Boswell's Galloping Farmers 1: The Fear of Fear
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Boswell's Galloping Farmers 1: The Fear of Fear
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A six part audio drama based on the memoir of Alexander (Sandy) Barclay, who fought in the infamous Gallipoli campaign of 1915.
By turns brutal, horrific and funny, the series tells of the real experiences of the men who volunteered as cavalrymen in the Ayrshire Yeomanry, only to have their horses taken away. They were retained in trench warfare and sent to Gallipoli (now in modern day Turkiye), where they were out manned, out gunned and outflanked at every turn.
But Sandy survived, and much later, recounts his experiences in this compelling drama series:
"Sixty years it's been. I can't quite believe it myself. You live your life; you think it's all behind you. But it's still there, inside you, the sights, the sounds, and the smells of it all. Aye. The smells.
I've read a lot about it, the Gallipoli campaign, — but I've never found anything that tells the story of what it was like for the ordinary ranker, the man behind the rifle and the grenade and what those of us that came out of it alive, lived through."