The Drums of the Fore and Aft.
Speaker 3: When I came out from England to serve as a
Speaker 3: news correspondent with the British troops on the northwest frontier
Speaker 3: of India, I was attached to a regiment known as
Speaker 3: the fore and Fit, Princess hohenz Allen's own Royal light
Speaker 3: infantry fore and Fit, but now behind their backs men
Speaker 3: call them the poor and Aft. When certain words are
Speaker 3: shouted in front of other barracks, the troops may come
Speaker 3: out with belts and fists, but the mere whisper of
Speaker 3: fore and Aft brings out the men of this regiment
Speaker 3: with rifles in their hands and murder in their eyes.
Speaker 3: I think perhaps the story of how the Fore and
Speaker 3: Aft got its name may be really more the story
Speaker 3: of Jakin and piggy Loo, two of the toughest and
Speaker 3: most lovable little monsters who ever banged a drum or
Speaker 3: tooted a fife in a military band. They were both
Speaker 3: about the same age, with curly hair and the faces
Speaker 3: of cherubs, and inside were two souls that should have
Speaker 3: belonged to a pair of devils. I must have seen
Speaker 3: them before, of course, But the first occasion I can
Speaker 3: recall was at an informal court the Colonel was holding
Speaker 3: in the orderly room one morning. Piggy and Jakin were there,
Speaker 3: and they were in trouble as usual.
Speaker 4: All right, Sergeant read the charges, Yes, sir.
Speaker 5: The charge is made by one Smithers, a civilian, that,
Speaker 5: while walking back of the bazaar at six pm last evening,
Speaker 5: he was set upon without provocation by two drummers from
Speaker 5: the regimental band, known as Jakin and Piggylo, and by
Speaker 5: them was beaten into near insensibility.
Speaker 4: Well go on, Sargon.
Speaker 5: Mister Smithers states further that he was struck down for
Speaker 5: the two defendants, and while lying on the ground, was
Speaker 5: kicked repeatedly in the face and ribs, escaping with his
Speaker 5: life only through the timely arrival of a detachment of
Speaker 5: the guard.
Speaker 4: That's also, well, what about it, jakin, Piggey?
Speaker 3: Is this the truth? How?
Speaker 6: Yes, sir, we gave him what for? All right?
Speaker 4: That will do, Piggy, Yes, sir? All right, sergeant, turn
Speaker 4: them over to the bandmaster and have him tan their hides, Yes, sir,
Speaker 4: come on you begging.
Speaker 7: Your pardon, sir? But can't we say nothing in our
Speaker 7: own defense?
Speaker 6: Or what if a bluem and civilian said he'd report
Speaker 6: you for having a bit of a barney with a friend.
Speaker 6: Suppose he tried to get money out of you, sir, And.
Speaker 4: Then that will do Piggy? You were fighting?
Speaker 8: Well, only between ourselves, sir.
Speaker 6: We can't have no blink and civilians interfering with the
Speaker 6: business of our Majesty's regimen.
Speaker 4: All right, we forget the birching, But you're both can
Speaker 4: find a quarters for three days? But all right, dismissed
Speaker 4: and throw away that pipe and you got outside, Piggie
Speaker 4: or too young to be smoking?
Speaker 6: Yes, sir, come on, come on.
Speaker 4: And founded, Kipling. I don't know what to do with
Speaker 4: the lads. They're not really bad at heart, and they've
Speaker 4: never known any home of the army.
Speaker 3: Where did they come from?
Speaker 4: Colonel Jacin is from some back street in London, and
Speaker 4: Piggy lewis straight off the Calcutta dark and in both
Speaker 4: cases ancestry unknown.
Speaker 3: Well, they seem loyal enough to the regiment at any rate.
Speaker 4: They are unloyal to each other in their own way.
Speaker 4: I'm inclined to think sometimes they've got more rail spirit
Speaker 4: and all these new regulars put together.
Speaker 3: Aren't you a bit overloaded with Green troops?
