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Doctor Finlay

Adventures of a Black Bag

6. The Sisters Scobie

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 7Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Available for 8 months

Doctor Finlay rashly decides he can cure both the crabby cohabiting Scobie sisters of flu - and the fact that they haven't talked to each other for 15 years...

Starring John Gordon Sinclair.

AJ Cronin's stories about the early years of the celebrated doctor.

Ready with his black bag, Doctor Finlay sets out to remedy all manner of ailments suffered by his patients in the Scottish Highland town of Levenford.

Dramatised by Sue Rodwell.

Dr Finlay ...... John Gordon Sinclair
Dr Cameron ...... Brian Pettifer
Janet ...... Katy Murphy
Beth Scobie ...... Jennifer Piercey
Annabelle Scobie ...... Muriel Barker
Nurse Peggy Angus ...... Sharon Small
John Angus. ...... Gordon Reid

Producer: Jeremy Howe

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2001. Show less

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