
Young Robinson Crusoe has a burning ambition to be a sailor Paying no attention to his parents' warnings he runs away to sea to embark on a series of thrilling adventures struggles with Barbary pirates a shipwreck & the extraordinary meeting with Man Friday Roy Marsden plays the older Robinson Crusoe looking back on a life of recklessness daring & adventure
- & the survival of twenty-eight years two months & nineteen days on a desert island Based on the real-life adventures of Alexander Selkirk Robinson Crusoe was one of the very first adventure stories to be published in English literature It remains as gripping today as it did on first publication in 1719 & this enthralling dramatisation perfectly evokes the excitement & adventure of the original book 2 CDs 2 hrs