with Eileen McCallum and Andrew Cruickshank as the Narrator.
The story of Christian Watt, adapted from her own account of her life The Christian Watt Papers edited by David Fraser.
Christian Watt was declared insane in 1879 and admitted to Cornhill, the hospital for the mentally ill in Aberdeen, where she lived for the next 44 years. She died, aged 90, in 1923. At Cornhill she wrote about her early life in the fishing community of Broadsea, near Fraserburgh in Aberdeenshire. She also described in vivid and, by turns, abrasive and tender detail her travels to London and New York, her encounters with the Scottish aristocracy, her marriage, and the succession of tragedies that finally unhinged her mind but at the same time renewed and deepened her simple religious faith.