The Suicide Club: Bored with Life
Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Suicide Club begins with Prince Florizel of Bohemia searching London for adventure—and leads him into a secret society where despair, murder, and suicide have been transformed into a game.
In this Chesterton Radio University Deep Dive, we return to Stevenson’s original New Arabian Nights and listen to two very different radio interpretations: the 1954 Living Fiction production and the later CBS Radio Mystery Theater adaptation.
Along the way, we explore Prince Florizel, the sinister President of the Suicide Club, Stevenson’s strange mixture of comedy and darkness…
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