The Death of Magnus Sweet
BBC RADIO 4 Afternoon Play
Thursday 27th March 2008, 2.15 - 3.00pm
At a Scottish boarding school in the 1960's, two boys invent a fictitious classmate. But what to do when everyone starts to believe that Magnus Sweet exists?
The Sensitive: the Hanged Man
BBC Radio 4 - Afternoon Play
In Alastair Jessiman's second play about Thomas Soutar – a psychic who uses his gifts to help police solve difficult cases – unsettling connections emerge between a young boy's murder and the death of Thomas's own uncle, the ebullient Reverend Rory Soutar.
Robin Laing plays Thomas Soutar, Sheila Donald plays his mother and Michael Mackenzie plays Uncle Rory. The cast also features Alec Heggie, John Shedden, Finlay Welsh, Simon Tait and William Barlow as the young Thomas Soutar.
Producer/David Jackson Young
First broadcast on Wednesday 28 November, 2.15pm
The Devil's Alliance
Commissioned by The Wellcome Trust as part of their 'Big Picture' series.
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The Sensitive
BBC Radio 4 - Afternoon Play
Offbeat thriller. Police call in a psychic to help find a missing woman. Thomas Soutar is adept at solving crimes - but is his extraordinary gift a blessing or a curse?
First broadcast on Friday 11th August 2006, 2:15pm
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The Passion of Plum Duff
BBC Radio 4 - Afternoon Play
Comedy about the clash of spiritual and human yearning, as an overweight Glasgow minister faces a mid-life crisis.
When the 23-stone Reverend Plum Duff is suspected of having an affair with both the son and the wife of his session clerk, he turns to drink and his ukelele for support.
First broadcast Wednesday 22nd February 2006
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Starman
BBC Radio 4 - Afternoon Play
On a visit home to Glasgow for his father's funeral, Tom's thoughts go back to 1974.
As a 15-year-old schoolboy, he was fascinated by stars - astronomical stars in the night sky, glamorous rock-stars like David Bowie, and would-be local stars like the charismatic and sexually ambiguous Danny, who he meets one day on the bus.
First broadcast 16/07/2004.
First repeated 11/07/2006
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