Frank Bascombe : An American Life
by Richard Ford
Adapted by Robin Brooks
Sunday June 30th 2024
3pm on BBC Radio 4
Episode Two : Independence Day
with Kyle Soller, Lydia Wilson, Christopher Buckley,
Jennifer Armour, William Hope, Angelique Fernandez, Isaura Barbe-Brown
Directed and produced by Fiona McAlpine
Sound by Joseff Harris and Alisdair McGregor
FRANK BASCOMBE : AN AMERICAN LIFE
by Richard Ford
Episode One - The Sportswriter
Dramatised by Robin Brooks
Starring Kyle Soller as Frank Bascombe
with
Lydia Wilson, Yolanda Kettle, Martin T Sherman, William Hope, Laurel Lefkow, Brandon Burke,
Eric Stroud, Georgia Brown
Sound Design by Joseff Harris and Alisdair McGregor
April 7th 2024 on BBC Radio 4
Picture Credit : In the Car by Roy Lichtensein © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein/DACS 2024. Photo: National Galleries of Scotland
Comet in Moominland
by Tove Jansson
Dramatised by Robin Brooks
Directed by Fiona McAlpine
Sound Design by Lucinda Mason Brown
with John Finnemore as Moomintroll
Samantha Bond, Samuel West, Clare Corbett, Jasmine Naziha Jones, Cyril Nri, Adam Colbourne, Ann Bryson, Edalia Day
Broadcast on BBC Radio 4, Decembe 23rd 2023
The Venice Conundrum
by Robin Brooks
From the Works of Jan Morris
with Edalia Day, Theo Fraser Steele, Peter Hamilton Dyer, Gilian Cally, Mary Malone, Julian Harries, Leon Bedwell, Bunny Cook,
Nigel Campbell, Patrick Brown
Directed by Fiona McAlpine
Sound Design by Alisdair McGregor
Broadcast on BBC Radio 4, July 30th 2023
Nominated for BEST DRAMA - ARIAS 2024.
Nighthawks, 1942 by Edward Hopper
Courtesy of The Art Institute of Chicago / Art Resource, NY/ Scala, Florence
BBC Radio 3
THE AGE OF ANXIETY
by W. H. Auden
Adapted by Robin Brooks
Cast: Julian Bleach, John Light, Jonjo O'Neill, Genevieve Gaunt, Luke Thallon
Directed by Fiona McAlpine
Sound Design by Jon Nicholls
Broadcast as Drama on 3 on Sunday 27th November 2022. 7.30pm
Repeated on Sunday 27th October 2024 8pm
on BBC Sounds now.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001fswl
Nominated for Best Adaptation at the BBC Audio Awards 2024
About a Dog
by Huw Brentnall
with Felix Uff, Henri Merriam, Huw Brentnall, Sally Anne Burnett, Dean Parkin, Robin Brooks, Charlotte Parry, Dave Redgrave, Ben Elder and Francesca Parry.
Directed by Fiona McAlpine
Sound by Alisdair McGregor
BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Drama on October 4th 2022
Available to listen BBC Sounds
About a Dog by Huw Brentnall was shortlisted for the Tinniswood Award 2024
About a Dog by Huw Brentnall
Directed by Fiona McAlpine, Allegra Productions, BBC Radio 4 | Listen here
About a Dog is a black comedy set in rural Suffolk in the early Noughties. Danny Mouser is about to turn 30. He’s a tiler, a husband to Tracey, and a father to little Jade. But he’s always looking out for his wayward cousin Lee: poacher, former butcher, and all round wrong’un who recently lost his mum and has taken custody of her dog, Daisy.
One day when Danny hits a pheasant with his van he sets off a chain of unfortunate events that unfold over a weekend, including a crate of deadly home brew, an assault on a police officer and, worst of all, a case of mistaken-dog-identity. Danny’s values are put into stark relief, and he may have to choose between being wingman to a free spirit, and being a good husband and father to his family.
