016 Speculative Fiction – New
And, to conclude Quarter 4 in 2016 (!), Lost in Glencoe could easily have slotted into the old Features
slot, as it was more factual than fictional.
Written by Richard Monks and Maggie Ayre, it starred Paul McGann. The only fictional thing, indeed, was the
monologue of Ernie/Peter. McGann played Ernie/Peter as mysterious and
apparently unsure of his own fate. In
1953, Peter—a rather solitary man from a Liverpool background—disappeared in
Glencoe in Scotland. He was a loner, and
never went by his name of Peter in Scotland.
Did he have an accident and the body has never been found? Did he run away with a bus conductress and
start a new life in Canada? Nobody knows
and may never know; his relative, Maggie Ayre, has pieced this absorbing
mostly-nonfictional drama together with many interviews from relatives and
friends.
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