 | This biographical article is written like a résumé .(July 2021) |
Fiona McAlpine is a British radio drama producer and director. Her company, Allegra Productions, is an independent production company based in Suffolk, England. [1]
| This biographical article is written like a résumé .(July 2021) |
Fiona McAlpine is a British radio drama producer and director. Her company, Allegra Productions, is an independent production company based in Suffolk, England. [1]
Current Production on BBC Radio 4. Broadcast 11, 18 April April – 25 April 2021 The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann Dramatised by Robin Brooks Based on the Translation by John E. Woods CAST Luke Thallon, Lucy Robinson, Hugh Skinner, Genevieve Gaunt, Sandy Grierson, Stephen Hogan, Keziah Joseph, Georgina Strawson, Ed Jones, Huw Brentnall, Kate Paul, Georgia Brown,Lilit Lesser. [2]
Kingmaker: Winter Pilgrims by Gregory Evans for Towton Audio 5 hour episodes. https://kingmakeraudio.com/ https://kingmakeraudio.com/cast-crew/ Launched by Towton Audio on 29 March 2021
The Brummie Iliad for BBC Radio 3 by Roderick Smith (based on Homer's Iliad) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000rtxd Broadcast 31 January 2021
USA by John Dos Passos for BBC Radio 4 - (3 episodes) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000nkhb Broadcast October to November 2020
The Talking Mongoose for BBC Radio 4 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000hvb9 Broadcast 3 June 2020
Elizabeth and Essex by Robin Brooks for BBC Radio 3 with Simon Russell Beale and the BBC Concert Orchestra Live performance at the Alexandra Palace on 3 Feb 2020 Broadcast on Radio 3 "Drama on 3" 12 April 2020. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000h6t9
The Garrick Year by Margaret Drabble adapted by Robin Brooks with Melody Grove, Tom Burke, Trystan Gravelle https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000h295 Broadcast 5 April 2020
A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines, adapted by Robert Rigby for Goldhawk Essential and BBC Radio 4 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00088gf Broadcast September 2019
Get Carter: The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter, adapted by Olivia Hetreed for BBC Radio 4 Broadcast Sept 2018 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bkqt8g
Get Carter: The Christchurch Murder (screenplay by Angela Carter) adapted by Robin Brooks for BBC Radio 4 Broadcast Sept 2018 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bknc4b
Vampirella by Angela Carter for BBC Radio 3 Come unto these Yellow Sands (producer only) for BBC Radio 3 Both plays as part of 'An Evening with Angela Carter', starring Fiona Shaw as Angela Carter Broadcast Sept 2018 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0000h9p
Byzantium by Robin Brooks for BBC Radio 3 Broadcast March 2018 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09tclyz
Remorse, or the sorrows of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, by Robin Brooks (directed by Jeremy Mortimer) Broadcast March 2016 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07f6mhd
The Dark Tower by Louis MacNeice and music by Benjamin Britten (producer only) with the BBC Concert Orchestra Performed live in front of an audience at Orford Church, Suffolk Broadcast on BBC Radio 3 Oct 2017 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09bx5l4
Iris Murdoch: Dream Girl by Robin Brooks, with Helen McCrory, Anton Lesser, Jasper Britton for BBC Radio 4 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b066fxt1 Broadcast August 2015
The Sea, The Sea, by Iris Murdoch, dramatised by Robin Brooks, directed by Bill Alexander, Produced by Fiona McAlpine with Jeremy Irons, Simon Williams, Joanna David, Sara Kestelman. Broadcast August 2015 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b066ttr9
The Boy from Aleppo who painted the War by Richard Kurti and Bev Doyle for B7 Productions and BBC Radio 4 Broadcast Sept 2014 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04nqpd0
Then see table below: from 2003 to 2013
Missed out from table below (2001 and 2003)
2001 - Love and Friendship by Jane Austen, Adapted by Robin Brooks Produced & Directed by Fiona McAlpine, Exec. Producer: Clive Brill (Pacificus Productions) for BBC Radio 4 Afternoon drama Cast: David Tennant, Victoria Hamilton, David Horovitch, Janet Jeffries.
2003 - 7 August A Quick Change by Robin Brooks Produced and Directed by Fiona McAlpine, Exec. Producer : Clive Brill (Pacificus productions), for BBC Radio 4 Cast: David Tennant, Ashley Jenson, Flora Montgomery, Alan Cox, Raza Jaffrey, Mark Spalding, Barbara Dryhurst, Jonathan Tafler https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/b5724855e3d948538c7148f66177d56d
Theatre: Directed and Produced Britten's Got Talent a new play about Benjamin Britten by Robin Brooks at the New Wolsey Studio, 2013. https://www.wolseytheatre.co.uk/shows/brittens-got-talent/ with Keith Hill, Jonathan Hansler, Sam Dale, Gilian Cally, Joseph Reed, Theo Christie, Sam Bell Music by Matthew Sheeran, Songs by Damian Evans, Choreography by Louisa McAlpine
Abridgement: She also abridges books and stories for radio.
