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The Bottle Imp by RL Stevenson
Native Hawaiian Keawe buys a bottle promising love, fame and money - but there's a drawback. Stars David Rintoul and Tony Osoba.
"If any man buy this bottle, the imp is at his command. All that he desires - love, fame, money, are his." But there is one drawback....
Stars David Rintoul and Tony Osoba.
Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of the supernatural in the South Sea.
Dramatised by Donald Johnson.
Narrator .... David Rintoul
Keawe .... Tony Osoba
Kokua ..... Nina Wadia
American / Old Man .... Peter Whitman
Lopaka .... Ian Masters
Young Man .... Malcolm Ward
Bosun .... Don McCorkindale
Director: Matthew Walters
First broadcast on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 in December 1994.
On radio
Sun 7 Dec 2025
16:00
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
Broadcasts
- Sat 3 Jul 2010 18:30ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 7
- Sun 4 Jul 2010 00:30ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 7
- Sat 16 Jun 2012 18:30ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
- Sun 17 Jun 2012 00:30ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
- Fri 6 Sep 2013 18:30ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
- Sat 7 Sep 2013 00:30ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
- Sun 7 Dec 2025 16:00ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
- Mon 8 Dec 2025 00:00ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra