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Episode 2

Warhorses of LettersSeries 3
Episode 2 of 4

Equine love is tested. Marengo faces being put to stud, whilst Copenhagen discovers literature. Stars Stephen Fry. From 2014.

More recently-discovered, passionate letters between Napoleon Bonaparte's mount, Marengo and the Duke of Wellington's Copenhagen.

Still cruelly sundered by fate despite the war having ended, Marengo is put rather unwillingly out to stud and discovers the overwhelming and exhausting joys of parenthood.

Meanwhile Copenhagen finds a new way of passing the time - writing racy horse fan-fiction, a genre for which he turns out to have a remarkable flair...

Continuing the world's first epistolary equine love story.

Marengo ..... Stephen Fry
Copenhagen ..... Daniel Rigby
Narrator ..... Tamsin Greig

Written on their behalf by Marie Phillips and Robbie Hudson.

Producer: Gareth Edwards

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2014.

15 minutes

Last on

Wed 11 Jun 202523:30
BBC Radio 4 Extra

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Credits

MarengoStephen Fry
CopenhagenDaniel Rigby
NarratorTamsin Greig
ProducerGareth Edwards
WriterMarie Phillips
WriterRobbie Hudson

Broadcasts

  • Sun 19 Jan 201419:15
    BBC Radio 4
  • Fri 24 Jan 201407:30
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Fri 24 Jan 201422:00
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Sat 25 Jan 201417:30
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Sun 26 Jan 201405:30
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Wed 11 Nov 201523:15
    BBC Radio 4
  • Sun 28 Aug 201622:30
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Tue 6 Mar 201823:00
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Wed 15 Apr 202022:30
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Wed 16 Nov 202223:45
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Wed 11 Jun 202523:30
    BBC Radio 4 Extra