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The Last of the Mohicans & The Spy
The Last of the Mohicans & The Spy
Oct 6, 2024 6:45 PM

Author:James Fenimore Cooper,Rose Leslie,Helen McCrory,Garrick Hogan,Burn Gorman,Alex Waldmann,Clarence Smith,Alfredo Michelsen,Okon Jones,Full Cast

The Last of the Mohicans & The Spy

BBC Radio drama adaptations of two action-packed adventures by James Fenimore Cooper

A founding father of American literature, James Fenimore Cooper was one of America's first professional novelists, and a pioneer of both the Western and the historical romance. Included here are his 1826 masterpiece The Last of the Mohicans and his 1821 classic The Spy, widely considered the world's first espionage novel.

The Last of the Mohicans - 1757, and Britain and France are struggling for control of the New World. Caught between them are the tribes of the First Nations... Hawkeye is an American scout who lives with the American Indians and fights for the British. When the daughters of a British army officer are captured by a vengeful Huron chief while travelling to join their father, Hawkeye and his Mohican friends set out on a rescue mission... This gripping dramatisation of James Fenimore Cooper's epic is narrated by Garrick Hagon, stars Michael Feast as Hawkeye and Helen McCrory as Cora.

The Spy - New York State, 1778. Henry Wharton, a young soldier for the British in the American Revolutionary War, sneaks into no-man's land in disguise to spend an evening with his family. But their happy reunion is cut short when American troops surround the house. Can the mysterious peddler Harvey Birch provide Henry with a means of escape? Burn Gorman and Rose Leslie star in this thrilling tale of double agents and divided loyalties.

First published 1821 (The Spy) and 1826 (The Last of the Mohicans)

Production credits

Written by James Fenimore Cooper

The Last of the Mohicans

Narrator - Garrick Hagon

Hawkeye - Michael Feast

Major Heyward - Philip Franks

Cora - Helen McCrory

Alice - Naomi Radcliffe

General Munro - Russell Dixon

Chingachgook - Okon Jones

Uncas - Clarence Smith

Magua - Alfredo Michelsen

General Montcalm - John Jardine

David - Robert Whelan

Tamenund - Joe Speare

Dramatised by David Calcutt

Produced and directed by Michael Fox

Music: Trevor Allan Davies

First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 5-12 November 1995

The Spy

Harvey Birch - Burn Gorman

Frances - Rose Leslie

Henry - Alex Waldmann

Mr Wharton - James Lailey

Sarah - Francine Chamberlain

Mr Harper - Timothy Watson

Caesar - Richard Pepple

Peyton Dunwoodie - Simon Bubb

Captain Lawton - Gerard McDermott

Colonel Wellmere/Skinner - Adam Billington

Isabella Singleton - Victoria Inez Hardy

Colonel Martin - Paul Moriarty

Dramatised by DJ Britton

Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko

First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 22-29 January 2012

© 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

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