Speaker 4: Colonel overloaded, my dear fellow. Ninety percent of the regiment
Speaker 4: were in Manchester factories or lack of farm six months ago.
Speaker 4: Can't make a soldier that length of time. Any chance
Speaker 4: of action very soon between ourselves, Kipling, we'll probably moved
Speaker 4: north in about ten days or not, to the front.
Speaker 4: Of course, we will give them a few months to
Speaker 4: shake down before they go into action.
Speaker 3: H it's a good idea.
Speaker 4: It's the only thing to do. There's one thing certain.
Speaker 4: This regiment is not ready for action yet. Only uh,
Speaker 4: don't write that back to your.
Speaker 3: Paper, But the gods who govern armies seldom choose the
Speaker 3: wisest plan. On the Afghan border, a large force of
Speaker 3: Patan guerrillas began massing near the Kaiber Valley, being held
Speaker 3: in Czech temporarily by a regiment of Highlanders and a
Speaker 3: regiment of native Gurkhas. A week later, the fore and Fit,
Speaker 3: a regiment totally unprepared for action, was ordered to march north,
Speaker 3: contact the two regiments and carry out a joint action
Speaker 3: to disperse the enemy. Parade ground and barracks began to
Speaker 3: hum with preparations for the coming campaign. Privates walked with
Speaker 3: a new swiper and the young officers nearly shot one
Speaker 3: another at pistol practice. But to Piggy and Jakie the
Speaker 3: excitement was like salt in an open would for the
Speaker 3: band was reduced to twenty men and the drummer boys
Speaker 3: who are being left behind.
Speaker 6: Blindie, I won't let him do it to me, Jake
Speaker 6: and me, what's gonna have a career in the army
Speaker 6: being left behind like an old boot?
Speaker 8: Oh why should you worry?
Speaker 7: Now you can stay here with that blooming.
Speaker 8: Girl of you.
Speaker 6: Oh what's a girl? When the regiments go into the front.
Speaker 6: And besides, how am I to explain to her about
Speaker 6: being left behind with the women?
Speaker 8: What you have to explain anything to her? For she's
Speaker 8: only thirteen.
Speaker 6: I've been telling her I'll get myself a medal when
Speaker 6: the first campaign came along. And how am I to
Speaker 6: do it?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 7: I heard in the barracks they're going to take Tom
Speaker 7: Kidd along to be the bugler.
Speaker 8: Course he's eighteen.
Speaker 6: Though he may be eighteen, but I can cluster the
Speaker 6: wall with him any day, and with one hand behind
Speaker 6: my back.
Speaker 7: Perhaps we could bash him round a bit, or just
Speaker 7: enough so as he can't bugle no more. You could
Speaker 7: hold his hands piggy, and then I'll kick him in.
Speaker 6: No, no, no, he still wouldn't take us. Our reputations
Speaker 6: ain't what they might be, you know.
Speaker 7: Oh well for myself, I just as Leaves stay here
Speaker 7: and do a bit of loafing with our.
Speaker 6: Own regiment going into action. Why does leaf have no loo?
Speaker 8: Who's coming? It's the blooming colonel itself, and so.
Speaker 6: It is all alone, you know, check him, my boy.
Speaker 6: I think I'll go and have a little talk with
Speaker 6: the colonel. You wait here?
Speaker 3: Have you come?
Speaker 6: Darf with eavey catch my pipe.
Speaker 9: BlimE me.
Speaker 8: Now we're in for it.
Speaker 6: Again, begging the colonel's pardon, sir.
Speaker 4: Well, Piggy the drums in revolt.
Speaker 6: No, sir, I'd like the pleasure of a.
Speaker 3: Word with you, sir.
Speaker 4: All right, go ahead and have it, sir.
Speaker 6: If you thought the world and all of your regiment
Speaker 6: and it was going off to active service without you, sir,
Speaker 6: then how'd you feel?
Speaker 4: I uh hm, I I'm afraid I feel a bit
Speaker 4: left out of things.
