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Nature Writing and Stories
McLevy
BBC RADIO 4 | SHORT READINGS
SUNDAY 7; 14; & 21 SEPTEMBER 19:45
BBC RADIO 4 | AFTERNOON DRAMA
TO BE BROADCAST IN 2015
The Bone Clocks
The Meet-Cute
BBC RADIO 4 | BOOK AT BEDTIME
SUNDAY 22 SEPTEMBER - 10 OCTOBER 22:45
BBC RADIO 4 | AFTERNOON DRAMA
WEDNESDAY 31 DECEMBER 14:15
BBC Scotland
RADIO DRAMA
Out There
BBC RADIO 4 | SHORT READINGS
SUNDAY 28 SEPTEMBER; 5 & 12 OCTOBER 19:45
Going Spare
BBC RADIO SCOTLAND | DRAMA
TUESDAY 30 SEPTEMBER 13:32
BBC RADIO SCOTLAND | DRAMA
FRIDAY 31 OCTOBER 15:05
BBC RADIO 4 | SATURDAY DRAMA
SATURDAY 8 NOVEMBER 14:30
R4 BOOK OF THE WEEK
TX 10-14 NOVEMBER
Planning Permission
BBC RADIO 4 | AFTERNOON DRAMA
THURSDAY 13 NOVEMBER 14:15
The Dead of
Fenwick Moor
BBC RADIO SCOTLAND | DRAMA
MONDAY 17 NOVEMBER 13:32
Behind Closed Doors
BBC RADIO 4 | AFTERNOON DRAMA
MONDAY 1; TUESDAY 2; & WEDNESDAY 3 DECEMBER 14:15
Academy Street
BBC RADIO 4 | BOOK AT BEDTIME
MONDAY 8 - FRIDAY 19 DECEMBER 22:45
The Giffnock Girls
BBC RADIO 4 | AFTERNOON DRAMA
TUESDAY 16 DECEMBER 14:15
Dogfood Diary
BBC RADIO 4 | AFTERNOON DRAMA
FRIDAY 19 DECEMBER 14:15
RADIO DRAMA
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Forensics
by Iain Mc
Lanark
Illustration
Moyamensing: Scenes From
The Life, Death & Dreams Of
Edgar Allan Poe
Nature Writing
and Stories
Out There
By Allan Radcliffe;
Tat Usher and
Kerry Hudson
By Jessie Kesson
BBC RADIO 4 | SHORT READINGS
SUNDAY 7; 14; & 21 SEPTEMBER 19:45
A series of readings from the work of the
acclaimed Scottish author Jessie Kesson. Best
known for her novels "Another Time, Another
Place" and "The White Bird Passes", Jessie
Kesson's writing was often inspired by events
from her own life and by the landscape of North
East Scotland. The first episode, "Country
Dweller's Year", features extracts from a journal
she kept for the Scots Magazine during 1946; in
episode two, "Cold in Coventry" a young girl
fears for her future when she is sacked from her
first job in service; and, finally, "Until Such Times"
a child is bewildered by the ways of the adult
world. The readers are Claire Knight, Lizzy Watts
and Helen Mackay.
Producer: Kirsteen Cameron
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The Bone
Clocks
By David Mitchell;
abridged by Robin Brooks
BBC RADIO 4 | BOOK AT BEDTIME
SUNDAY 22 SEPTEMBER - 10 OCTOBER 22:45
This ambitious, much-anticipated new novel from
the author of Cloud Atlas is one to lose yourself
in.
The Bone Clocks is an intricate feat of storytelling
revealing one woman's life through those who
encounter her. The journey has a global and
historical sweep, taking us from 1980s Kent via
19th Century Australia to a near future New York
with a playfully genre-bending subplot.
Our Book at Bedtime will be read by a stellar
cast of five actors over three weeks. We open
with Hannah Arterton as Holly Sykes, 15 years
old in 1980s Gravesend. Then Luke Treadaway is
Cambridge student Hugo Lamb, likeable, good
looking, and extremely dangerous. Joe
Armstrong is Ed Bruebeck, a foreign correspondent in the current decade, struggling to overcome
the gaps between his life at home and the loss
he experiences daily at work. Robert Glenister is
Crispin Hershey, once the wild child of British
letters, a novelist now past his best-selling peak.
And Laurel Lefkow is Dr Marinus, a psychiatrist
from the seventh century who meets Holly Sykes
in a near-future America.
Producer: Allegra McIlroy
BBC RADIO 4 | SHORT READINGS
SUNDAY 28 SEPTEMBER; 5 & 12 OCTOBER
19:45
Stories from a new anthology celebrating the
work of Scottish Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and
Transgender writers.
Outing by Allan Radcliffe
Read by Liam Brennan
A man sits on a station platform reflecting back
on his life and on the love he’s experienced
exclusively behind closed doors.
The Constant Heart by Tat Usher
Read by Jimmy Chisholm
A quirky tale about a down-trodden baker living
on a Scottish island.
