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  • Published: 7 August 2006
  • ISBN: 9781405679602
  • Imprint: BBC DL
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 2 hr 3 min
  • Narrators: Jack Shepherd, Buster Merryfield, Iain Cuthbertson
  • Pages: 122

Treasure Island




Jack Shepherd and Iain Cuthbertson star in a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation.

Jack Shepherd and Iain Cuthbertson star in a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the classic swashbuckling tale. Having outwitted a band of pirates to obtain a map disclosing the whereabouts of Captain Flint's treasure, Young Jim sets sail for Treasure Island. But the crew of the Hispaniola are not what they seem. Revealing themselves as another gang of cut throats, led by the villainous Long John Silver, they are hell-bent on seizing both the ship and the treasure. Will they succeed? The struggle of Young Jim and his friends as they do battle on the high seas is thrillingly played out in this full-bodied production starring Jack Shepherd, Iain Cuthbertson, Buster Merryfield and James McPherson as young Jim Hawkins.

  • Published: 7 August 2006
  • ISBN: 9781405679602
  • Imprint: BBC DL
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 2 hr 3 min
  • Narrators: Jack Shepherd, Buster Merryfield, Iain Cuthbertson
  • Pages: 122

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Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh in 1850. The son of a prosperous civil engineer, he was expected to follow the family profession but was finally allowed to study law at Edinburgh University. Stevenson reacted forcibly against the Presbyterianism of both his city's professional classes and his devout parents, but the influence of Calvinism on his childhood informed the fascination with evil that is so powerfully explored in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Stevenson suffered from a severe respiratory disease from his twenties onwards, leading him to settle in the gentle climate of Samoa with his American wife, Fanny Osbourne.

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