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Omnibus

Duration: 58 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Set partly on an Ayrshire farm and in the boom town of 19th Century Glasgow in the 1870s - the story of the Moorhouse family through good times and bad.
From the novel by Guy McCrone, dramatised by Clara Glynn.

Phoebe Moorhouse, aged 10, lives on a farm in Ayrshire, but when tragedy strikes her father and stepmother
the future becomes uncertain. Phoebe's older brother Mungo is experienced enough to run the farm, but can he cope with bringing up his sister as well?

Phoebe Moorhouse........Natasha Watson
Mungo Moorhouse.........Liam Brennan
Mrs. Barrowfield............Juliet Cadzow
Bel Moorhouse..............Louise Ludgate
Arthur Moorhouse..........Robin Laing
Sophia..........................Lucy Paterson
David Moorhouse...........Duncan Anderson
Sarah...........................Lisa Nicoll
Struan..........................Jamie Brotherston

Other parts played by members of the cast.

Producer/director: David Ian Neville. Show less

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