Huw Brentnall is an award-winning writer and actor out of Suffolk, trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Work by Huw has been showcased by the Old Red Lion in Islington, Kino London, INK Writers’ Festival, and the BBC. Huw’s debut stage play, Quiz, enjoyed a sell-out run at the 2016 Edinburgh Fringe Festival and received five stars from Broadway Baby. Since then, Huw has written and performed extensively for stage, screen, and radio, and is currently developing a comedy-drama series, East of Eden, co-written with writer and actor Felix Uff. His most recent piece, About a Dog, commissioned by Allegra Productions for BBC Radio 4, was broadcast in October 2022. It is his first radio play.
Heartstrings
by Imogen Lea
with Rosalind Burt, Charlie Layburn, Gilian Cally, Judith Street and Greg Powles
Original music song and performed by Jessica Temple
Directed by Fiona McAlpine
Sound by Jon Nicholls
Broadcast on Oct 5th 2022
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001cpbq
Moominland Midwinter courtesy of © Moomin Characters™
Moominland Midwinter by Tove Jansson
Adapted by Robin Brooks, produced and directed by Fiona McAlpine
Sound Design by Lucinda Mason Brown
Cast:
John Finnemore, Samantha Bond, Rakie Ayola, Clare Corbett, Richard Goulding,
Ann Bryson, Farshid Rokey, Jasmine Naziah Jones, David Holt
Broadcast Christmas Day, Radio 4, Dec 25th 2021
Drama on 3, BBC Radio 3, on Sun 12th Dec 2021
Don Juan
by Lord Byron
Dramatised by Robin Brooks
The Finding Don Juan by Haidee by Ford Madox Brown.
Birmingham Museums Trust, licensed under CC0
DON JUAN by Lord Byron
Adapted by Robin Brooks
Directed and produced by Fiona McAlpine
Sound Design by Alisdair McGregor
Cast:
Edward Bennett, Julian Bleach, Pippa Nixon
Nicholas Murchie, Dolores Carbonari, Bettrys Jones,
Keziah Joseph, Kate Paul, Cyril Nri, Mark Spalding,
Harmony Rose-Bremner, Barbara Dryhurst, Kate Morgan-Jones,
Charlie Layburn, Alexandra Ewing.
The King Must Die
by Mary Renault
BBC Radio 4 on August 1st and August 8th, 2021
Picture credit ©Trustees of the British Museum
THE KING MUST DIE
by Mary Renault
Adapted by Robin Brooks
Directed & Produced by Fiona McAlpine
Original Music by Matthew Sheeran
Sound Design by Wilfredo Acosta
Cast
Shane Zaza, Rakie Ayola, Raad Rawi,
Roderick Smith, Tessa Wojtczak,
Barbara Peirson, Lawrence Werber,
Annie Haworth, Richard Braine,
Theo Fraser Steele, Michael Gukas,
Joe McArdle, Charlie Archer, Richard Bates, Sophie Walter, Heidi Parsons, Jack Heydon,
Harmony Rose-Bremner, Sam Henderson, Alexander Finch, Bruno Finch
The Magic Mountain
by Thomas Mann
Dramatised by Robin Brooks
from a translation by John E. Woods
April 2021 on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds
Produced and Directed by Fiona McAlpine
Cast: Luke Thallon, Hugh Skinner, Lucy Robinson, Genevieve Gaunt, Sandy Grierson,
Richard Harrington, Keziah Joseph, Georgina Strawson, Kate Paul, Lilit Lesser,
Stephen Hogan, Huw Brentnall, Ed Jones, Georgia Brown
Image by Gonzalo Ordoñez
The Brummie Iliad
by Roderick Smith
based on Homer’s Iliad
Director/Producer: Fiona McAlpine
Cast:
John Light, Annette Badland, Kevin McNally, Roderick Smith, Joe Dixon, Nicolas Tenant, Flora Spencer-Longhurst, Mark Spalding, Pushpinder Chani, Doña Croll, Susie Riddell, Chris Nayak, Jack Loxton, Helen Adie, Simeon Blake-Hall,
USA by John Dos Passos
Dramatised in three parts by Robin Brooks
part of BBC Radio 4’s Electric Decade Season 2020
Produced and Directed by Fiona McAlpine.
