The Golden Key
Chris Dolan’s play explores the early days of the Â鶹ԼÅÄ Rule movement in Scotland through the eyes of three of the 20th century’s most compelling political figures.
Chris Dolan’s play explores the early days of the Â鶹ԼÅÄ Rule movement in Scotland through the eyes of three of the 20th century’s most compelling political figures – Keir Hardie, James Connolly and R.B. Cunninghame Graham. On May 12, 1916, Cunninghame Graham smokes a cigarette - as he’s done every year for a decade - at his wife’s grave. He has just heard the news of Connolly’s imminent execution by the British Government for his role in the Easter Rising in Dublin. Graham casts his mind back to a meeting with Hardie and Connolly almost 30 years earlier when the Scottish Labour Party was first stirring into life.
R.B. Cunninghame Graham………………………….…..David Robb
Keir Hardie……………………………………………………….Robert Jack
Gabriella Cunnninghame Graham……………………Melody Grove
James Connolly…………………………………………………Martin Quinn
Producer/director: Bruce Young
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- Wed 15 Feb 2023 14:15Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 4
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