Warhorses of Letters, Series 2
by Marie Phillips & Robert Hudson (BBC 4, 2012)
A slighter affair than Series 1, though not objectively all that different (so perhaps just shorn of some novelty value). The historical allusions do seem fewer, the scripts favouring Marengo and Copenhagen’s relationship troubles. Humorous horse names continue to prove a highlight!
Warhorses of Letters, Series 1
by Marie Phillips & Robert Hudson (BBC 4, 2011)
Radio comedy purporting to present romantic correspondence between the warhorses, respectively, of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington! The humour is rapid-fire and erudite, based on historical allusions, equine anthropomorphism and Anglo-French disparities. Daniel Rigby and Stephen Fry voice the horses.