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Sound Escape TheatreAuthor: Jill Korn
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Boswell's Galloping Farmers 6: Proud Troopers
Episode 15
Tuesday, 4 November, 2025
Final episode of 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. By now, the soldiers are becoming aware that they are being evacuated, secretly and without letting the enemy know. Sandy himself is on the edge of exhaustion having gone for days and nights without sleep. Finally, he makes a mistake that could have him court-martialled and such is his state of mind that he can't even remember it. He and his fellows reflect on the campaign and they wonder — what was the point? In remembrance of Boswell's Galloping Farmers.
