GENRE: Radio drama, aired on BBC Radio 1987
DIRECTOR: Cherry Cookson
WRITER: Catherine Parker
PRODUCER: BBC Radio
CAST: Colin Firth [Rupert Brooke], Emma Piper [Ka Cox] et al.

THE RADIO PLAY is based on the british poet Rupert Brooke's adult life, focusing on his student years in Cambridge [where he met Ka Cox] and the years before he enlisted, 1913. He died in the Aegean, April 23, 1915. 

Rupert Brooke's early death turned him into a national figure of mythic stature in Britain.  1913 the American Photographer Sherrill Shell took some outstanding images of Brooke. Shell's scepticism - Brooke had been described as 'beautiful'- was lost in a sense of awe at the sheer charisma and spiritual radiance of Brooke. Shell wrote about him: "His hair, a golden brown with sprinklings of red, added considerably to the impression of vitality that was his in such generous measure". [Source: First World War Poets, 1997]

Actor/writer Colin Firth 1984, when he was about the same age as Brooke.		Poet Rupert Brooke 1913. Photo: National Portrait Gallery