Ian Rankin Investigates: Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde

Richard Downes
2007-06-16


8
57 min

Crime writer Ian Rankin investigates The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Starting with Robert Louis Stevenson's nightmare in September 1885, Rankin traces the roots of this story, which stretches back to Stevenson's childhood. Grave-robbers, hallucinatory drugs and prostitution all play their part in the disturbing account of Henry Jekyll's double-life, as Rankin's journey takes him into the yeasty draughts and unlit closes of the city that inspired the tale - Edinburgh.

Cast

Name Character Team
Ian Rankin Presenter/Himself Unowned
Ewen Bremner R.L. Stevenson Unowned
Boris Karloff Cabman John Gray (archive footage) Unowned
Robert Winston Unowned
Will Self Unowned
Richard Kaye Unowned
Tamara Kennedy Fanny Stevenson Unowned
Felicitas Macfie Unowned