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The Sensitive: Underground Man

Radio 4 Afternoon Drama
Wed 7th and Thu 8th May 2014 at 2.15pm

In this two part thriller, partly set in Glasgow's disused underground tunnels, psychic detective Thomas Soutar searches for an ex soldier who may have killed two men. Then Kat, Thomas's girlfriend, disappears....

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The Sensitive: Terma

Radio 4 Afternoon Drama
Tuesday 25th June 2013

Thomas goes in search of a missing journalist who has information which can bring down a Glaswegian gangland clan.

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The Sensitive: Black Island

Radio 4 Afternoon Drama
Wednesday 26th June 2013

Thomas and Kat go to an island in the Outer Hebrides to visit their friends, Richie and Guy. But the island holds a terrible secret....


The Sensitive: Queen of the Dead

Radio 4 Afternoon Play
Thursday 27th December 2012

A friend contacts Thomas after she finds a box full of old cassette tapes in the attic. Can the tapes shed light on the mysterious death of her mother?

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The Sensitive: The Protector

BBC RADIO 4 Afternoon Play
Friday 18th May, 2:15 – 3:00pm

Thomas Soutar is asked to investigate the disappearance of a family friend. It's believed the missing man may have committed suicide. The voices in Thomas's head suggest a different explanation - but before he can solve the mystery he's shocked by a revelation about a secret hidden deep in his own past. And what is the secret Mrs. Soutar cannot share with her son?

The Sensitive — The Protector

Thomas........................Robin Laing
Mrs Soutar....................Sheila Donald
Kat..............................Julie Duncanson
Jean Harvey.....Anne Downie
David/Minister.....John Buick

Producer/director: Bruce Young.


The Sensitive — A Casualty of War

BBC RADIO 4 Afternoon Play
Last broadcast on Tue, 19 Apr 2011, 14:15 on BBC Radio 4.

The Sensitive — A Casualty of War A woman missing since 1945 is seen in a deserted guest house. Glasgow's psychic detective investigates.

Thomas........................Robin Laing
Mrs Soutar....................Sheila Donald
Kat..............................Julie Duncanson
Jack.............................Paul Young
Mrs Forbes-Brown.........Edith Macarthur

Producer/director: Bruce Young.

Boxer and Doberman

TWO BRAND NEW EPISODES on Radio 7

Starring Finlay Welsh as Detective Inspector Bob Boxer and Anita Vetesse as Detective Sergeant Shona Doberman

Mon 6th and Tue 7th Dec 2010 at 1pm, 8pm and 1am.

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The Sensitive: A Nobody

BBC RADIO 4 Afternoon Play
Wednesday 24th March. 2.15–3.00pm.

Troubled psychic, Thomas Soutar, gets back together with an old flame, Kat. But Thomas becomes preoccupied with a particularly disturbing and sinister case. Can the relationship survive?... Soon it becomes clear that it is not only Thomas and Kat's relationship which is threatened.....

Boxer and Doberman


A 4 part comedy series for (Digital) Radio 7

Starring Finlay Welsh as Detective Inspector Bob Boxer
and Anita Vettesse as Detective Constable Shona Doberman

"TAGGART – eat your heart out. It's time to make way for BBC Radio 7's gloriously gritty new Scottish police series."

"REBUS – just stay in your bed – there are two new Scots detectives on the beat."

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The Sensitive: A possession

BBC RADIO 4 Afternoon Play
Wednesday 4th March. 2.15–3.00pm.

Starring Robin Laing as the troubled young psychic, Thomas Soutar, who is called in to investigate the disaapearance of a gifted and beautiful music student.
His investigation uncovers a number of uncomfortable truths – not least for Thomas himself who falls under the missing girl's spell.

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 Death of Magnus Sweet
Radio 4 Afternoon Play
Transmitted 27th March 2008

Caspar........... William Barlow
Solly................Miles Jupp
Uncle Bill..........Michael Mackenzie
Janine...............Wendy Seager
Squelch.............Oliver Wale
Headmaster........Gareth Thomas
Fergie.................Sam Hunt
Panda.................Mark Agnew
Produced by David Jackson-Young

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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