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“I’m dealing with people who don’t know drama. They’re essentially civil servants”

The music hall moustache may be thicker than a Tom Stoppard plot, but it still can’t filter the vituperation which emerges from the mouth of Scotland’s most combative and controversial playwright.

Over the years, former shipyard worker Peter McDougall has been responsible for some of the best drama seen on our screens, the 1970s Scots kitchen sinkers such as Elephant’s Graveyard and Just a Boys’ Game.