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Doctor Finlay

The Further Adventures of a Black Bag - Series 1

4. Birth and Death

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for years

As the squabble over who is the most up-to-date doctor gets more heated, it takes a baby to teach Cameron and Finlay a lesson in humility.

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.

Starring John Gordon Sinclair.

AJ Cronin's stories about Scotland's most celebrated doctor

Dramatised by Sue Rodwell.

Doctor Finlay …. John Gordon Sinclair
Doctor Cameron …. Brian Pettifer
MacFinnon …. Stuart McQuarrie
Jessie Todd …. Pauline Lockhart
Dougal Todd …. Andrew Mackintosh
Mrs Todd …. Tina Gray

Produced and directed at BBC Bristol by Jeremy Howe and Viv Beeby.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2002. Show less

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