Largely forgotten today, Moonfleet's author, John Meade
Falkner, was a man of many paradoxes. The writer of the great children's adventure book was also chairman of one of the biggest armaments firms in the country. Using extracts from his novels and poetry, David Almond traces the author's daily train journey between Newcastle and Durham in an attempt to find the influences that shaped his writing. And why, allegedly, a foreign power might have stolen the draft of his fourth book.
Producer Philip Titcombe Repeated on Sunday at 12.15am