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Stanley Baxter

Richard Briers

John Sessions

Gabriel Quigley

Maureen Beattie

Gordon Kennedy

Michael Chaplin

Marilyn Imrie

Drama on 4: Two Pipe Problems: Episode 2: I Love a Lassie

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Episode 2: I Love a Lassie

I Love a Lassie

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Sandy's trip back to his birthplace in Greenock reveals a life changing surprise.

Sandy is awarded the Freedom of Greenock. He left there at 21 and returns to face threats, a warning and a surprise.

Sandy decides to travel to Greenock on Clydeside to collect his Freedom of the City award. As he has no living relatives or close friends, he invites William to accompany him on condition he behaves himself. Once again
Stanley Baxter and Richard Briers play the two elderly detectives who solve mysteries by stealth and intuition.

When Sandy and William arrive in the old shipbuilding town, they meet the Provost's secretary Moira. It becomes clear that his hosts really know virtually nothing about Sandy - in fact Moira asks to interview him so she can write up the Provost's speech for the ceremony. 

The following day, Sandy shows William around his birthplace. They visit the tenement where he was born and meet a man he was at school with. He isn't wholly friendly and, when they return to the hotel, there is a message: "Do you know how much pain you left behind. Why?". Sandy is anxious, especially when another message appears on the morning of the ceremony: "Why, oh why? Now it's your turn to feel the pain. You will suffer as others have suffered". 

So the race is on to uncover who exactly is out to get Sandy and why. The solution to the riddle is finally revealed at the Freedom of Greenock ceremony, when the roots of everyone's resentment are uncovered. 

Director : Marilyn Imrie
A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4.

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Comedy drama by Michael Chaplin, with mystery-solving retired thespians William and Sandy

Fourth series of comedy dramas by Michael Chaplin, featuring mystery-solving retired thespians William and Sandy

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