Drama of the Week - Harry Swithenback’s Private Visit

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The award-winning Scottish writer Alan Warner’s new and specially commissioned story sees an antiques expert off the telly – Harry Swithenback – arrive in at this unnamed harbour town for what he hopes is a few days of rest and relaxation, however, the townspeople have other ideas. Stuart McQuarrie reads.

Alan Warner, who as was born in Oban on the west coast of Scotland in 1964, is the author of several novels including: Morvern Callar (1995), which won the Somerset Maugham Prize and was adapted for the cinema by director Lynne Ramsay in 2002. It is published as a Vintage Classic. He also wrote These Demented Lands (1997), which won the Encore Award and The Sopranos/Our Ladies, (1998), which won the Saltire Book of the Year Award. His novel The Stars in the Bright Sky from 2010 was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize.

Stuart McQuarrie is a television, film and theatre actor who has appeared in shows such as Taggart, Rab C Nesbitt, London’s Burning and Silent Witness. In film, he's also had notable roles in 28 Days Later, Terminator: Dark Fate and White Bird.

The producer is Dominic Howell.

Published on Friday, 24th October 2025.

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