Herman Melville: A BBC Radio Drama Collection: Three Full-Cast Dramatisations including Moby-Dick

BBC adaptations of three works by Herman Melville, plus bonus biographical programmes about his life and work

Born in 1819, Herman Melville spent his early twenties at sea. He wrote four successful novels based on his experiences, but his subsequent fiction failed to sell, and he spent the rest of his life in literary obscurity. It was not until 100 years after his birth that his works were rediscovered, and Moby-Dick is now recognised as one of the great American novels. Adapted for BBC rad...