Hell and McLafferty by ROSE TREMAIN with Blake and McLafferty have planned an expedition to the Malay Archipelago. The young Queen
Victoria's imagination is captured by the thought of the paradise birds for which the two men are searching. However. once they are deep in the jungle, away from order and civilisation, they discover that they are searching for more than the bird of paradise.
Directed by KAY PATRICK BBC Manchester
(David Suchet is an associate artist of the RSC)