The Man Who Would Be King: A BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation

Kipling's chilling adventure about two men who set out to be kings of a remote region of Afghanistan.Kipling, our narrator, tells this strange story: he was running a newspaper in a big Indian city.

In the hot stillness of one night when he was putting the paper to bed, two men came into his office.

They were red-bearded giant Daniel Dravot and his friend Peachy Carnehan.

These two 'gentlemen at large', as they called themselves, lately of the British army, had put together an insane and dangerous plan: they wanted to be Kings of Kafiristan, a mountainous region of Afghanistan.