Fiona McAlpine
Radio drama director, Radio drama producer
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 in 2015–2021
Kingmaker: Winter Pilgrims by Gregory Evans for Towton Audio 5 hour episodes.
Launched by Towton Audio on 29 March 2021
The Brummie Iliad for BBC Radio 3 by Roderick Smith (based on Homer's Iliad)
Broadcast 31 January 2021
USA by John Dos Passos for BBC Radio 4 - (3 episodes)
Broadcast October to November 2020
The Talking Mongoose for BBC Radio 4
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.
The Garrick Year by Margaret Drabble adapted by Robin Brooks with Melody Grove, Tom Burke, Trystan Gravelle
Broadcast 5 April 2020
A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines, adapted by Robert Rigby for Goldhawk Essential and BBC Radio 4
Broadcast September 2019
Get Carter: The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter, adapted by Olivia Hetreed for BBC Radio 4
Broadcast Sept 2018
Get Carter: The Christchurch Murder (screenplay by Angela Carter) adapted by Robin Brooks for BBC Radio 4
Broadcast Sept 2018
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
Byzantium by Robin Brooks for BBC Radio 3
Broadcast March 2018
Remorse, or the sorrows of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, by Robin Brooks (directed by Jeremy Mortimer)
Broadcast March 2016
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
Iris Murdoch: Dream Girl by Robin Brooks, with Helen McCrory, Anton Lesser, Jasper Britton for BBC Radio 4
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
The Boy from Aleppo who painted the War by Richard Kurti and Bev Doyle for B7 Productions and BBC Radio 4
Broadcast Sept 2014
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.
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