Fiona McAlpine is a British

radio drama Radio drama (or audio drama, audio play, radio play, radio theatre, or audio theatre) is a dramatized, purely acoustic performance. With no visual component, radio drama depends on dialogue, music and sound effects to help the listener imagine ...

producer and director. Her company, Allegra Productions, is an independent production company based in Suffolk, England.

Works

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.''

Dramas produced and directed by Fiona McAlpine 2015 to 2021

''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

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aristocrat Hon. Violet Gibson who tried to assassinate

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in 1926, and

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's '' I Love Stephen Fry'' in which

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played a

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. Fiona McAlpine has

abridged An abridgement (or abridgment) is a condensing or reduction of a book or other creative work into a shorter form while maintaining the unity of the source. The abridgement can be true to the original work in terms of mood and tone, capturing the ...

for radio: *''In Cold Blood'' by

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*''Seeds of Greatness'' by

*''The Rapture'' by

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*''Enoch's Two Letters'' by

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*''No Name in the Street'' by

*''The Caller'' by

*''The Story of a Marriage'' by

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BBC – Book at Bedtime – ''The Story of a Marriage''
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Radio plays

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