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The Bottle Imp by RL Stevenson

Native Hawaiian Keawe buys a bottle promising love, fame and money - but there's a drawback. Stars David Rintoul and Tony Osoba.

"If any man buys this bottle, the imp is at his command. All that he desires - love, fame, money, are his."

Native Hawaiian Keawe is tempted to buy the bottle - but soon discovers there is one drawback...

Stars David Rintoul and Tony Osoba.

First published in 1891, Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of the supernatural in the South Sea.

Dramatised by Donald Johnson.

Narrator .... David Rintoul
Keawe .... Tony Osoba
Kokua ..... Nina Wadia
American / Old Man .... Peter Whitman
Lopaka .... Ian Masters
Young Man .... Malcolm Ward
Bosun .... Don McCorkindale

Director: Matthew Walters

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1994.

30 minutes

Last on

Mon 8 Dec 202500:00
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