This is a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of one of the most famousadventure stories of all time, starring Roy Marsden as Robinson Crusoe.Young Robinson Crusoe has a burning ambition to be a sailor. Paying noattention to his parents' warnings he runs away to sea to embark on aseries of thrilling adventures: struggles with Barbary pirates, ashipwreck and the extraordinary meeting with Man Friday...Roy Marsdenplays the older Robinson Crusoe looking back on a life of recklessness,daring and adventure - and the survival of twenty-eight years, two monthsand nineteen days on a desert island. Based on the real-life adventures ofAlexander Selkirk, Robinson Crusoe was one of the very first adventurestories to be published in English literature. It remains as grippingtoday as it did on first publication in 1719, and this enthrallingdramatisation perfectly evokes the excitement and adventure of theoriginal book.