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Across the Plains

on BBC Radio 4 FM

by ALANNA KNIGHT with Brian Cox as Robert Louis Stevenson An account of Stevenson's journey across America, taken from his letters and journal. In pursuit of Fanny Osbourne , he undertook in August 1879 the rigours of many days spent in an emigrant train from New York to San Francisco. This was to lead to marriage with Fanny, which ended 14 years later, in the South Seas.
With LOLLY COCKERELL
ANTHONY HYDE, SEAN ARNOLD and JOHN CHURCH
Directed by PAT TRUEMAN

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Brian Cox
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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Fanny Osbourne
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Sean Arnold
Directed By:
Pat Trueman

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