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Episode 2

MM Kaye's epic of love and war in 19th-century India. Ash is given a new mission that transforms his life. With Blake Ritson.

M M Kaye's epic of love and war, dramatised by Rukhsana Ahmad.

Ash returns to camp with the stolen carbines and is given a new mission which will transform his life.

Narrator ..... Vineeta Rishi
Ash ..... Blake Ritson
Gulbaz ..... Kaleem Janjua
Jhoti ..... Joseph Samrai
Kaka-Ji Rao ..... Paul Bhattacharjee
Biju Ram ..... Inam Mirza
Colonel ..... Sam Dale
Battye ..... Jude Akuwudike
Ambrose ..... Iain Batchelor
Clerk ..... Adeel Akhtar

The second of four omnibuses of this epic drama which spans the years between the Indian Mutiny in 1857 and the Siege of the British Mission in Kabul in 1879.

Directors: Marc Beeby and Jessica Dromgoole

First broadcast on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 in February 2011.

1 hour, 15 minutes

Last on

Mon 17 Feb 2020 01:00

Broadcasts

  • Sun 26 Jul 2015 06:00
  • Sun 26 Jul 2015 13:00
  • Mon 27 Jul 2015 01:00
  • Sun 16 Feb 2020 06:00
  • Sun 16 Feb 2020 13:00
  • Mon 17 Feb 2020 01:00