Robinson Crusoe

Based on the real-life adventures of Scottish shoemaker's son Alexander Selkirk, Robinson Crusoe was one of the very first adventure stories to be published in English literature. In this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatization starring Roy Marsden as the older Robinson Crusoe looking back on a life of recklessness, daring and adventure-and the survival of twenty-eight years, two months and nineteen days on a desert island-the story remains as gripping as it was upon first publication in 1719.