3/3. By Patrick O'Brian. Diana is pregnant. Stephen offers to marry her but she refuses because it's not his child.

3/3/ Dramatisation of Patrick O’Brian's novel and its sequel, The Surgeon’s Mate.

Diana is pregnant. Stephen offers to marry her but she refuses because it’s not his child. Jack is given a fresh command, HMS Ariel, with a mission to subvert the Catalan garrison of Grimsholm island, guarding the passage between Denmark and Sweden. But on the voyage home the Ariel is shipwrecked off the coast of Brittany. Jack and Stephen are taken prisoner by the French and transported to Paris for interrogation – where Stephen is accused of being a spy.

Dramatised by Roger Danes.

Captain Jack Aubrey............................................DAVID ROBB

Doctor Stephen Maturin.........................RICHARD DILLANE

Diana Villiers..............................................CANDIDA BENSON

Lt. Jagiello................................................................TOM CAWTE

Lt. Cornelius Hyde...........................................CARL PREKOPP

Sir Joseph Blaine.........................................STRUAN RODGER

Killick........................................................................JON GLOVER

Bonden..........................................................................SAM DALE

Major Clapier.... ...........................................STEPHEN HOGAN

Admiral Dommet...............................................TONY TURNER

Captain Babbington.................................................DON GILET

Sophie Aubrey.........................................JEANETTE PERCIVAL

Amanda Smith...................................................EMMA HANDY

Rowbotham........................................LIAM LAU FERNANDEZ

Other parts are played by the cast.

Producer/director Bruce Young