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Episode 2

Episode 2 of 4

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 BBC Radio 4 in February 2011.

1 hour, 15 minutes

Last on

Mon 17 Feb 202001:00
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