Fiona McAlpine

Fiona McAlpine is a British radio drama 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 Irish aristocrat Hon. Violet Gibson who tried to assassinate Benito Mussolini in 1926, and Jon Canter's I Love Stephen Fry in which Stephen Fry played a cameo role.

Fiona McAlpine has abridged for radio:
 * In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
 * Seeds of Greatness by Jon Canter
 * The Rapture by Liz Jensen
 * Enoch's Two Letters by Alan Sillitoe
 * No Name in the Street by Alan Sillitoe
 * The Caller by Alan Sillitoe
 * The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer

Radio plays
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