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Afternoon Play: The Sensitive

1/4 The Sensitive: The Sensitive 11-08-2006

 

Offbeat thriller by Alastair Jessiman. Police call in a psychic to help find a missing woman. Thomas Soutar is adept at solving crimes - but is his extraordinary gift a blessing or a curse?

Review from The Radio Times

Thomas Soutar (played by Robin Laing) is an incredibly gifted man who, over the course of three previous outings in Radio 4 dramas, has never been able to determine whether his keen psychic powers are a blessing or a curse. Although Soutar has helped Strathclyde police solve numerous cases, the personal connections he makes to murder victims have left him with mental health problems of his own. This time, Thomas has been brought in to find a serial killer, the "Nobody" of the play's title but are his messages getting confused? He can hear a young man asking him to dig deep in a garden, but when the police follow this through there's no body to be found... This is a bit like TV's Medium - totally unbelievable but with irresistible flourishes of heart-stopping tension. I loved it.

-- Jane Anderson

Thomas ...................................... Jimmy Chisholm

Mrs Soutar ................................... Sheila Donald

DC Sharon Webb ................................ Julie Austin

Mrs Allsop .................................... Mary Riggans

Mhairi ...................................... Kathryn Howden

Calum .......................................... Chris Young

Duncan/Attendant ............................... James Bryce

Directed by Bruce Young

2/4 The Sensitive: The Hanged Man 28-11-2007

Alastair Jessiman's second play about a psychic who uses his gifts to help police investigations. Thomas Soutar discovers some unsettling connections between his own uncle's past and the murder of a young boy.

Thomas ......................................... Robin Laing

Mrs Soutar ................................... Sheila Donald

Uncle Rory ............................... Michael Mackenzie

Murdo Lawson ................................... Alec Heggie

Dr Caldwell ................................... John Shedden

Mark Bukowski ................................. Finlay Welsh

Inspector Crawford .............................. Simon Tait

Thomas as a boy ............................. William Barlow

Directed by David Jackson Young

3/4 The Sensitive: A Possession 04-03-2009

 

Alastair Jessiman's third play about a Glasgow psychic who uses his gifts to help police investigations. When Thomas Soutar agrees to help in the search for a music student who has been missing for a year, he becomes obsessed by the missing girl in ways that he had not expected.

Thomas ......................................... Robin Laing

Natasha ...................................... Anita Vitesse

Mrs Soutar ................................... Sheila Donald

Mr Paris .................................. James MacPherson

Mrs Paris ....................................... Cara Kelly

Mrs Collins .................................. Juliet Cadzow

Guest House Manager ....................... John Paul Hurley

Carol .................................... Patricia Kavanagh

Other parts played by the cast

Directed by Bruce Young

4/4 The Sensitive: A Nobody 24-03-2010

Alastair Jessiman's Glasgow psychic detective returns for a new and disturbing case.

Thomas suffers a crisis of confidence when he is asked to investigate a potential serial killer. An old girlfriend, Kat, persuades him to take a break, but when they drive north for a few days, Thomas soon becomes convinced that they are being followed.

Thomas ......................................... Robin Laing

Kat ........................................ Daniela Nardini

Young Man ................................... Iain Robertson

Mrs Soutar ................................... Sheila Donald

Crawford ........................................ Simon Tait

WPC ...................................... Suzanne Donaldson

Directed by Bruce Young.

Thanks to SadSack for the first three plays and Eft for the description

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