Allegra Productions Current work

 

BBC Radio 3

Elzabeth and Essex

by Lytton Strachey, adapted by Robin Brooks

Korngold's Elizabeth and Essex suite.

with the BBC Concert Orchestra & Conductor Robert Ziegler

February 3rd, 2020 Alexandra Palace

 

 

Radio Drama

2018 Productions

 

Angela Carter Season: Get Carter  BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 3

 

The Christchurch Murder   Sat 22nd Sept  2.30

An Evening With Angela Carter

Vampirella and Come Unto These Yellow Sands  Sun 23rd Sept 7.30

The Bloody Chamber  Mon to Fri 24th to 28th Sept 10.40 & 7.45

 

Byzantium  BBC Radio 3 March 4th 2018

 

2017 productions

 

THE DARK TOWER by Louis MacNeice

with music by Benjamin Britten

Directed by Robin Brooks, Produced by Fiona McAlpine

with the BBC Concert Orchestra, conducted by Robert Ziegler

Orford Church, October 27th & 28th 2017

with Snape Maltings & BBC Radio 3

With Harry Lloyd, Adrian Scarborough, Lucy Robinson,

Jude Akududike, Jonjo O'Neill, Mattthew Tennyson, Georgie Glen,

Sam Dale, Nicholas Murchie, Manjinder Virk, Hannah Genesius, William Gidney.

 

2016 Productions

 

REMORSE, or, THE SORROWS OF SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

by Robin Brooks,  directed by Jeremy Mortimer, produced by

Fiona McApine.  With Alex Waldmann, Tim McInnerny, Jamie Glover, Christine Entwisle, Clare Corbett, Carl Prekopp, Tilly Gaunt & Samuel Valentine.

 

2015 Productons

 

For Audible originals (shortlisted for best online Drama at

BBC Audio Drama Awards 2016)

 

CARMILLA by J.Sheridan Le Fanu

with David Tennant, Rose Leslie, Phoebe Fox, James Wilby,

Susan Wooldridge, David Horovitch, Lucy Robinson, Hannah Genesius, Michael Shelford, Mia Hall, and Kitty Peterkin.  Adapted by Robin Brooks, Produced and Directed by Fiona McAlpine, with original music by Matthew Sheeran and sound design by Alisdair McGregor.  

 

For BBC Radio  4

 

I AM THE VERY MODEL OF A MODERN MAJOR GENERAL

by Simon Butteriss and Robin Brooks

starring Simon Butteriss (as Grossmith), Rupert Vansittart (as Gilbert )and Alex Jennings (as Sullivan). To be broadcast on Radio 4 at Christmas. 21st to 25th December 10.45 and 19.45 mon-fri

 

'THE SEA, THE  SEA, by Iris Murdoch

A two part dramatisation of The Sea, The Sea' by Iris Murdoch was on in the Summer,  adapted by Robin Brooks. Directed by Bill Alexander.  Starring Jeremy Irons, Sara Kestelman, Maggie Steed, Simon Williams, Joanna David, Tim McInnerny, Antony Calf, Matthew Tennyson, David Horovitch and Nick Underwood.

 

IRIS MURDOCH : DREAM GIRL', by Robin Brooks, an original drama about Iris Murdoch for Radio 4, with Helen McCrory, Anton Lesser, Jasper Britton, Amanda Root, Jonathan Cullen and Richard Goulding, Emily Joyce and Hannah Genesius.