Quartered Safe Out Here
by George MacDonald Fraser
Dramatised by Robin Brooks
GEORGE . . . . . Nicholas Nunn
HUTTON . . . . . James Atherton
GRANDARSE . . . . . Oliver Huntingdon
FORSTER . . . . . Charlie Archer
NIXON . . . . . Daniel Rainford
DUKE . . . . . James Anthony-Rose
PARKER . . . . . Ben Elder
LONG JOHN . . . . . Theo Fraser Steele
JENKINS. . . . . Richard Bates
Broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on July 20th 2025
Picture credit: George MacDonald Fraser in uniform, 1945 - courtesy of Nicholas Fraser.
Moominsummer Madness
Tove Jansson
Adapted by Robin Brooks
Broadcast on June 22nd 2025 on BBC Radio 4
With John Finnemore, Samantha Bond, Samuel West, Clare Corbett, Ann Byrson, Jasmine Naziha Jones, Alex Waldmann, Rosanna Miles, Naomi Wirthner, Gavi Singh Chera, Jack Gogarty, Rosie Walker.
Directed by Fiona McAlpine
Christmas Pudding by Nancy Mitford
Adapted by Robin Brooks
Broadcast on December 22nd 2024 on BBC Radio 4
With James Anthony-Rose, Charlie Cameron, Charlotte Parry, Georgie Glen, Jack Gogarty,
Peter Hamilton-Dyer, Rosanna Miles, Theo Fraser Steele, Isaac Franklin and Hilary Greatorex
Directed by Fiona McAlpine
Frank Bascombe : An American Life
by Richard Ford
Dramatised by Robin Brooks
Four episodes broadcast over 2024.
Ep 1: The Sportswriter (Broadcast 7th April 2024)
Cast
FRANK BASCOMBE: Kyle Soller
ANN (FRANK'S EX-WIFE): Lydia Wilson
WALTER LUCKETT: Martin T Sherman
VICKI ARCENAULT: Yolanda Kettle
LYNETTE ARCENAULT: Laurel Lefkow
WADE ARCENAULT: Brandon Burke
HERB WALLAGHER / BENIVALLE: William Hope
FINCHER / CADE ARCENAULT: Eric Stroud
CATHERINE FLAHERTY: Georgia Brown
Ep 2: Independence Day (Broadcast 30th June 2024)
Cast
FRANK BASCOMBE: Kyle Soller
ANN : Lydia Wilson
SALLY: Jennifer Armour
PAUL: Christopher Buckley
CHARLEY: William Hope
CLARISSA: Karolina Ezrow
CHARLANE : Isaura Barbé-Brown
DR TISARIS: Angelique Fernandez
Ep 3: The Lay of the Land (Broadcast 24 Nov 2024)
FRANK BASCOMBE: Kyle Soller
ANN : Kelly Burke
CLARISSA: Hannah Genesius
SALLY: Melody Grove
PAUL: Christopher Buckley
COOKIE / JILL : Lily Anne Lefkow
DETECTIVE MARINARA: Eric Stroud
THOM / PARAMEDIC: Robert Mountford
OFFICER GREGGS: Amelia Parillon
NICK FEENSTER : Tayla Kovacevic-Ebong
Ep 4: Let me be Frank with You (Broadcast 1st Dec 2024)
Cast
FRANK: Kyle Soller
SALLY: Melody Grove
ARNIE : Nathan Osgood
ANN : Kelly Burke
CLARISSA: Hannah Genesius
MS PINES: Alana Maria
BUCK : Eric Stroud
EDDIE : Robert G Slade
FINESSE : Amelia Parillon
EZEKIEL : Tayla Kovacevic-Ebong
Directed and produced by Fiona McAlpine.
Sound by Joseff Harris and Alisdair McGregor
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
Adapted by Robin Brooks
Broadcast on BBC Radio 4, December 23rd 2023
John Finnemore as Moomintroll
Samantha Bond, Samuel West, Clare Corbett, Jasmine Naziha Jones, Cyril Nri, Adam Colbourne, Ann Bryson, Edalia Day
Directed by Fiona McAlpine
Sound Design by Lucinda Mason Brown
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
Broadcast October 4th 2022 on BBC Radio 4
Cast
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
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
Heartstrings
by Imogen Lea
Broadcast Oct 5th 2022
Cast
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
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.
