Thanks alone to one corner of the Crimean peninsula, October 25th, 1854 was what journalists called a busy news day. Its main headline grabber was the spectacularly disastrous Charge of the Light ...
Alfred Lord Tennyson’s famous poem, The Charge of the Light Brigade, memorialized the bravery of British soldiers as they attacked Russian forces in the 1854 battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War ...
Daljit Nagra presents: The Charge of the Light Brigade by Tennyson read by Alan Badel (1979) and Lament for the Death of a Bullfighter (1960). Show more As part of BBC Radio 4 Extra’s All Request ...