Series 3: Episode Three

Leo Damrosch

The awardwinning American master of biography talks about the subject of his most recent obsession: the Scottish traveller, South Seas adventurer and prose genius, Robert Louis Stevenson. The conversation brings to life an author that for many may have been relegated to the Victorian hinterland, but to the likes of Henry James and Italo Calvino? Stevenson’s ‘kinetic’ energy makes him one of the great storytellers of all time.