Broadcast: 4th August 1952

Starring: Michael Redgrave

Added: Jun 17 2008

Many years have passed since that terrible day when the probability of death and defeat stared Horatio Hornblower in the face but he can close his eyes now and still feel that exhaustion and faintness that he dared not let any man see. It was a nightmare pause in a nightmare battle two partially disabled ships drifting rapidly apart and each with no purpose than to patch its wounds and return to destroy the other…