Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson's gothic masterpiece needs little introduction, yet few first-time listeners know how strange and slippery the original really is. When the respectable lawyer Gabriel Utterson begins investigating his old friend Dr Jekyll's connection to a violent, repellent stranger named Edward Hyde, he's drawn into a secret that will not stay buried. What unfolds is a tense, atmospheric mystery about the version of ourselves we keep hidden - and what happens when it gets loose.

Told through Utterson's dogged, unsettled point of view, this is Victorian suspense at its tightest. A story about duality, addiction, repression and the thin membrane between civility and appetite, it remains as sharp now as it was in 1886.