Grown on this Beach by Kerry Hudson
Read by Meg Fraser
A touching and poetic story about a woman
talking through her past relationships with her
new found love.
Producer/director: Kirsty Williams
Forensics
by Val McDermid
R4 BOOK OF THE WEEK
TX 10-14 NOVEMBER
A thrilling read taking in the science and history
of criminal policing from best-selling Scottish
crime writer Val McDermid.
Producer: Allegra McIlroy
Academy
Street
by Mary Costello;
abridged by
Kirsteen Cameron
BBC RADIO 4 | BOOK AT BEDTIME
MONDAY 8 - FRIDAY 19 DECEMBER 22:45
Debut literary novel by the accomplished Irish
short story writer Mary Costello. Academy Street
recounts the life of Irish farmer’s daughter, Tess,
in a series of spare vignettes that are punctuated
by beautifully evoked epiphanies; opening with
Tess aged seven and trying to understand her
mother’s death, through to her emigration to
America to work as a nurse in New York; a
passionate ‘encounter’ with a friend of a friend
who leaves her pregnant after their one night
together and her struggle to raise her son, Theo,
alone.
Played out against the backdrop of American life
over forty years, it resonates with the rhythms of
memory and of home, as well as those of
America’s greatest city. It tells an intimate story
about love, loss and longing, and the perpetual
ache for belonging.
Producer: Kirsteen Cameron
Lanark
By Alasdair Gray
Dramatised for radio by
Robin Brooks with
Alasdair Gray
Lanark
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Scenes From
The Life, Death &
Dreams Of
Edgar Allan Poe
by Marty Ross
BBC RADIO 4 | SATURDAY DRAMA
SATURDAY 8 NOVEMBER 14:30
BBC RADIO SCOTLAND | DRAMA
FRIDAY 31 OCTOBER 15:05
The first radio dramatisation of Alasdair Gray’s
modern masterpiece and cult classic.
Recorded live at the CCA Glasgow.
Edgar Allan Poe - drunk, desolate, deathhaunted - finds things getting worse as he is
locked overnight in Philadelphia's Moyamensing
Prison where his worst nightmares await him. An
obscure but true incident from the closing act of
Poe's tragic life inspires a surreal, scary and
darkly comic psychological portrait of the tragic
genius.
Lanark is a novel that changed the face of
Scottish literature for a generation and propelled
the visual artist Alasdair Gray into the literary
limelight. It’s a novel that spans 3 worlds in four
books, and tells the connected stories of
Duncan Thaw – an art student at Glasgow’s Art
School – and Lanark – a man who finds himself
out of context in a world both familiar and
strange…
Lanark arrives in Unthank, a city with no sun and
no sense of time. It’s an endless present, but
there are ways to escape – people disappear
mysteriously, others succumb to the strange
diseases this peculiar form of hell generates.
Lanark’s escape will take him into another circle
of hell where he’ll hear the story of a life that was
once his and where the life he now lives will
change forever.
Moyamensing: Behind Closed
Poe left an account not only of his incarceration
in Moyamensing, but also of the hallucinations he
suffered therein: horrors to match anything in his
fiction, but strange beauties too. Follow him
through encounters with sinister guards, hungry
rats, a murderous doppelganger and a surgeon
over-keen to wield his saw on the living, but also
a meeting with a sublimely beautiful woman
echoing more than one of the women Poe loved
and lost.
Starring John Kielty as Edgar Allan Poe.
Cast:
Lanark ….......Sandy Grierson
Rima …..........Melody Grove
Oracle….........Siobhan Redmond
Gloopy…........James Anthony Pearson
Sludden…......Robbie Jack
Gay…............Claire Knight
Ozenfant .......Finlay Welsh
MacKenzie.....Angela Darcy
Arthur….........Liam Brennan
Nastler….......Alasdair Gray
Producer/director: Kirsty Williams
Doors
by Clara Glynn
BBC RADIO 4 | AFTERNOON DRAMA
MONDAY 1; TUESDAY 2; &
WEDNESDAY 3 DECEMBER 14:15
Behind Closed Doors follows London barrister
Rebecca Nyman as she takes on three very
different legal cases:
CATASTROPHIC INJURY – Jane Gibson is
fighting for compensation from an NHS Hospital,
claiming that a midwife’s negligence caused her
baby’s Cerebral Palsy. The compensation award
is crucial for her to offset the additional costs
she will have to ensure the best care for her son.
A BAD NIGHT OUT– Following a late night
altercation Rafid was arrested for assaulting a
police officer and held in custody overnight. But
the events of that night are disputed and now
he’s making a claim against the police for false
imprisonment.
EXCLUDED – Thirteen year old Cassius has
been excluded from his school. He’s been
accused of bringing a knife onto the premises
and persistently breaking rules. Set at a ‘School
Exclusion Hearing’ the school governors have to
decide whether the exclusion should be
permanent. Rebecca is representing Cassius
and his mother.
