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Series of comic plays starring Stanley Baxter

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Maureen Beattie

Tracy Wiles

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Rona Munro

Marilyn Imrie

Catherine Bailey

The Stanley Baxter Playhouse: Series 6: Meg's Tale

Meg's Tale

Series 6

BBC Radio 4 - The Stanley Baxter Playhouse, Series 6, Meg's Tale

The real story of Tam O'Shanter's big night out from the viewpoint of Meg the horse.

The real story of Robert Burns' Tam O'Shanter - from the viewpoint of a horse and a barmaid. With Maureen Beattie. From 2014.

How Robert Burns discovered the real story of Tam O'Shanter's big night out at Alloway Kirk.

Revealed from the point of view of a young barmaid called Norah and her Aunty Meg, who finds herself the victim of a spell malfunction, becoming the horse whom Burns made famous in Tam O'Shanter.

Murdo Fletcher    ......    Stanley Baxter
John Knox    ......    Stuart McQuarrie
Mary Queen of Scots    ......    Tracy Wiles
Chronicler    ......    Hugh Ross

Other parts played by the cast.   

Written by Rona Munro.

Director: Marilyn Imrie

A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in 2014.

The Stanley Baxter Playhouse: Series 6

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