1800: Money is shown to be the root of all evil, and Captain Jack Aubrey divides the men from the goats.

Patrick O'Brian's popular Napoleonic seafaring adventure.

Starring Michael Troughton and Nigel Anthony.

Dramatised by Roger Danes,

Jack Aubrey ...... Michael Troughton
Stephen Maturin ...... Nigel Anthony
Marshall .... Neville Jason
Watt …..Russell Floyd
David Richards/Mdme Lemercier ..... Richard Pearce
Ricketts/Issac Wilson …..Peter Whitman
Ragusan Captain …. Lloyd Johnston
Musgrave ..…. Dominic Letts
James Dillon ….. Charlie Simpson
Wilkinson/Fitzgerald/Amrican Cptn .…. David Jarvis
Babbington ….. Danny Kanaber (Child)
Chastity Baird …..Margaret John
Molly Harte …. Francis Jeater
Mercedes ….. Kristin Milward
Wilkinson ….. Don McCorkingdale

Director: Adrian Bean

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1995. Show less