Glasgow City Chambers
Victorian council headquarters with a sweeping marble staircase that has stood in for the Vatican on film.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Glasgow City Chambers on George Square follows a day of filming in nineteen eighty-three, when the actress Coral Browne came here to play herself in Alan Bennett's BBC drama An Englishman Abroad. It reaches back to a Moscow tour of Hamlet in nineteen fifty-eight and an unexpected visitor to her dressing room. Along the way you'll hear about the other roles this marble staircase has taken on screen. Best heard in George Square facing the main entrance, or inside at the foot of the stairs.
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