Emma Fielding reads Daphne Du Maurier's enduring and much loved classic - a story of love, daring and a painted pirate ship in a secret Cornish creek, and of the beautiful, roistering Lady Dona St Columb, who has met her match at last.

Today: A Fight to the End. The Frenchman has surprised his English foes, who now sit bound and locked in the bedrooms of Navron House. All except Rockingham, who has understood that Dona has finally found the love she's sought - and threatens to kill her.

Set on Du Maurier's beloved South Cornwall coast, in the secret creeks and inlets of the Helford river, where the curlews wade on the mud flats and the night jars churr at midnight, Frenchman's Creek is a song to another age where a traveller might glimpse a figure in the shadows, the moonlight glinting on his buckled shoe or the cutlass in his hand, and a cloaked woman might slip silently through the woods to meet her lover.

Reader Emma Fielding
Abridger Julian Wilkinson
Producer Di Speirs Show less