Serjeant Musgrave's Dance

About the show

A deserter sergeant and three soldiers arrive in a northern English mining town in 1879, pretending to recruit workers while intending to denounce colonial violence after the death of their comrade Billy Hicks. Musgrave prepares a public demonstration that escalates toward mass retaliation, but a death among the soldiers and Annie's intervention disrupt the plan; the dragoons arrest the survivors.