Moby Dick adapted by Stef Penney 2010.

Part 1. 17 October 2010. 57:06 minutes.

Stef Penney, author of the critically acclaimed The Tenderness of Wolves, has adapted this
well known American novel by Herman Melville. Moby Dick is a story, she says, that gets its
hooks into you, even though it's one of the strangest books you'll ever read. It has very
little narrative, no character development to speak of, and there's no dramatic conflict for
over five hundred pages. And yet it's completely compelling, like a fevered dream or a horror
film, and, of course, as soon as Moby Dick is mentioned, you know where you're going to end up.
For anyone who has ever longed to escape, it is the ultimate trip - and the ultimate morality
tale of why you shouldn't go! Captain Ahab is all our darknesses personified; not an evil
figure, but a decent, intelligent, could-have-been-ordinary man who gives in to the tyranny of
an obsessive dream, or in this case, nightmare. In Episode 1, Ishmael, now in middle age, looks
back on his younger self and remembers how this voyage of a lifetime began.

Cast:
Ishmael ..... Trevor White
Young Ishmael ..... PJ Brennan
Captain Ahab ..... Garrick Hagon
Peter Coffin ..... Howell Evans
Queequeg ..... Sani Muliaumaseali'i
Peleg ..... Mark Meadows
Elijahh/Captain Mayhew ..... Dorian Thomas
Starbuck ..... Richard Laing
Stubb ..... Simon Lee Phillips
Archy ..... Adam Redmayne
Daggoo ..... Kobna Holdbrook-Smith

Specially composed music by Stuart Gordon.
Directed at BBC/Cymru Wales by Kate McAll.


Part 2. 24 October 2010. 56:22 minutes.

Herman Melville's classic tale of adventure on the high seas. In this last episode Ishmael
comes to the end of the story of what he witnessed as a young man, a story that has haunted
him ever since. Captain Ahab, himself now rarely sleeping or eating, ignores the need of the
crew for rest and presses on in his obsessive quest for the white whale. After The Pequod is
battered by a ferocious typhoon, first mate Starbuck is presented with an opportunity to
prevent what seems an inevitable tragedy. To succeed he must overcome his milder nature and
steel his nerve. But, in the end, it is Ahab's will that is the stronger, and it seems that
nothing can prevent the boiling, wrenching climax, as the maddened whale turns on the ship.
Adapted by Stef Penney, winner of the Costa Award for Best First Novel and overall Costa Best
Novel Award in 2007 with her first novel The Tenderness of Wolves.

Cast:
Ishmael ..... Trevor White
Young Ishmael ..... PJ Brennan
Captain Ahab ..... Garrick Hagon
Peter Coffin ..... Howell Evans
Queequeg ..... Sani Muliaumaseali'i
Captain Boomer ..... Mark Meadows
Captain Mayhew ..... Dorian Thomas
Starbuck/Gabriel ..... Richard Laing
Stubb ..... Simon Lee Phillips
Archy ..... Adam Redmayne
Daggoo ..... Kobna Holdbrook-Smith

Specially composed music by Stuart Gordon.
Produced and Directed at BBC/Cymru Wales by Kate McAll.

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