The Hunter and the Hill

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The Hunter and the Hill - the life of Robert Louis Stevenson

Drama: Biographical

BBC Radio 4 Extra - The Hunter and the Hill - the life of Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson's life in his own words, those of his mother and his wife, Fanny.

4 Extra Debut. Robert Louis Stevenson's life in his own words, those of his mother and his wife, Fanny. Starring Paul Young.

From middle-class Edinburgh to the middle of America; from the wynds and vennels of Edinburgh's old town to the politics of Samoa; from engineering studies to one of the great names in world literature.... 

Robert Louis Stevenson's life in his own words, those of his mother and his wife, Fanny.

Tom Wright's radio play is based on the diaries of Robert Louis Stevenson, Mrs Stevenson and Fanny.

Robert Louis Stevenson .... Paul Young
Mrs Stevenson .... Colette O'Neil
Fanny .... Diana Olsson

Director Hamish Wilson

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1991.

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