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Joe McFadden Remembers... The Crow Road

Actor Joe McFadden, who played the central role of Prentice McHoan in The Crow Road, looks back on the series that had 90s audiences hooked, and discusses his work alongside an impressive cast.

Considered one of the finest TV adaptations of a novel ever made for television, BBC Scotland’s The Crow Road was first broadcast in 1996, four years after the publication of Iain Banks’s acclaimed bestseller. Here, actor Joe McFadden, who played the central role of Prentice McHoan, looks back on the series that had 90s audiences hooked, and discusses his work alongside an impressive cast that included Bill Paterson, Dougray Scott and Peter Capaldi as Prentice’s mysterious missing Uncle Rory.

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12 minutes

Music Played

  • Carole King

    So Far Away

  • Edwyn Collins

    A Girl Like You

Credits

RoleContributor
PresenterJoe McFadden
ProducerSimon Catt
Series ProducerSimon Goretzki

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