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The story of some of the most dramatic naval battles in British history through the voices of ordinary sailors who took part in them.
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Trafalgar - by Nick Warburton.
 Listen to this programme (17/12/2003)
David Bamber plays Carter the surgeon's mate on the Victory.
Before the rest of the country remembers Nelson's great but fatal triumph of two hundred years ago (1805), this programme goes deep below deck on the Victory and follows the minute by minute fortunes of the ship's surgeons' mate who shared Nelson's home county of Norfolk and who is troubled with premonitions of death.
With historical commentaries from Andrew Lambert and Colin White.
Listen to this programme (17/12/2003)
Selected Reading
Nelson's Navy
by Brian Lavery,
Conway's History of Sail
The Wooden World: An Anatomy of the Georgian Navy
by N.A.M. Rodger,
Fontana
Trafalgar
by David Howarth ,
Weidenfeld & Nicholson history
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