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W. Empire pod UK.com. Half a league, half a league, gone wood., Gondwood. All in the Valley of Death, rode the 600.

Forward the Light Brigade, charge for the guns,

he said.

Into the Valley of Death, rode the 600.

When can their glory fade? Oh the wild charge they made all the world wondered

honor the charge they made honor the Light Brigade noble 600. Hello welcome to Empire with me, Nied Arlen.

I love me, William Darribble.

My fespian friend, William Darble, frustrated actors both.

Do you know what, William, and this is really an interesting poem,

it's a charge of the Light Brigade, but it is one of the only poems that my mother, who was born and brought up in India, educated in India, knows off by heart.

And I have to say it's one of the few that I learned that sort of prep school.

This one and daffodils was a thing.

So yes, she can recite it better than both of us,

let me tell you.

So look, the reason that we are starting with a poem is because the charge of the light brigade is where we are now.

We left you at the last episode. We are wonderful guests.

Well, Lido Viges joins joins us again eminent Russian historian and a man

who's written a quite brilliant book on the crimeian well prescient beyond

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