Escape Artists

About this episode

This week, Margaret Drabble enjoys an enthralling biography of an adventure writer and his entourage; and Thea Lenarduzzi on the gothic mystery at the heart of her new book.

'Storyteller: The life of Robert Louis Stevenson', by Leo Damrosch

'The Tower', by Thea Lenarduzzi

Produced by Charlotte Pardy

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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