
Boswell and Johnson's Tour of the Western Isles
In the autumn of 1773, the English writer Samuel Johnson visits the Hebrides, or Western Isles, off the North-West coast of Scotland. With him are his friend, the Scotsman James Boswell, and his black servant Francis Barber. Staying with a series of hosts, including elderly Jacobite heroine Flora McDonald, Johnson and Boswell encounter traditional Scottish hospitality at first-hand, all the time arguing about politics (and in Boswell's case losing his head over every pretty woman he meets). Meanwhile, Francis and another black servant they encounter provide evidence of the new consciousness emerging in Britain's soon-to-be-independent American colonies.
Boswell and Johnson's Tour of the Western Isles
October 27, 1993
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Cast (15)

Robbie Coltrane
Dr Samuel Johnson

John Sessions
James Boswell

Celia Imrie
Lady MacDonald

Ruth McGhie
Flora McDonald

Penelope McGhie
Miss Campbell

Nicola Esson
Elizabeth McQuarrie

Mark Anstee
Captain MacLeod

Alan David
Sir Aeneas MacPherson

Ian Dury
Dr Reid

Tony Halfpenny
Coll

Donald MacNeill
McLeod of Raasay

Carol MacReady
Lady MacPherson

Richard D. Sharp
Benjamin

Leo Sho-Silva
Joseph

Joanne Thirsk
Caroline MacPherson
Crew (3)
Directing

John Byrne
Director
Writing

John Byrne
Writer
Production

Nicholas Barton
Producer