Speaker 6: That's how Jaykin and May feels about it, sir.
Speaker 4: No idea what a campaign can be? Like, Piggy, Why
Speaker 4: you'd flop in your face in the first twenty.
Speaker 6: Minds No, we wouldn't, sir. We're good at marching. I'll
Speaker 6: have tell my girl I'd bring a back a metal
Speaker 6: I've just got to go.
Speaker 4: I see, huh. Think you could pass a physical.
Speaker 6: Not the slightest doubt of it, sir. We're both of
Speaker 6: us very healthy for our age.
Speaker 4: All right. I suppose it's unheard of for a regiment
Speaker 4: on the border to take drummers along on active service.
Speaker 4: But if you can pass the medical officer, you can
Speaker 4: both go alive.
Speaker 6: BlimE me, we're going to the fan I mean thank you, sir,
Speaker 6: I mean Jacin Jakin Jakin.
Speaker 3: The regiment marched out of the station two days later,
Speaker 3: and all those left behind lined the road that led
Speaker 3: past the parade ground. The band stood by and played
Speaker 3: them out, waiting to fall in at the rear of
Speaker 3: the column. And although Jakin perspired and beat on his
Speaker 3: drum manfully to cover up, it was quite evident that
Speaker 3: Piggy Loo was not with the band. Jakin kept glancing
Speaker 3: at the cedar hedge behind him, and I had a
Speaker 3: pretty good idea why Piggy was being detained.
Speaker 9: It just got to be awful, careful and take real
Speaker 9: good care of yourself, Peggy, yourself, Venturesome. I'd worry all
Speaker 9: the time.
Speaker 6: It's hard, Chris, I'll grant you it's hard. But what's
Speaker 6: the men to do when his regiment's called on active service?
Speaker 10: Now?
Speaker 6: Yeah, give us another kiss? Oh Piggy, it's more like you.
Speaker 9: If you'd just idea like you'd ought to, you could
Speaker 9: have had as many as you want.
Speaker 6: And if I'd done that, Chris, you wouldn't think anything
Speaker 6: of me like.
Speaker 9: As not, but will at least I'd have aired you
Speaker 9: with me, Piggy, and all the thinking in the world.
Speaker 9: Ain't like kissing, and.
Speaker 6: All the kissing in the world. I ain't like having
Speaker 6: a medal to wear on the front of your coat.
Speaker 9: Cares about a medal. Just stay with me, Piggy darling,
Speaker 9: and I love you true forever.
Speaker 6: Aren't you going to do that anyhow? Chris?
Speaker 8: You said you was.
Speaker 9: Of course I am, but it had been not more
Speaker 9: comfortable of this idea.
Speaker 6: Don't take on about it, Chris. I'll be coming back
Speaker 6: and I'll marry you some day, tin. I promise win
Speaker 6: years and years.
Speaker 9: Perhaps you'll be careful wa to Piggy.
Speaker 6: Man has to take his chances in the army, Chris.
Speaker 6: But if it happens, I'll be thinking, are you right.
Speaker 3: To the last?
Speaker 6: Don't talk like them. Now, give us a kiss.
Speaker 9: Piggy, Come on over here, we're about to fall in.
Speaker 6: I got to go now, Chris, my love. Don't you
Speaker 6: be forgetting me? Oh?
Speaker 9: I won't ever, Piggy. Yeah, I made something for you
Speaker 9: to take with you.
Speaker 4: What is it?
Speaker 9: It's a button bag. All the regular soldiers carry them.
Speaker 9: I put some of my air in it.
Speaker 6: No, it's awful kind of you, Chris.
Speaker 9: How it? I made so well? But I didn't want
Speaker 9: nobody else to help me, not even ma'am.
Speaker 6: I'll carry it right over my heart so long as
Speaker 6: I'm alive.
Speaker 9: Oh, don't say things like that.
Speaker 6: Piggy, give us one more kiss now, can't stay no longer. Oh, Biggie, goodbye, Chris,
Speaker 6: take care of yourself.
