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Grey Granite: 2: Granite and Thistledown

on BBC Two England

by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, dramatised for television in three parts by Bill Craig
Starring Vivien Heilbron as Chris Colquohoun

'And I wondered... Why did folk waste their time in towns in the filth and stour when they might slip away up the Howe and smell the smell of the harvest?'

BBC Scotland

Contributors

Author:
Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Dramatised by:
Bill Craig
Designer:
David McKenzie
Producer:
Roderick Graham
Director:
Tom Cotter
Chris Colquohoun:
Vivien Hellbron
Ake Ogilvie:
Alec Heggie
Ma Cleghorn:
Eileen McCallum
Ewan Tavendale:
Peter Raffan
Ellen Johns:
Gerda Stevenson
George Piddle:
Frank Williams
Archie Clearmont:
Joe Mullaney
Neil Quaritch:
John Buick
Ena Lyon:
Jan Shand
Miss Murgatroyd:
Margo Cunningham
Grant:
Brown Derby
Manager:
Martin Heller
Jim Trease:
Stuart McGugan
Stephen Selden:
Paul Dalton
Radical redhead:
Karen McMullen
Geordie Bruce:
Robert Buchanan
Norman Cruickshank:
John Langford
Drunk's woman:
Ann Downie
Drunk:
Tommy Clyde
Man on tram:
John Batty
Doctor:
Lawrence Ventre
'Feet' Leslie:
Martin Black
Alick Watson:
Martin Muchan
Izey Urquhart:
Eve Pearce

BBC Two England

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