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3 December 2007

Sea Tales: The Open Boat: Ep 1 of 4

American novelist, poet and short story writer, best known for his novels, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and The Red Badge of Courage. He travelled to Cuba in 1897 as a war correspondent to report on the insurrection there, and ended in near disaster; the ship that he was travelling, Commodore, sank. The result was one of the world's great short stories, The Open Boat.

Author: Stephen Crane

Reader: Paul Goddard

Production

Producer: Anne Wynter