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The Noble Savage

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Diderot's Supplement au 'Voyage' de Bougainville
Newly translated by Rayner Heppenstall
Produced by Rayner Heppenstall
Louis Antoine de Bougainville's account of his visit to Tahiti (of which no English translation has been in print tor nearly two centuries) came out m 1771. This programme, which quotes from Bougainville, is based principally upon the set of dialogues written in the following year by the encyclopaedist and philosopher Denis Diderot in which he claimed to refer to material unpublished by Bougainville.

Contributors

Translator/Producer:
Rayner Heppenstall
The 'Philosophe':
Carleton Hobbs
His Friend:
William Eedle
Louis Antoine de Bougainville:
William Fox
Old Man:
Laidman Browne
Orou:
Lockwood West
The Chaplain:
Geoffrey Wincott
Source: Radio Times

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