by J.M. Barrie
A Play of the Month presentation
with Helen Mirren as Babbie, Ian Ogilvy as Rev Gavin Dishart, Peter Barkworth as the Earl of Rintoul

Gavin Dishart, the young minister of Thrums, loves his congregation and they him. But when the weavers in the town find their livelihood threatened by the mill owners and their new machines, they resort to violence against the redcoats sent to keep order. Gavin has to intervene, and he does so one night in the wood above the town, but soon finds himself in difficulties when a wild gypsy girl suddenly appears...