A Tale of the Scottish Tinkers
Between 1914 and 1919 By JANE H. FINDLATER
Adapted for broadcasting by JAMES S. C. MACGREGOR
The Cast : James Anderson , Nell Ballantyne , Albert Chalmers ,
Catherine Fletcher , James Gibson , Allan MacLean , Belina Miller , Elsie Payne , Jean Taylor Smith , John Strachan ,
Harold L. Wightman
* The Characters :
Ranald Reid , a Scottish tinker Maggie Reid , his wife
Flora Reid , their oldest child Policeman
Hamish Reid , Ranald and Maggie s second child
Farmer's wife
Lizzie Reid , wife of Richard Richard Reid , a tinker of the same clan as Ranald Postmaster of Achinbeg Father Bain , parish priest at Achinbeg McAllister , schoolmaster at Achinbeg Jessie McMillan , a member of another tinker clan, now settled at Fort William
A village woman at Achinbeg A village man at Achinbeg Schoolchildren Villagers
This tale of tinkers' life takes place during and immediately after the War.
It opens in a tinkers' encampment in Dundurer Woods , Perthshire Produced by HOWARD ROSE
(From Glasgow)