Producer/director: David Ian Neville
Producer/director: David Ian Neville
The Giffnock
Girls
McLevy
The Meet-Cute
by Marcella Evaristi
BBC RADIO 4 | AFTERNOON DRAMA
TO BE BROADCAST IN 2015
BBC RADIO 4 | AFTERNOON DRAMA
WEDNESDAY 31 DECEMBER 14:15
BBC RADIO 4 | AFTERNOON DRAMA
TUESDAY 16 DECEMBER 14:15
The popular Victorian detective drama set in Leith
A Kaufman-esque rom-com.
she’s about to lose the only thing she has left – her
A sharp and funny play about sexual identity and mid-life
Ep 1: A Price To Pay
house.
dilemmas in Giffnock, one of Glasgow’s more affluent
Cast:
suburbs. A transgender man reunites with two female
Rosie…...Angela D’Arcy
friends from childhood. “My father called me and my two
Kath ….. Anita Vittesse
best friends, "The Giffnock girls". It was a sneer of
Jav ….....Umar Ahmed
course, me not being the kind of boy he wanted. But I
Robert ...Jordan Young
was a Giffnock girl. Always. Like the chestnut inside its
The celebrated exotic dancer, Celine Dubois, arrives in
Sheriff …Robin Laing
casing. He was right. I never believed I was a boy”.
Edinburgh to put on a special exhibition performance at
Marcella Evaristi has previously written the family sitcom,
the Just Land. Jean Brash borrows £1000 from a
The Gobetweenies for Radio 4. Her stage plays have
vicious money-lender to fund the show - but McLevy
been produced in theatres throughout the UK.
worries that she’s heading for trouble.
Going Spare
By Danny McCahon
BBC RADIO SCOTLAND | DRAMA
TUESDAY 30 SEPTEMBER 13:32
Touching contemporary drama about Rosie, a young
mum who has lost nearly everything she held dear. Now
Producer/director: Kirsty Williams
Planning
Permission
by Sarah Wooley
BBC RADIO 4 | AFTERNOON DRAMA
THURSDAY 13 NOVEMBER 14:15
A comedy about neighbours, architecture, tradition
versus modernism - and James Bond. In 1939 the
Brutalist architect Erno Goldfinger bought a row of
by David Ashton
by Ben Lewis
returns for its penultimate series.
Aspiring screenwriter meets girl-next-door. He needs her
Spring is in the air but romance is thin on the ground.
McLevy’s relationship with Jean Brash is failing to
blossom. Meanwhile, a leading local politician is found
dead in his home. His placid, middle-aged wife admits
all: falling in love.
Producer: Lu Kemp
Ep 2: The Seventh Veil
Jean is accused of shoplifting and a girl flees from
London to Leith to escape a dangerous religious cult.
McLevy decides to protect the girl but worries that she
Dogfood Diary
rom-com. She needs him to resist the biggest cliche of
to the murder. But McLevy doesn’t think it’s that simple.
Ep 3: The Night Walker
Producer/director: Bruce Young
to help him to learn the rules of writing the perfect
might not be as innocent as she seems. Jean,
The Dead of
Fenwick Moor
by Marty Ross
BBC RADIO SCOTLAND | DRAMA
MONDAY 17 NOVEMBER 13:32
meanwhile, is still protesting her innocence when an old
friend turns up unexpectedly.
A contemporary psychological thriller centred around the
question: if a word or two in the right ear could win a
by Laura Bridgeman
& Charles Lambert
Ep 4: The Devil to Play
justice otherwise denied you, but at the cost of violence
As McLevy continues to hide the missing young girl her
and loss to others – what would you do? And how
BBC RADIO 4 | AFTERNOON DRAMA
FRIDAY 19 DECEMBER 14:15
friends, McLevy’s superiors and even the loyal
would you live with the consequences?
Mulholland begin to suspect he’s not telling the truth. In
Jane has left her origins in the rural south-west of
order to force McLevy’s hand someone decides to
Scotland for a life in liberal, cosmopolitan academe. But
poison Jean Brash.
Producer/director: Bruce Young
the murder of a loved brother forces her return to the
Victorian terraced houses in Hampstead. His plan was
to knock them down and build a modernist dream home
A drama about the surprising resourcefulness of a
for him and his family to live in. The only problem was
twelve-year-old boy.
certain who the killer is, but knows that he may escape
the neighbours.
Mum makes a pact with her son, Dean. She needs some
justice. When an ex-boyfriend offers to take the law into
Producer: Gaynor Macfarlane
time to herself – they both know that she is not coping.
his own hands, and deliver justice local style, Jane is
So Dean is left home alone having agreed to look after
faced with a moral dilemma.
deeply insular village she grew up in. She is all but
himself until she returns. With his dog, Rhianna, and the
Producer/director: David Ian Neville
support of his friends, Dean manages well. But when the
school discovers his situation, everything changes. The
only person who can sort it out is Mum. And she
promised to be back for Christmas.
Producer: Gaynor Macfarlane
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