13

Kim’s Game

By Rudyard Kipling

Kim O’Hara starts his apprenticeship as a British spy with a little competition.

14

Eddi’s Service

By Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling’s poem about St Wilfrid’s chaplain and an unusual Christmas congregation.

15

‘The Overland Mail’

By Rudyard Kipling

A tribute to the postal workers of British India, and to the kind of empire they helped to build.

16

‘Recessional’

By Rudyard Kipling

A heartfelt plea for humility at the height of Britain’s Empire.

17

Six Honest Serving-Men

By Rudyard Kipling

A professional journalist and author recognises that he has met his match

18

‘Sussex’

By Rudyard Kipling

A meditation on our instinctive love for the place in which we live.