The Daniel Defoe BBC Radio Drama Collection by Daniel Defoe

The Daniel Defoe BBC Radio Drama Collection by Daniel Defoe

Starring Ben Miles as Defoe and Jessica Hynes as Elizabeth Atkins.This exciting new collection of reinvented tales will also include two bonus programmes about Daniel Defoe himself:Defoe: Merchant, Writer, Convict, Spy by Philip Palmer - A biographical drama about Defoes life, starring Ben Miles as Defoe and Niamh Cusack as his wife Mary.

Daniel Defoe was born in London in 1660. He worked briefly as a hosiery merchant, then as an intelligence agent and political writer. His writings resulted in his imprisonment on several occasions, and earned him powerful friends and enemies. During his lifetime Defoe wrote over two hundred and fifty books, pamphlets and journals and travelled widely in both Europe and the British Isles. Among his most famous works are Robinson Crusoe (1719), Moll Flanders (1722) and A Journal of the Plague Year (1722). Though Defoe was nearly sixty before he began writing fiction, his work is so fundamental to the development of the novel that he is often cited as the first true English novelist. He is also regarded as a founding father of modern journalism and one of the earliest travel writers. Daniel Defoe died in April 1731.

SKU	Unavailable
EAN	9781787533424
Title	The Daniel Defoe BBC Radio Drama Collection
Release date	2019-01-03
Format	Audiobook CD Unabridged
Studio	BBC Physical Audio
Condition	Unavailable

By (author)	Daniel Defoe
By (author)	Philip Palmer
Read by	Ben Miles