Speaker 9: Goodbye, Piggy. Be careful, I'll be careful.
Speaker 6: I'll be coming round to see a Christma love when
Speaker 6: I get back from the war.
Speaker 7: Bige, Well, it's about time, and lucky we are not
Speaker 7: both in trouble here. Stick this blinking fife in your
Speaker 7: ugly mouth and blow on it. Petty coat chaser.
Speaker 6: Just bait a drum soldier before I decide to beat
Speaker 6: on your ruddy head a bit Tella Kenly can shove off.
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Speaker 1: And now we returned to the second act of escape
Speaker 1: and to Night's story drums of the fore and Aft.
Speaker 1: And so the fore and Fit went north to the wars,
Speaker 1: first by troop train and then on foot when the
Speaker 1: last rail had left them with a seven day route
Speaker 1: march before they'd reached the front up ahead. And during
Speaker 1: those seven weary days the regiment began to crack. The
Speaker 1: men went hardened to the long miles of marching, and
Speaker 1: they found themselves dead tired before noon.
Speaker 3: Of each day. The food was bad and the water
Speaker 3: was worse, And on the second day the snipers started in.
Speaker 3: They would hide in the tumble rocks of the low
Speaker 3: brown hills beside the road and wait for the column
Speaker 3: to pass. The first sign of one would be a
Speaker 3: flash and a pop of smoke, and some men on
Speaker 3: the long line of march would die without ever seeing
Speaker 3: the enemy would kill him. And even at night, the
Speaker 3: tired and nerve shattered men could find no rest. If anything,
Speaker 3: the night hours in the dark tents were a good
Speaker 3: deal worse than the daylight hours on the dusty road.
Speaker 7: Oh, shatter, piggy, I've got to get myself some sleep, as.
Speaker 6: If I ain't much just as far as you have.
Speaker 6: Oh my feet's fair killing.
Speaker 7: Me your It serves your bloody well right for getting
Speaker 7: us into this. We could be back in the barracks now,
Speaker 7: living on the fat of the lane and half.
Speaker 6: Way to becoming musicians like us, not.
Speaker 7: In which case are be sleeping in a regular bed
Speaker 7: and having some decent.
Speaker 8: Grub to me for once.
Speaker 6: I'm afraid you're not the army type, Jake, And perhaps
Speaker 6: I shouldn't have talked my friend the colonel into letting
Speaker 6: you come, come in and take a belt to you, Yes, sir.
Speaker 7: Yeah, don't have to go calling a blinking sergeant.
Speaker 6: Sir, there ain't no arm in it. That's another one
Speaker 6: of our centuries. Got yourself killed out there. And button
Speaker 6: bakers can sneak up in the dark without making a sound,
Speaker 6: and they take their bloody long knives and sloss some
Speaker 6: opening at I wonder.
Speaker 8: What they look like, Piggy, these are what's.
Speaker 6: It, matty? When we can't even carry rafis I skin out,
Speaker 6: jac And look at this in my hand? How some
Speaker 6: man to get itself a medal when all he's got
Speaker 6: for a weapon is a bloom In.
Speaker 3: Five, late afternoon of the seventh day, weary, savage and sick,
Speaker 3: their uniforms dulled and unclean, the foreign fit rendezvous with
Speaker 3: the Highland Regiment.
Speaker 11: Lads, here comes the new regiment, the foreign fit, the
Speaker 11: foreign fit, eh, and may I ask you what is
Speaker 11: it their fit?
Speaker 3: For some of the men bore wounds and some with
Speaker 3: stretcher cases, but the real casualty was the regimental morale.
Speaker 3: These roar recruits had marched out of their station in
Speaker 3: the south of the band play, and somehow they'd imagined
Speaker 3: they might march gloriously into battle the same way. But
Speaker 3: no band played when they slugged a stop at the
Speaker 3: brigade encampment.
Speaker 7: M blimey, look at them chips over there, wearing petticoat.
