Master and Commander

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Patrick O'Brian - Master and Commander: 1. The Question of Preferment

Patrick O'Brian - Master and Commander

1. The Question of Preferment

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Captain Jack Aubrey awaits the verdict in his court martial for the loss of his ship.

Gibraltar, 1800: Captain Jack Aubrey awaits the verdict in his Court Martial for the loss of his ship. Stars Michael Troughton.

September 1800, Rosia Bay, Gibraltar. Newly commissioned, Jack Aubrey nervously awaits the verdict in his Court Martial for the loss of his ship, the Sophie.

Patrick O'Brian's popular Napoleonic seafaring adventure, first published in 1969. 

Starring Michael Troughton and Nigel Anthony.

Dramatised in six parts by Roger Danes. 

Jack Aubrey    ......    Michael Troughton 
Stephen Maturin    ......    Nigel Anthony
Molly Harte    ......    Frances Jeater
Harte    ......    Lloyd Johnson
Queeney    ......    Margaret John
Lord Keith    ......    Gavin Muir 
Young Jack / David Richards    ......    Richard Pearce
Makepeace    ......    Derek Waring 
Mercedes    ......    Kristin Howard 
Watt    ......    Russell Floyd 
Young Ricketts    ......    Tom Bevan 
Williams    ......    Derek Waring
Babbington    ......    Danny Kanaber

Director: Adrian Bean.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1995.

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