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Stanley Baxter
The Stanley Baxter Playhouse

The Stanley Baxter Playhouse

  • Radio comedy drama
  • BBC Radio 4
  • 2006 - 2016
  • 25 episodes (8 series)

A series of individual comedy dramas starring Stanley Baxter. Also features Bill Paterson.

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Series 7, Episode 1 - The Leaving of Barra

As he prepares to leave his home on the Hebridean island of Barra for ever, an old man remembers the love of his life.

Further details

In this opening story, listeners are taken back in time to 1949, when a young man, an assistant director on the film Whisky Galore!, falls in love with a local girl on the Hebridean island of Barra, where the shoot is taking place. Back in the present, 66 years later, his memories of that golden time come flooding back.

Broadcast details

Date
Wednesday 9th December 2015
Time
11:30am
Channel
BBC Radio 4
Length
30 minutes

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