Speaker 6: I'll lotch you now their islanders me, lad am I
Speaker 6: the de man at best take no liberties with him.
Speaker 7: Oh well, picky, do you think we found the ruddy
Speaker 7: wall at last?
Speaker 6: What else? Ain't that a full blown general over there
Speaker 6: talking to our.
Speaker 4: Colonel had a bit of a rough time of it
Speaker 4: coming down, sir. My men have been rather more than
Speaker 4: no chance for fair return. They only want to go
Speaker 4: someplace where they can see what's before.
Speaker 11: I understand, Colonel. I wish I could let you have
Speaker 11: a few days to recover but I simply can't spare
Speaker 11: just now.
Speaker 4: Oh, there'll be no need of it served, or we're
Speaker 4: wanting is one good night rest?
Speaker 11: I see, well, you can pitch your camp next to
Speaker 11: the islander's colonel, and I suggest you call a general
Speaker 11: inspection before dark. We plan to attack the enemy position
Speaker 11: at dawn, very good time.
Speaker 8: So it's active service you wanted, Piggy.
Speaker 7: I how much longer do you think they're going to
Speaker 7: keep us standing here with a bloody daylight barely coming
Speaker 7: over the hills.
Speaker 6: Just take a look at them. For tarans out there
Speaker 6: on the plane.
Speaker 7: Must be eight of them to one of us right
Speaker 7: down the line.
Speaker 6: It makes it that much easier to get a medal.
Speaker 7: Now, how do you hope to get a medal? Maybe
Speaker 7: you're going to blow their bloody ear drums in with
Speaker 7: your little five more.
Speaker 6: Like it will not even have a chance to see
Speaker 6: how the baggers look. The bend, as you might have heard,
Speaker 6: is going to wheel and retire when we reach them
Speaker 6: rocks out there, while the regular soldiers go in and
Speaker 6: attack the enemy.
Speaker 7: Which I might say is exactly the way I'd plan
Speaker 7: it myself. I got no fondness for being sliced up
Speaker 7: like a leg of lamb. Now you got no spirit
Speaker 7: jiking them as one spirit can have it as for me, I, oh,
Speaker 7: here we.
Speaker 6: Go, piggy chiking. Ready, now all right, watch yourself now
Speaker 6: jackin and step lively. Just keep your eye on me,
Speaker 6: and I'll make a bloody hero out of you.
Speaker 3: Only someone had blundered somewhat, had misread an order, and
Speaker 3: the fore and Fit moved out onto the plane to
Speaker 3: attack the enemy force alone, foreign fits moving earth a
Speaker 3: clumper rock, The band wheeled and halted and continued to play,
Speaker 3: while the ranks opened to form a skirmish line and
Speaker 3: moved slowly ahead. Old, steady lad is we.
Speaker 11: Have any orders to move out, and therefore we'll stand
Speaker 11: fast than loop.
Speaker 3: If the fore and Fit wishes to fight like hogs,
Speaker 3: then five hundred yards range from the enemy line, the
Speaker 3: regiment began firing at will, at will and wildly. In
Speaker 3: a few minutes they've thrown away half of their ammunition
Speaker 3: and blinded themselves with their own smoke. And farther out
Speaker 3: on the plane, the Afghan army stood quietly, firing occasional,
Speaker 3: well aimed bullets into the milling her green troops, English fools,
Speaker 3: They're bunching like a herd sud limb the main body
Speaker 3: of the Afghan troops. A small band of about fifty
Speaker 3: Batan warriors charged forward and fell upon the started Englishman.
Speaker 3: These were the Ghazis, the suicide squad, always thrown out
Speaker 3: ahead of the Afghan army before any main test of strength.
Speaker 3: Swinging their long, heavy knives, they struck the close packed
Speaker 3: British line. Name of heaven, don't they extend into open order?
Speaker 3: They'll make a fip waverard, wheeling away from the vicious
Speaker 3: slashes of the murderous bonehandled knives. Rallied for an instant
Speaker 3: and held, then broke, turned tail and ran.
