Alcoholic double glazing salesman “Ready” Eddie McKenna (Ken Stott) takes a part-time side-gig as a hospital radio DJ at St Jude’s Psychiatric Hospital in Glasgow.
Eddie recruits some of the inmates as station employees and with the help of good-hearted manic depressive Campbell Bain (David Tenant) – who appoints himself as a trainee DJ – and schizophrenic Fergus (Angus Macfadyen) he resurrects the dusty, dilapidated radio station.
Ruth McCabe is superb as the OCD-ridden Rosalie who turns out to be fantastic at filing and sorting all the records. Elizabeth Spriggs plays Eddie’s Lithuanian grandmother, with whom he lives.
The scenes in the hospital were filmed in Gartloch Psychiatric Hospital, in Glasgow, before it closed. Many of the extras in these scenes were former patients.
Eddie McKenna
Ken Stott Campbell Bain
David Tennant Francine
Katy Murphy Rosalie
Ruth McCabe Grandma
Elizabeth Spriggs Isabel
Angela Bruce Stuart
Kenneth Bryans Alastair
Matt Costello Billy
Derek Anders Hector
Gavin Mitchell Margaret
Molly Innes Griffin
Roy Hanlon Sheila
Nell Brennan MacAteer
Neil McKinven Jane
Caroline Paterson Fergus
Angus Macfadyen Evelyn
Sandra Voe Lavery
Ronnie McCann Paula
Arabella Weir Webster
Paul Blair
Episodes
Hey Jude | Fly Like an Eagle | You Always Hurt the One You Love | Fool on the Hill | Rainy Night in Georgia | Let It Be
