Dr Finlay of Tannochbrae is the first book in the omnibus, although it was published nearly forty years after Adventures of a Black Bag. This omnibus is made up of two books by Cronin, Dr Finlay of Tannochbrae, published in 1978 and Adventures of a Black Bag, published in 1943, both collections of short stories. Both are about Finlay’s adventures as a small town Scottish doctor in the early 20th century - yet they couldn’t be more different.

Finlay's interactions with women had me scratching my head and are the reason I wouldn't give this 4 stars. He's the kind of upstart young man who is featured, daily, in the newspaper for saving a kitten while simultaneously performing an emergency tracheotomy on a small child. He drew on his medical background in writing his books, and his most popular character was Doctor Finlay, which provided the background for the television series, Doctor Finlay's Casebook. Although he practised medicine in South Wales, when he qualified as a doctor from Glasgow, Dr Finlay is definitely set in his home district on the River Leven, which leaves Loch Lomond and ends up going into the River Clyde after a 6 mile run and a 25 foot drop. Another episode, filmed at night along Mugdock Road, [ citation needed] found the local policeman, somewhat inebriated, on his bicycle in a scene with Dr.A Bill Simpson Fan Club was set up, Andy Stewart’s Dr Finlay was in the Hit Parade for five weeks, and Andrew Cruikshank was invited to the British Medical Association’s annual dinner to speak on medical matters as if he were a real GP! He enjoys his good reputation in the town, however, and Dr Finlay does his best to ensure that the reputation remains a good one. Dr Finlay's Casebook is a delightful collection of episodic stories of Dr Finlay and his life in the fictional Scottish village of Tannochbrae during the inter-war years and based on A. This article includes a list of general references, but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations. I've stopped and restarted my listening at home a couple of times but it didn't quite capture my imagination in the same way as The Citadel.

They are a little corny to the modern reader- but as with many fictional pieces written in a past era - it is shortsighted to place modern values on them. This omnibus edition of Doctor Finlay of Tannochbrae and Adventures of a Black Bag revives Cronin's masterpiece for a contemporary audience – stories which are tragic, funny and wry and which are a celebration of Cronin's tremendous talent. The use of Scots language is more common than in the TV series (for obvious reasons) but it is still not very common.

If I had only read the first part of this book, I’d have given it 4 stars - after the second, it barely deserves two!

He was educated at the University of Glasgow Medical School and served as a surgeon in the Royal Navy during World War I. Simply Media TV released the first series of Dr Finlay's Casebook in March 2013, and the second series was released in April 2014. Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Bahrain, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde Islands, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Cook Islands, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Finland, France, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Gabon Republic, Gambia, Germany, Ghana, Gibraltar, Greece, Greenland, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macau, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Martinique, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Micronesia, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Montserrat, Morocco, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Niue, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Republic of Croatia, Republic of the Congo, Reunion, Romania, Saint Helena, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vatican City State, Venezuela, Virgin Islands (U. Finlay's battles in a small Scottish town are much more superficial and at times it's even a bit slapstick-- the tale of Dr Cameron and his dodgy appendix for instance.We pay our respect to Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today. The BBC went on to dramatise these stories on both television and radio during the 1960s and 1970s, with the television adaptation drawing weekly audiences of 12 million viewers.

One of the BBC’s most successful TV series, Dr Finlay’s Casebook was a national institution, regularly enjoyed by an audience of 12 million. citation needed] One newspaper even accused the author of "maliciously doing millions out of legitimate enjoyment. Essential viewing then it was based on the tales of AJ Cronin, himself a qualified doctor and an accomplished author. J. Cronin because the basis for a long-running and very popular BBC production by the same name in the 1960’s followed by a radio program in the 1970’s.However, there is a thread of humour running through all of the stories that are very reminiscent of Yorkshire vet, James Herriot - it is quite likely to be the injection of local colour. Made famous by the much-loved adaptations for radio and television, the classic tales of Dr Finlay, his senior colleague Dr Cameron and Janet, their unruffled housekeeper, remain as fresh and entertaining now as they were upon first publication. Dr Finlay's Casebook" is a delightful collection of episodic stories of Dr Finlay and his life in the fictional Scottish village of Tannochbrae during the inter-war years and based on A. The secondary characters are more developed in the latter half of the book (Adventures of a Black Bag), as if the author had grown tired of writing about inscrutable Finlay.