Further Adventures of Dr Syn

BBC Reading - 10 X 30 mins

Dr Syn is a former pirate turned smuggler who to the outside world appears to be the kindly old vicar of a parish on the remote Romney Marsh in southern England in the late 18th century. These episodes comprise a series of short stories setting out some of his and his gang's adventures.

Written in the 1930s by the professional actor and - according to his family, professional drinker - Russell Thorndike, brother of the late actress Dame Sybil Thorndike.