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Dialogue in the Dark
Another chance to see Michael Ignatieff 's highly acclaimed drama that has inspired three new dramatised encounters (to be shown over the next three weeks) imagining confrontations between the famous and the dead.
Starring Alec McCowen David Rintoul
Edinburgh, 1776: after watching a public hanging and visiting a prostitute,
James Boswell visits the philospher
David Hume and discusses sex, religion and death.
Producer Aileen Forsyth Director Jonathan Miller

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Ignatieff
Unknown:
Alec McCowen
Unknown:
David Rintoul
Unknown:
James Boswell
Unknown:
David Hume
Producer:
Aileen Forsyth
Director:
Jonathan Miller
David Hume:
Alec McCowen
James Boswell:
David Rintoul
Peggy Irvine:
Jennifer Piercey
Manservant:
Alex McAvoy
Source: Radio Times

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