Which Monteath (Alec or David) acted on a show set in a fictional town based on inner-city Salford?
Alec Monteath Alec Monteath (born 22 May 1941 in Perthshire) was an announcer for Scottish Television from 1964 until 1969 and an announcer on BBC Scotland. Monteath was also an actor who played Dougal Lachlan in STV's Take the High Road from 1980 until 1992. His son, David Monteath was an actor on Coronation Street.
List of The Thick of It characters "The Thick of It" is a British television comedy programme that premiered in 2005 on BBC Four. The series satirises the inner workings of modern British government. It follows the running of a fictional Department of Social Affairs and Citizenship, and most episodes focus on that department's incumbent minister and a core cast of advisors and civil servants, under the watchful eye of Number 10's enforcer, Malcolm Tucker (Peter Capaldi). The supporting characters include people in government, in the opposition, and in the media.