Boswell and Johnson's Tour of the Western Isles

Boswell and Johnson's Tour of the Western Isles (1993)

ComedyTV Movie

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.

Director: John Byrne

Casts

	Robbie Coltrane as Dr Samuel Johnson
	John Sessions as James Boswell
	Celia Imrie as Lady MacDonald
	Ruth McGhie as Flora McDonald
	Penelope McGhie as Miss Campbell
	Nicola Esson as Elizabeth McQuarrie
	Mark Anstee as Captain MacLeod
	Alan David as Sir Aeneas MacPherson
	Ian Dury as Dr Reid
	Tony Halfpenny as Coll
	Donald MacNeill as McLeod of Raasay
	Carol MacReady as Lady MacPherson
	Richard D. Sharp as Benjamin
	Leo Sho-Silva as Joseph
	Joanne Thirsk as Caroline MacPherson

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