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Tusitala - the Teller of Tales: Weir of Hermiston: Robert Louis Stevenson

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Continuing the season of plays and readings to mark the centenary of the death of Robert Louis Stevenson. Another chance to hear Robert Forrest's Sony Award-winning dramatisation of the unfinished novel often held to be Stevenson's masterpiece. It is a powerful love story set in 1813 in Edinburgh and the hills of the Scottish Border country.
(Rpt)
See feature: page 38

Contributors

Author:
Robert Louis Stevenson.
Dramatised by:
Robert Forrest
Music:
Iain Johnstone
Director:
Patrick Rayner
Louis:
Paul Young
Archie:
Forbes Masson
Kirstie:
Wendy Seager
Adam Weir:
Tom Watson
Older Kirstie:
Ann Scott Jones
Frank Innes:
Lian Brennan
Glenalmond:
Ralph Riach
Dand:
Benny Young
Clem:
Ian Briggs
Gib:
Iain Agnew
Hob:
James Bryce
Mrs Elliott:
Isabella Jarrett
Source: Radio Times

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