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To Build a Fire

on BBC Two England

A new production from the team that made the award-winning film The Goshawk: based on Jack London's dramatic short story about a man facing the terrifying pros of freezing to death. His only companion is a wild husky dog.
The year is 1898, the time of the Gold Rush, and the scene a remote area of the Klondike. For this man, his very life hung on his ability To Build a Fire.

(Colour)

Contributors

Based on the short story by:
Jack London
Producer:
David Cobham
The Storyteller:
Orson Welles
The Chechaquo:
Ian Hogg
The Husky Dog:
null Pepper

BBC Two England

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