Andrina is a 1981 television play based on a short story by George MacKay Brown, adapted and directed by Bill Forsyth for BBC Scotland.BBC – Radio Times – AndrinaBritish Film Institute – AndrinaLibrary of Congress – AndrinaBritish Library – Andrina/BrownReview — Sunday Times Magazine, 29 November 1981, pp. 9–10.Review — Benny Green, Punch, 9 December 1981, p. 1069.Review — Alan Bold, "Trust the Teller, Not the Telly", Times Literary Supplement, 11 December 1981, p. 1442.Review — Tom Milne, Sight and Sound 51, no. 1 (Winter, 1981): 16.
Plot A retired sea captain living alone in a remote cottage in Orkney is befriended by a young girl, Andrina, who asks him for a love story from his past. He repeatedly refuses to tell her, until he eventually succumbs, when the consequences are not as he expected.
Cast Cyril Cusack as Captain Bill Torvald Wendy Morgan as Andrina Sandra Voe as Tina Stewart Jimmy Yuill as Stanley Dave Anderson as Isaac
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