Gone For A Soldier

Donnellan's ambitious (and at the time controversial) two-parter exploring the history of the British military.

An ambitious two-part survey of the British infantry from Waterloo to Belfast (‘how they lived, and why they died’), Gone For a Soldier does nothing to disguise its anger towards the military top brass or the whole business of war. Pieced together from soldiers’ own diaries, letters and songs, the programme attracted a barrage of criticism on broadcast and it marked the beginning of the end for Donnellan at the BBC.

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