The two-part Radio 4 drama, called Stevenson In Love, portrays “significant journeys” the writer made, and how his feelings for a woman who later became his wife affected him on his travels.
In the first part, called Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes, the drama follows Stevenson in France. Here he kept a journal that was to become his travelogue from which the drama takes its name.
In the second part, The Amateur Emigrant, Stevenson catches a steamer to New York and then undertakes a train journey across America, ending in California.
The drama has been written by Mike Harris. Part one will be broadcast on Radio 4 on October 26, with part two on October 27.
The cast also features Lizzy McInnerny.

DOCTOR Who duo David Tennant and Billie Piper will join forces on screen for the first time since their stint in the hit sci-fi series.

The pair are to star in five-part series Love Life, which will be unveiled by BBC drama boss Ben Stephenson at the Edinburgh TV Festival this weekend.

Love Life, also starring Jane Horrocks, David ­Morrissey and Ashley Walters, will focus on five affairs in one town.

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While lounging around his West End dressing room waiting to go on-stage to perform in Much Ado About Nothing, former timelord Tennant, talked Total Film through how he’s been keeping busy since stepping away from the Tardis.

First up he’s starring as a tight-trousered Las Vegas illusionist in the 3D update of Fright Night, then he’ll lend his voice to Aardman’s latest The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists (released 28 March 2012).

“What a joy to be part of that. You feel a little bit of a cheat to take any credit for it, but really the stars of this film are the animators. What they can make a piece of plasticine is quite remarkable.”

“The other day I did my last session on the film and they brought the little model of [my character] Darwin down so I have shaken hands the plasticine me – which was strangely thrilling.”

Also strangely thrilling is Tennant’s next film project which he hopes to start work on by the end of the year. But he’s sworn to secrecy on details:

“It will be something entirely new to me – the process will be something I’ve never done before. That’s exciting and a little bit scary – and I’ve already said too much!”

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Daniel Craig and David Tennant will be two of the stars on the red carpet when The O2 plays host to a huge film festival in August.

James Bond star Craig’s latest film Cowboys and Aliens will get its UK premiere at the Empire Presents Big Screen event on August 12. Tennant’s new flick, Fright Night, follows suit on August 14.

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It’s all the rage in Hollywood to splash smelling salts on old ’80s spookfests and hope audiences will show up for the ride. Fright Night, though, is one horror revival it’s okay to get excited about. Not only was the original a comedy-horror favourite that should make a refreshingly leftfield addition to the current glut of po-faced vamp flicks, but it has the cast to jump up and down about.

Exhibit one is Colin Farrell as vamp-next-door Jerry Dandridge, a role Chris Sarandon made hay with in Tom Holland’s 1985 original. Exhibit two is Michael Sheen from Underworld David Tennant. As Peter Vincent, he’s the man who stands between Dandridge and a bloodbath of epic proportions, all while grappling with some demons of his own.

“He’s struggling with several demands, some of which are supernatural and some of which are man-made,” Tennant tells Empire, promising a radical departure from the original Vincent. “Roddy McDowall created quite the masterful character and I suppose my Peter Vincent kind of fills the same hole in the film, but everything about him is fairly radically different.”

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