Music Feature

A Soldier's Song

Tuesday 7 November 2006 13:30-14:00 (Radio 4 FM)

Repeated: Saturday 11 November 2006 15:30-16:00 (Radio 4 FM)

Tim Healey talks to soldiers past and present about military songs through the ages. Many are crude, others are sentimental and nostalgic, and satire and complaint are constantly recurrent themes. The songs' value as a release from the tension of soldiering and as a way of bonding men who face continuous danger is enormous.

Contributors include Tim's father Denis Healey, who recalls life as a soldier in the often forgotten Italian campaign of the Second World War.

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