Speaker 6: When you look at them ladders they turn in the run,
Speaker 6: I might say they make bitter speed to the rear
Speaker 6: than they made to the poor.
Speaker 3: They're anything but poor, and pick no more.
Speaker 6: Likely to call them the poor and af It'll.
Speaker 2: Take him a long tangle of that one down at
Speaker 2: the fallen half.
Speaker 3: The regiment took no thought for the wounded, for the
Speaker 3: men left behind, nor did they stop until they jammed
Speaker 3: in the past that led up to the hill, and
Speaker 3: the band too was carried along with them in their
Speaker 3: headlong flight. All the band except two men.
Speaker 7: Piggy, you think them bloody petan beggars can see us
Speaker 7: hiding here in the rocks.
Speaker 6: Of course, not well, I hope you're right, blooming cowards
Speaker 6: running away. And weren't that a fine way for a
Speaker 6: British regiment.
Speaker 7: To wake and we done the same thing, we'd not
Speaker 7: be left behind ere the way we are?
Speaker 6: And what's got into you? You're comfortable, aren't you?
Speaker 8: I may be comfortable, but I ain't easy in my mind.
Speaker 6: Put a sack in it. Hey, look, somebody's dropped the
Speaker 6: canteen here. Maybe it's got rum in it?
Speaker 7: Well, now, how can you hope to tell by shaking it?
Speaker 6: Now? Keep your dirty hands all fit. I'll do the
Speaker 6: trying it out.
Speaker 8: Well is it, Piggy?
Speaker 3: Is it?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 6: It's water here? Have yourself a free drink on her, majesty,
Speaker 6: drummer board.
Speaker 3: Jakin.
Speaker 6: Look in pretent bakers is stopping back of their own lines.
Speaker 6: They keep your head down.
Speaker 7: Well, well, now, with the blooming enemy retiring, perhaps our
Speaker 7: lads will come out and.
Speaker 6: Rescue them, the bloody cowards.
Speaker 7: Or don't they know the Bretons ain't chasing them no more.
Speaker 6: They can't see nothing but their own precious skins. Fun. Oh,
Speaker 6: maybe we ought to give them a little music, show
Speaker 6: them it's all nice and cozy out here.
Speaker 7: Now, what do you want us to go and get
Speaker 7: our blinking selves shot?
Speaker 6: They ain't no enemy close by. Now, come on, I
Speaker 6: can take up your bloody drum mate.
Speaker 7: Here, are you positive there was only water in that canting?
Speaker 2: Hah?
Speaker 6: So like as not. You're a coward too, the same
Speaker 6: as the rest of the regiment.
Speaker 8: I'll show you use a coward.
Speaker 7: Piggy, my boy, here, you take your bloom in fife
Speaker 7: there and stick it in your ugly face.
Speaker 6: Well now, so yeah, I've got a bitter spirit. Maybe
Speaker 6: I'll speak to my old friend the colonel about I'll
Speaker 6: shut up and start blowing. You're ready, ready, all?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 6: Where is it? We're going to march to Piggy back
Speaker 6: and forth a time or two in full sight. Then
Speaker 6: we're waiting the rocks for the battle to stop. Are
Speaker 6: they watching us?
Speaker 8: They're watchin us?
Speaker 7: Oh yes, they're watchiness all right.
Speaker 3: Time held still, and even the Afghun snow papers forgot
Speaker 3: their weapons while two as watched the tiny red coated
Speaker 3: figures marching back and forth on the battlefield alone.
Speaker 11: And I'll tell you for sudden. There's a pair of
Speaker 11: brave laddies down there, all.
Speaker 5: Right, ju bleaning cards leve them out there on him,
Speaker 5: two children, the only brave men in the regiment.
Speaker 3: The men of the fore and Art lifted their heads,
Speaker 3: fingered their rifles and stared without moving, And out there
Speaker 3: on the silent plane, back and forth marched Jakin and Piggy.
