The Edinburgh Report

David Black talking about his Fringe play


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The play Nancy's Philosopher being staged by the Arkle Theatre Company, with Nicole Burnett Smith as Nancy Ord is on daily (not 10 August) at The Royal Scots Club.

The story centres on a young woman who scandalised Edinburgh society by falling in love with the much older David Hume, historian and philosopher.

David Black, the former journalist who write the play lives and works in Edinburgh and here he talks about the idea for the play and the story - which is set in the capital's Queen Street.

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