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' The Tale of Tod Lapraik ' by Robert Louis Stevenson with some Stevenson songs and verse
The story-teller, C. R. M. Brookes. The singer, Alexander Carmichael
Presented by Christine Orr
Robert Louis Stevenson , that Rreat Victorian novelist, poet, and traveller
-and master of prose-wrote one of the best of Scottish short stories when he put this eerie tale of an East Lothian warlock into the mouth of Andy Dale , Keeper of the Bass
Rock, and jailer to David Balfour during his captivity on that island. The story is set in the days of the early eighteenth century.

Contributors

Unknown:
Tod Lapraik
Unknown:
Robert Louis Stevenson
Unknown:
C. R. M. Brookes.
Singer:
Alexander Carmichael
Presented By:
Christine Orr
Presented By:
Robert Louis Stevenson
Unknown:
Andy Dale
Unknown:
David Balfour

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