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Defoe: Merchant, Writer, Convict, Spy

Through documentary and drama, Radio 4 put a spotlight on 18th-century writer Daniel Defoe

Through documentary and drama, Radio 4 put a spotlight on Daniel Defoe, the great 18th-century writer, chancer, pamphleteer, hack, spy, political meddler and merchant.

Ben Miles

Adrian Scarborough

David Hounslow

James Lailey

Sean Baker

Elizabeth Bennett

Clare Perkins

Brian Protheroe

Kirsty Oswald

Nick Underwood

Tom Forrister

Adie Allen

Edward Prout

Emma Harding

Daniel Defoe

Michael Butt

Defoe: A Journal of the Plague Year

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A Journal of the Plague Year

17/07/2016

BBC Radio 4 - Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year

Ben Miles stars as Daniel Defoe, writing his fictional documentary of the Great Plague.

Ben Miles stars as the chameleon writer, businessman, debtor and hack, Daniel Defoe. In 1722, Defoe begins his fictional journal of the Great Plague. Dramatised by Michael Butt.

As part of BBC Radio 4's Defoe season, Ben Miles stars as the chameleon writer, businessman, debtor and hack, Daniel Defoe. In 1722, hoping to keep his creditors at bay, Defoe begins his fictional 'journal' of the Great Plague of 1665. But he soon comes to be haunted by the people he is conjuring. 

Dramatised by Michael Butt

Directed by Emma Harding.

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