The collection of Kipling poetry, performed by Mark Redfield, with music by Jennifer Rouse, are taken mostly from "Barrack-Room Ballads". The poems mostly dramatize the concerns, yearnings, emotions, and thoughts of British soldiers at war, stationed in India, or at home-now forgotten by their fellow countrymen. Popular favorites in this recording eloquently and powerfully read by Mark Redfield include "Gunga Din", "The Last of the Light Brigade", and "If".