Speaker 10: Have we let her.
Speaker 7: Played these blooming instruments all day long? Wait the blighters
Speaker 7: ever going.
Speaker 9: To come down?
Speaker 6: Shut up, Jakin? Keep playing?
Speaker 8: Well?
Speaker 7: All I might say is I shouldn't I ever let
Speaker 7: you talk me into this? Hey had out for active
Speaker 7: service anyway way, I should bloody well feel more comfortable
Speaker 7: if I was back in the bat.
Speaker 11: I was backing.
Speaker 6: Jakin.
Speaker 10: Jakin, who you blacing?
Speaker 6: Even lightest? You've killed Jakin? All right, I'll show you the.
Speaker 10: Friday you come.
Speaker 6: On, you blooming colins.
Speaker 3: Two armies saw them die from the snipers bullets. Two
Speaker 3: armies and the men of the four and act all.
Speaker 4: Right, men of the regiment, what now? Those two at
Speaker 4: least were brave enough to know how to die.
Speaker 10: Expanded this time we attacked, and there'll be no tardy away.
Speaker 11: Look at them, laddies, the foreign after join fight.
Speaker 2: I look at them run That art should have been
Speaker 2: done the first time.
Speaker 11: Hye, laddies, And now is the time for us orders
Speaker 11: or no fears?
Speaker 6: Where we join the fight company, prepare to charge.
Speaker 4: Charge.
Speaker 3: Late afternoon saw the Afghan army wiped out, and the
Speaker 3: general explained to me how everything had gone according to
Speaker 3: his plan and how he hoped I'd cable that back
Speaker 3: to my paper in London right away. I turned and
Speaker 3: left him then and walked across the silent battlefield, walked
Speaker 3: out among the silent dead. The two tiny figures lay
Speaker 3: quite close together, Jakin fallen across his broken drum, and
Speaker 3: piggylo with the fight still clenched in his dirty fist.
Speaker 3: A bulge under his tunic caught my eye, and I
Speaker 3: reached in and drew out a button bag embroidered crudely
Speaker 3: with the name Chris.
Speaker 9: I mde it for you myself, Piggy Darling, and I've
Speaker 9: put some of my own air inside of it.
Speaker 6: We're it right next to my heart, Chris, so long
Speaker 6: as I'm alive.
Speaker 3: I thought how Chris would soon forget, and how the
Speaker 3: world's memory is no longer than hers. The sun was
Speaker 3: sinking away in the west. The button bag in my
Speaker 3: hand was soaked damp, and over the left breast of
Speaker 3: Piggy's grimy uniform, over the pocket where decorations are usually worn,
Speaker 3: a brighter red stain had spread out through the coarse wool,
Speaker 3: looking very much like the bright red ribbon that goes
Speaker 3: with the metal.
Speaker 1: Escape is produced and directed by Norman mac donnell. To
Speaker 1: night we have presented Drums of the Fore and Aft
Speaker 1: by Rudyard Kipling, adapted for radio by Less Crutchfield. Featured
Speaker 1: in the cast were Ben Wright as Rudyard Kipling, Hugh
Speaker 1: Thomas as Piggyloo, and Terry Kilburn as Jakin, with Colleen Collins,
Speaker 1: Ramsay Hill, Alec Harford, Wilms Herbert and Tudor Owen. Special
Speaker 1: music arranged and conducted by Wilbur Hatch.
Speaker 2: Next week you are hanging by your fingertips on the
Speaker 2: sheer face of a nice cliff, suspended one thousand feet
Speaker 2: above instant death, with your strength running out and with
Speaker 2: no chance for escape.
Speaker 1: Next week we bring you in adventure tale Action by C. E.
Speaker 4: Montague.
Speaker 1: Be sure to tune in at the same time next
Speaker 1: week when once again we offer you escape. In just
Speaker 1: a few minutes, Casey crime photographer embarks upon another adventure
Speaker 1: with death. Tonight's adventure is called crazy Like a Fox.
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