Before the Battle
T is good to be safe this side of a critical moment of history. But usually we are not perceptive enough to realise just how critical such moments were-we have the verdict of history that they were surmounted, Alan Gibson’s programme Trafalgar, the Decisive Battle, was so successful in setting us down in the past that I emerged feeling distinctly grateful for the victorioys out-come-and also the richer for some well-documented information. Did you know that during the threat of invasion from Napoleon’s Grande Armée women in red coats were set to marching along the Dover cliffs to give the enemy the impression of strength? There was some leavening of fiction or what could have been fiction-Lady Hamilton sending Nelson back to duty and sounding so much the perfect navy wife, and the cabin boy who wished Nelson would stop hoisting signals and let everyone get on with the job-but the programme in general was a striking example of what can be done by the cunning arrangement of historical material.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 775, 28 May 1954, Page 10
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173Before the Battle New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 775, 28 May 1954, Page 10
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