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Drama on 4: The Tobacco Merchant's Lawyer

The Tobacco Merchant's Lawyer

25/03/2015

BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, The Tobacco Merchant's Lawyer

Iain Heggie's satirical play about an impecunious lawyer, set in 18th-century Glasgow.

Glasgow, 1780: Can impecunious lawyer Enoch Dalmellington manage to find a husband for his daughter? Stars Ian McDiarmid.

Glasgow 1780. Lawyer Enoch Dalmellington represents the ambiguities of Scottish society since the Union. He detests the corruption of Glasgow's merchants, but can't resist being bought off by them; he dreams of Scottish independence, but is too canny to mention it. And there's a wake-up call to a city whose history has always been more rich, varied and morally ambiguous than the dominant narrative of victimhood allows.

Dalmellington ..... Ian McDiarmid
Directed by Jeremy Mortimer

Iain Heggie was born in Glasgow in 1953. 'A Wholly Healthy Glasgow' , and his John Whiting award-winning play, American Bagpipes, both premiered at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester, and were later seen at The Royal Court in London. Recent plays include' Love Freaks' (a new take of Double Inconstancy) and 'Sauciehall Street'.

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