Fiona McAlpine directed Duce's Bonce about her great-aunt the Irish aristocrat Hon. Violet Gibson who tried to assassinate Benito Mussolini in 1926, [3] and Jon Canter's I Love Stephen Fry in which Stephen Fry played a cameo role. [4]
Fiona McAlpine has abridged for radio:
| Radio Plays Directed or Produced by Fiona McAlpine | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date first broadcast | Play | Author | Cast | Synopsis Awards | Station Series |
| 2003-12-26 | The Smallest Man in Christendom | Robin Brooks | Lucy Robinson, David Holt, Desmond Barrit, Alan Cox, Charlie Simpson, Julie Cox, John McAndrew, Terry Smith, Felix Still and Tom Raphael Eaves | This Christmas entertainment tells the true story of Jeffrey Hudson whose extraordinary adventures are celebrated in a masque. His presentation in a pie to King Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria, his daring exploits in the Civil War, and his astonishing fate, are acted out by a motley cast in Radio Drama's virtual theatre. | BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play [12] |
| 2005-05-23 | The Last Days of Gordon Springer | Richard Stevens | Alicya Eyo, Regina Freedman, Lara Haworth, David Horovitch, Jasmine Hyde, Stephen Mangan, Catherine Shepherd and Karl Theobald | Gordon Springer has an almost God-like power over the office network. He can tap into any of his colleagues' personal secrets whenever he likes – because he is the IT manager. | BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play |
| 2006-05-30 | Duce's Bonce [3] [13] | Robin Brooks | Catherine McCormack, Maureen Beattie, Adrian Rawlins, Nicholas Woodeson and Sarah Eedle | By 1956, the Hon Violet Gibson has been in an asylum for over 20 years – and she seems finally to have lost touch with reality. Half the time she doesn't know who the Prime Minister is, and she has this mad idea that she shot Benito Mussolini. Based on a true story. | BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play |
| 2007-12-28 | A Warning to the Furious [14] | Robin Brooks | Lucy Robinson, Catherine Shepherd, Carl Prekopp, Gerard McDermott and Andrew Wincott | A feminist film-maker and her crew visit the Suffolk coast to make a documentary about ghost story writer MR James. They hope to discover how an outwardly respectable bachelor could produce such disturbing horrors. | BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play |
| 2008-07-03 | I Love Stephen Fry [15] | Jon Canter | Stephen Fry, Lesley Sharp, Phil Davis, Carolyn Pickles, Ron Cook, Sinead Matthews and Karl Theobald | Jackie, a woman with a midlife crisis and a snoring husband, starts to fantasise about other men. In her dreams, Jackie is in love with Stephen Fry – who is everything her husband is not: eloquent, metropolitan, learned and gay. But what does Stephen think and should she tell him she loves him? | BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play |
| 2008-08-07 | Left at Marrakech [16] | Richard Stevens | Will Keen, Jonathan Cullen, Clare Corbett, Alan Cox, Nicholas Rowe and Ben Lewis | In 1943, a B-17 takes off from Florida on its way to active service in England, embarking on a flight via Puerto Rico, Dakar and Marrakech. Joining the American crew are two British hitchhikers, who need a lift home. One of them, an attractive WAAF, seems to be a good omen – she looks like the painted figure on their fuselage. But each leg of the journey is beset with increasing difficulty and danger. Is someone on board not what they seem to be? | BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play |
| 2009-06-11 | Taken [Note 1] [17] [18] | Suzanne Heathcote | Will Keen, Brigit Forsyth, Joseph Kloska, Wendy Nottingham, Jasmine Hyde, Alex Woodhall, Crispin Clover, Leighton Martin, Nicola Fox and Amelia Rubra | The disappearance of a little girl in Simon's town brings home the fact that, since his divorce, his own daughter has no idea who he is. Fuelled by alcohol and nightmares, Simon's obsession with finding the missing girl and his failure to be a good father pushes him to the edge. | BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play |
| 2013-03-30 | Jill [Note 2] [19] | Philip Larkin, Robin Brooks | Samuel Barnett, Jessica Raine, Richard Goulding, Frank Dillane, and Grace Englert | John Kemp, a Northern Grammar boy arrives at Oxford for his first term. Socially awkward and inexperienced, he finds he is sharing rooms with the upper class Christopher Warner, whose brash loutish behaviour both intimidates and attracts him. Jill is a subtle and moving account of a young man facing the big issues of life - sex and class - and retreating into the world of the imagination. | BBC Radio 4 Classic Serial |
| 2013-04-07 | A Girl in Winter [Note 3] [20] | Philip Larkin, Richard Stevens | Carolyn Genzkow, Jolyon Coy, and Sinead Matthews | In wintery wartime Britain, Katherine Lind, exiled and alone, endures her job as an assistant in an obscure provincial library with an unpleasant boss and unfriendly colleagues. Frozen in time and tragedy, her past is gone - and with it her family, her friends, her old life. She is living moment by moment. But on this cold, bleak Saturday, news from an English family she once knew forces her to relive the idyllic summer she spent with them six years before. | BBC Radio 4 Classic Serial |
Notes:
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