BBC Sunday-Night Play The Hasty Heart (Season 2, Episode 37)
TV Episode | Drama

BBC Sunday-Night Play

The Hasty Heart (Season 2, Episode 37)

TV Episode | Drama

It's 1945, Burma, the day the war is over! For many this means they've survived and will be going home. But not for everyone. A Scottish soldier, Corporal Lachlan "Lachie" MacLachlan is the victim of a wound to the lower back on this day. ...See moreIt's 1945, Burma, the day the war is over! For many this means they've survived and will be going home. But not for everyone. A Scottish soldier, Corporal Lachlan "Lachie" MacLachlan is the victim of a wound to the lower back on this day. He's moved to a M.A.S.H. unit and undergoes surgery. As time goes by he begins to recover and watches, in dismay as soldiers pack up and head for home. The doctors have told him he needs to remain "for observation". The Colonel takes Sister Parker, the unit head nurse, into his confidence and tells her that the real reason Cpl. MacLachlan can't go home is because the wound he sustained destroyed one of his kidneys and the other one is defective and will shut down in three to four weeks. He asks her to put Lachlan up with some other soldiers she has waiting to go home so that he can spend his last days with friends. But Cpl. MacLachlan wants nothing to do with friends and prefers his own privacy to "idle chat". He's a hard nut to crack and their work is cut out for them to make him as comfortable as possible. Written by McGinty See less

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9 cast members

Name	Known for
Charles Houston Sgt. Lachlan McLachlan Sgt. Lachlan McLachlan See fewer	Department S (1969)
Patrick Allen Yank Yank See fewer	Dial M for Murder (1954)
Vincent Ball Digger Digger See fewer	Where Eagles Dare (1968)
Jennifer Wright Sister Margaret Sister Margaret See fewer	Jane Eyre (1956)
Patrick Newell Tommy Tommy See fewer	The Avengers (1961)
Roger Croucher Orderly Orderly See fewer	Buddenbrooks (1965)
George Roubicek Kiwi Kiwi See fewer	The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
Dan Jackson Blossom Blossom See fewer	Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)
Manning Wilson Colonel Colonel See fewer	Kenilworth (1957)