Afternoon Play

Patrick O'Brian's novel, set in 1804-5 in England, India and on the high seas, dramatised by Roger Danes. Jack Aubrey is ordered to convey a British ambassador to the East Indies - but in Bombay Stephen Maturin meets Diana Villiers, the one woman Jack would avoid at any cost. Starring David Robb as Aubrey and Richard Dillane as Maturin.