English Passengers written by Matthew Kneale performed by Ron Keith, Simon Prebble, Gerrard Doyle and Jenny Sterlin and Davina Porter on Cassette (Unabridged)

Matthew Kneale's English Passengers tells the story of an 1857 expedition to Tasmania, in search of the Garden of Eden, whose members - including a vicar and a sinister racial theorist - don't realise they are actually aboard a Manx smuggling ship.

Told by a score of different characters and packed with drama, comedy and punch, English Passengers is a major work of the imagination.