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Afternoon Play – Sex For VolunteersThursday 21 August 2.15-3.00pm BBC RADIO 4
A romantic comedy about ambulance volunteers and big knickers, by Laura Marney and David Ramos Fernandes.
Suzy and Pauline are sisters. Suzy's husband's left her to work on an oil pipeline in Saudi and she's at her wits' end. Pauline runs a voluntary ambulance service and, in an attempt to cheer Suzy up, she enlists her as a trainee first-aider. But Pauline's plan goes much further than Suzy imagined. When Pauline convinces another volunteer to wine and dine her sister, the plot begins to unravel. The cast stars Molly Innes as Suzy, Robin Laing as Douglas, Louise Ludgate as Pauline, Steven McNicoll as Joe, Stewart Porter as Peter and Sally Reid as Minnie. The Stage review of Nova Scotia by John Byrne, 1st May 2008: "Robin Laing is solid but little used as Lucille and [Phil] McCann’s son, Miles." This play is the 4th instalment of the Slab Boys trilogy and was on at the Traverse Theatre Fri 25 April - Sat 24 May.
Sgt. Sean McKay in Taggart Season 24, Episode 3: Island, shown 27 February 2008.
Robin appeared as Paul Verlaine in Slope at Tramway Theatre, Glasgow, until 29th July 2006.
Finlay Alexander made a fashionably late appearance into this world when Pauline gave birth to him on 5th January 2004.
Robin Laing has appeared on TV in
The Spielberg TV spin-off from the movie "Saving Private Ryan".
Maureen (Brenda Fricker) passes a crash on the autobahn only a few miles from the JHQ Hospital, where she works. She recognizes her husband James' car, and only too soon finds that he has died from a heart attack, crashing minutes later. Fighting to hold back her grief from her kids, Brian (Robin Laing) and Maeve (Harriet Owen) she tries to resume life as usual. As she goes through James's personal effects returned by the hospital, she finds an Aer Lingus return ticket from Dublin and bills. He owed money to everyone. James's accountant puts the business into liquidation. She is torn: should she reveal the truth to Brian and Maeve? Then Maureen stumbles on a sheaf of mobile phone bills to an Irish number. She dials the number and asks, "Do you know a James Lessing?" A young boy answers, "Sorry, my daddy is away working." She boards a plane bound for Ireland, and arrives to discover the secret of her husband's other life: a wife (Lena Stolze) and son.
Ian Richardson, Charles Dance and Robin Laing re-invent the world of Sherlock Holmes in Murder Rooms, a film inspired by the real-life relationship between Arthur Conan Doyle and his tutor at Edinburgh University, pioneer forensic pathologist Dr Joseph Bell. The duo are drawn into a police investigation in which a blood-stained brothel in the heart of the Edinburgh slums is discovered.
While plowing a nearby field, the Shrewsbury monks stumble on the body of an unidentified woman–believed to be Generys (Sioned Jones), the former wife of local potter, Ruald (Gregor Truter*), who left home and hearth a year before to join monks at Shrewsbury. Refusing to believe that Ruald is a murderer, and desperate to confirm the woman's identity, Cadfael (Derek Jacobi) launches an inquiry that soon leads him to a troubled family comprised of Eudo (Jack Klaff), the lord of the manor on which Ruald and Generys once lived; Eudo's ailing wife Astola (Mel Martin); and their son Sulien (Robin Laing). All three had a reason to kill Generys–adultery, jealousy, lust–but the discovery of a missing ring and a vial of hemlock reveals the truth.
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Like Thelma & Louise meets Shallow Grave, this twisty comic thriller centres on beautiful women who are preyed on by selfish men. Two women meet when Dorothy tries to rescue Petula from a particularly bad beating from her hideously violent boyfriend who ends up dead. Rather than risk a manslaughter trial, the duo try to think up an alternative scenario. Before they can come up with anything though, a nosey detective and Brian's even crueller brother are on their trail. Think fast...
Brendan Behan, a sixteen year old Irish republican, is going on a bombing mission from Ireland to Liverpool during the Second World War. His mission is thwarted when he is apprehended, charged and imprisoned in Borstal, a reform institution for young offenders in East Anglia, England. At Borstal Brendan is forced to live face to face with those he perceived as "the enemy". A confrontation that reveals a deep inner conflict in the young Brendan and forces a self-examination that is both traumatic and revealing. Events take an unexpected turn and Brendan is thrown into a complete spin. In the emotional vortex, he finally faces up to the truth.
The Slab Boys is a Channel Four Films Production and is based on John Byrne's plays the Slab Boys and Cuttin' a Rug. Produced by Simon Relph (Lows Malle's 'Damage, Mike Newell's 'Enchanted April' and 'God on the Rocks'), The Slab Boys is set in unpicturesome Paisley in 1957, in the slab room of A.F Stobo, carpet makers. The boys are teenagers making paint for the designers in the carpet factory. Phil McCann, (Robin Laing, with a gravity-defying quiff) knows there's more to life than mixing hues anc aspires to go to art school. Spanky (Russell Barr) dreams of America, Elvis and Marilyn Monroe, and Hector (Bill Gardiner) is the short-sighted nerd. They all lust after Lucille (Louise Berry) and look forward to the firm's annual dance. Highly stylised and a impressive swirl of colourful production design and cheerful vulgarity, it's a time full of caffeine and quiffs. No sex! No drugs! Loads of rock and roll.
Nice job, shame about the hairstyle, Robin!
A review of 'Slab Boys'
Technical blurb about 'Slab Boys'
Robin Laing - I went to Fife College with him, you know!
Robin played John in part 3 of "McLevy" (the Afternoon Play) on BBC Radio 4 on Monday 15th December 2003.
Robin Laing has also appeared in theatres in the play version of "Trainspotting", playing Hal in "Loot" by Joe Orton, Robin Goodfellow a.k.a. Puck in Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and Tutor in "Medea".
You may be able to contact Robin via his agent:
Christian Hodell, Hamilton Asper Management, 24 Hanway Street, London W1P 9DD. Tel: 44 207 636 1221 Fax:44 207 636 1226.
people have also been strangely curious about Master Laing.
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Internet Movie Database information
Bizarre site by someone convinced that Ioan Gruffudd would make a good BTVS.
Robin stars as Mannie, the Watcher. "Mannie grew up in Bangor, and did not meet Gruffy until the age of 15, when they were informed of their callings and brought together as a consequence. Mannie is quick-witted and intelligent; sometimes too intelligent for the older Gruffy’s liking."
*Gregor Truter also appeared in "Shakespeare in Love"!
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