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  "title": "THE ALTERER",
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  "article": "Two unlikely cops DI Bob Boxer and DC Shona Doberman probe an academics killing\nspree. Comedy police drama with Finlay Welsh.\n2009\nThe cops probe a link between the deaths in Glasgow and murders in an idyllic\nvillage. Stars Finlay Welsh and Anita Vettesse.\nComedy police drama by Alastair Jessiman\nFINLAY WELSH stars as D.I. Boxer in BOXER AND DOBERMAN for BBC Radio 7.  He recorded\nTEA AND SYMMETRY for BBC Radio.\nAll four episodes of the full-cast BBC Radio 4 comedy police drama written by Alastair Jessiman,\noriginally broadcast in March 2009.\nA gloriously gritty Scottish police series featuring the duo of the grizzled Detective Inspector Bob\nBoxer and his slightly less grizzled sidekick Detective Constable Shona Doberman. Join them in\nthese four episodes as they probe an academic killing spree, investigate a link between the\ndeaths in Glasgow and murders in an idyllic village, have their deepest childhood fears exploited\nby a sadistic adversary and scrutinise a series of celebrity deaths. Taggart eat your heart out.\nFinlay Welsh also starred in The Voyage of the Demeter.\nd on 31 March 2009\nShow Details\nTraverse Theatre\nTraverse Theatre and Òran Mór\nRobert Forrest (scriptwriter), Finlay Welsh (idea for the play), Gavin Harding (Production Manager ), Douglas Irvine (Director), Claire Elliott, Renny\nRobertson, Sarah Scarlett, Mark Sodergren, Andrew Steel (Production (Traverse) ), Patrick and Rita McGurn (design), Susannah Armitage (Trainee\nProducer Òran Mór), David MacLennan (Producer Òran Mór)\nFinlay Welsh (Walt/Dylan)\n45mins\nDavid Walters was a man who had everything. He was belovèd by his mother, had brains and looks and got the girl, Bella of Belle Isle.\nWe meet him seated on a park bench surrounded by dead leaves and with the sound of birdsong in the background at what turns out to\nbe the end of his life.\nThe character's monologue of poetic recitation and reflection, punctuated throughout with him popping pills and washing them down\nwith ‘a drop of gold' from his hip flask, becomes a dialogue with what he believes to be the ghost of Dylan Thomas.\nWalt, as he came to be known, was a Maths teacher with a love of words, not just the sound of them, but the very shape of them. Now\nblind, widowed and an alcoholic, he describes his loss of sight as \"absence not darkness.\"\nMaybe that's why his psyche has created what he describes as a very material ghost; one he can hear, sense and smell and describes as\na \"boozy phantom\" with whom he is sharing a nightmare?\nIt is an adult version of the child's imaginary friend who gets blamed for all the naughty things the child does. In Walt's case, it gets as\nbad as nearly setting the kitchen on fire while making a big fry up. This poetic alter ego turns out to be a guardian angel who oversees\nWalt's \"good death\" as he \"meets\" again his own belovèd Bella's \"hazel of a gaze\".\nFinlay Welsh is an actor of wide experience and this was a moving an accomplished performance from him.\nAFTERNOON PLAY (RADIO 4, LONDON—BBC)\n[Tuesday—2:15-3:00 PM]\nNovember 8, 2011\n“The Alterer”\n[BBC RADIO 4: “…Atmospheric drama set on the east coast of Scotland in\n1791. A watchmaker pours all of his skill and knowledge into making a\nmachine that will alter time and create a different universe; one in which\nhe hopes his desperately ill daughter will be returned to him, fully\nrecovered…”]\nSCRIPT: Finlay Welsh.\nPERSONNEL: Kirsteen Cameron (producer).\nCAST: Liam Brennan (Buchan), Finn den Hertog (William), Pauline Knowles\n(Mary), Cal MacAninch (Smith).\nEXTANT RECORDING",
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