Fiona McAlpine

Fiona McAlpine is a radio drama producer and director. 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,[1] and Jon Canter's I Love Stephen Fry in which Stephen Fry played a cameo role.[2]

Fiona McAlpine has abridged for radio:

Radio plays
Radio Plays Directed or Produced by Fiona McAlpine
Date first broadcast Play Author Cast Synopsis
Awards		 Station
Series
26 December 2003 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[10]
23 May 2005 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
30 May 2006 Duce's Bonce[1][11] 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
28 December 2007 A Warning to the Furious[12] 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
3 July 2008 I Love Stephen Fry[13] 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
7 August 2008 Left at Marrakech[14] 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
11 June 2009 Taken[Note 1][15][16] 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
30 March 2013 Jill[Note 2][17] 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
7 April 2013 A Girl in Winter[Note 3][18] 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:

  1. Producer: Fiona McAlpine, Director: Carl Prekopp
  2. Producer: Fiona McAlpine, Adapted by: Robin Brooks
  3. Producer: Fiona McAlpine, Adapted by: Richard Stevens


References
  1. Radio: Pick of the day, Phil Daoust, The Guardian, 30 May 2006
  2. BBC – Arts and Drama – Jon Canter on I Love Stephen Fry
  3. BBC – Book at Bedtime – In Cold Blood
  4. BBC – Book at Bedtime – Seeds of Greatness
  5. BBC – Book at Bedtime – The Rapture
  6. BBC – Afternoon Reading – Alan Sillitoe Short Stories: Enoch's Two Letters
  7. BBC – Afternoon Reading – Alan Sillitoe Short Stories: No Name in the Street
  8. BBC – Afternoon Reading – Alan Sillitoe Short Stories: The Caller
  9. BBC – Book at Bedtime – The Story of a Marriage
  10. BBC – Afternoon Play
  11. Radio – Martin Hoyle, Financial Times, 30 May 2006
  12. BBC – Afternoon Play – A Warning to the Furious
  13. BBC – Afternoon Play – I Love Stephen Fry
  14. BBC – Afternoon Play – Left at Marrakech
  15. BBC – Afternoon Play – Taken
  16. BBC – Press Office – Afternoon Play – Taken
  17. "Jill Classic Serial, A Larkin Double".
  18. "A Girl in Winter Classic Serial, A Larkin Double".
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