Sound Design Lucinda Mason Brown
Cast: Tom Bateman, Tanya Reynolds, Sheila Atim, Luke Thallon, Kelly Burke, Hannah Genesius, Tayla Kovacevic-Ebong, Genevieve Gaunt, Will Howard, Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, Laurel Lefkow, Adam Courting, Gabriel Freilich, Christopher Ragland, Eric Meyers, Jessica Philippi, Calam Lynch, Robert G. Slade, Lily Lefkow-Green, Georgia Brown, John Chancer.
THE TALKING MONGOOSE
a drama documentary by Robin Brooks, produced and directed for BBC Radio 4 by Fiona McAlpine,
The strange but true story of Gef the Talking Mongoose, and the dreadful trouble he caused at BBC Broadcasting House in the 1930s.
Cast: Patrick Marlowe, Jasmine Naziha Jones, Gillian Cally, Helen Vine.
Elizabeth and Essex by Robin Brooks for BBC Radio 3
with the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Robert Ziegler
co-produced and directed by Fiona McAlpine and Robin Brooks
Broadcast on BBC Radio 3 ‘Drama on 3’ on 12th April 2020
Cast: Simon Russell-Beale, Harry Lloyd, Nancy Carroll and Julian Harries.
The Garrick Year, by Margaret Drabble
adapted by Robin Brooks and produced and directed by Fiona McAlpine for BBC Radio, April 5th 2020
Cast:
Melody Grove, Tom Burke, Trystan Gravelle, Georgina Strawson, Mark Spalding, Karan Gill, Rose Reade, Phoebe Fildes, Rose Shepherd Lewis.
GET CARTER: Angela Carter season on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 3
Come Unto These Yellow Sands and Vampirella
Vampirella
Come Unto These Yellow Sands
“An Evening with Angela Carter”
With Fiona Shaw as Angela Carter
BBC Radio 3 September 2018
Produced by Fiona McAlpine
Directors: Fiona McAlpine (Vampirella)
Robin Brooks (Come Unto These Yellow Sands)
Sound Design: Wilfredo Acosta
Cast:
Vampirella: Fiona Shaw, Jessica Raine, Oliver Chris, Anton Lesser, Kevin McMonagle
Come Unto These Yellow Sands: Monica Dolan, Robert Pugh, James Anthony- Rose, Pip Torrens, Tilly Vosburgh, Nicholas Murchie, Noof McEwan, Jasmine Naziha Jones, Tom Forester.
Get Carter:
Angela Carter Season
on BBC Radio 4.
Angela Carter’s unmade screenplay, The Christchurch Murder,
Adapted by Robin Brooks, directed & Produced by Fiona McAlpine
with Fiona Shaw, James Wilby, Nancy Carroll, Adrian Lukis, Erin Wallace, Dolores Carbonari, Julia Deakin, Gerard McDermott, Eddie Mann, Sara Lynam, Kirsty Gillmore, Dianne Weller, Acushla Tara-Kupe, Rex Duis, Thomas Meeson
The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
Adapted by Olivia Hetreed
Directed & Produced by Fiona McAlpine,
Sound Design by Lucinda Mason Brown
with Fiona Shaw, Sophie Cookson, Jasper Britton, Nigel Pilkington, Rakie Ayola, Ariyon Bakare, Jasmine Nazhia Jones, Hannah Genesius, Adjoa Andoh, Susan Wooldridge, Tessa Wojtczak, Lilit Lesser, Alexander Vlahos, Phyllida Law, Jonathan Tafler, Phoebe Fildes, Jalleh Alizadeh, Tre Gordon, Grace Englert, Tom Clegg.
