Released:
2007-06-16

Overview:
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.

Director:
Richard Downes

Runtime:
0h 57min

Genre:
Documentary

• Cast:
• 
  Ian Rankin
  as
  Presenter/Himself
• 
  Ewen Bremner
  as
  R.L. Stevenson
• 
  Boris Karloff
  as
  Cabman John Gray (archive footage)
• 
  Robert Winston
• 
  Will Self
  as
  Self