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Boswell and Johnson's Tour of the Western Isles

1993 · Released

Comedy TV 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.

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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

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