Leonard Maguire's guest appearances

Leonard Maguire

Great Lives

Dolly Alderton

Ian McKellen

Michael Young

Yanis Varoufakis

Lucy Porter

Alfred Hitchcock

Elie Wiesel

Toni Morrison

Sammy Davis Jr

Ben Miller

Oliver Sacks

Richard Feynman

Kurt Vonnegut

Orson Welles

Philippa Perry

OwlTail

Matthew Parris finds out why the actor Bill Paterson would nominate for Great Life status a Scottish actor little known outside Scotland. He is Leonard Maguire, who died in 1997 after a career which took in acting on stage, television, film and radio and included some wonderful writing - not bad going for a man who learned English as his third language as a child.The expert witness is Leonard Maguire's writer daughter, Susie.Produced by Christine Hall and Sarah Langan.First heard on Radio 4 in 2012.

Matthew Parris finds out why the actor Bill Paterson would nominate for Great Life status a Scottish actor little known outside Scotland. He is Leonard Maguire, who died in 1997 after a career which took in acting on stage, television, film and radio and included some wonderful writing - not bad going for a man who learned English as his third language as a child. The expert witness is Leonard Maguire's writer daughter, Susie. Produced by Christine Hall and Sarah Langan. First heard on Radio 4 in 2012.