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Marilyn Elsie Imrie (born November 1947) is a Scottish radio drama director and producer.

Marilyn Imrie has worked in drama and broadcasting in Scotland and England for over thirty years as a producer and director, for BBC, ITV and the independent companies Absolutely, Bona Broadcasting, CBL, CIM, Kindle and Sweet Talk. She was a drama producer in radio and television in BBC Scotland for twelve years before moving to London to devise and launch the BBC Radio 4 soap Citizens in 1987, then drama commissioning editor for BBC Radio 4 until 1999.

She has been a script executive for BBC Scotland Television drama, a drama development executive for three major Independent Companies and a producer and director in radio drama and in the theatre. She has been awarded Sony, TRIC and Talkies awards for her radio production work, the Samuel Beckett award for television drama for Paris (BBC Scotland for BBC 2) and an RTS Award for her work on the animation series Big & Small, starring Lenny Henry and Imelda Staunton. BBC radio work includes sixteen Rumpole plays, thirteen of The Stanley Baxter Playhouse, six Two Pipe Problems, four series of Baggage, and the Classic Serials: My Last Duchess, The Book of Love, Great Expectations, Lady Chatterley's Lover, The Card, Clarissa, The Lost World and The Heat of the Day. Theatre work includes: Overdue South by Jules Horne for the Traverse Theatre/BBC Scotland, Lie Down Comic by John Mortimer, The Bones Boys by Colin MacDonald for Oran Mor, Elsie and Mairi Go To War by Diane Atkinson, Blow Me Beautiful by Gabriel Quigley and Vicki Liddelle, Daphnis and Chloe adapted by Hattie Naylor for Oran Mor, Mortimer’s Miscellany for the Henley Festival, and Prunella Scales and Edward Fox in their theatre entertainment English Eccentrics. She divides her working and home life between Edinburgh and London. She is joint-chair of the board of Stellar Quines Theatre Company and a trustee of the new writing theatre company Paines Plough.[1][2][3][4][5]

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Personal life

Marilyn Imrie has married twice, the first ending in divorce, the second in 1985 to the novelist and film-maker James Runcie, the son of Robert Runcie, the former Archbishop of Canterbury.[6][7] Imrie has two daughters, one from each marriage: Rosie Kellagher, born in 1978, is a freelance theatre director who won an Arches Award for Directors in 2007,[8] and directed Small Blue Thing,[9] Mother Father Son[10] and Macmillan's Marvellous Motion Machine for radio; and Charlotte Runcie, born in 1989, is a writer and poet who graduated with a first in English from Queens' College, Cambridge University in 2011.[11] The family lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Radio plays

Radio Plays Directed or Produced by Marilyn Imrie
Date first broadcast Play Author Cast Synopsis
Awards		 Station
Series
20 October 1989
(Recorded on 28 September 1989)		 Pratt's Fall Stewart Parker Michael Williams, John Moffatt, Kerry Shale, James Greene, John Bull, David King, Isla Blair, Dermot Crowley, Diana Payan, Maurice Roëves, Susan Wooldridge, Robert Mcintosh and Karl James If you were an attractive, strong-minded female academic, and a Glaswegian ex-monk sporting a small gold earring offered you a map proving that the Irish discovered America in the 9th Century, would you fall for it? BBC Radio 3
13 March 1990 Fair Kirsten Kaj Nissen translated by Julian Garner Gerda Stevenson and Jane Gingell Young Kirsten, the King's sister, heavy with child, is destined to dance through the night with 12 men. None of them can weary her, but the 13th, the King, ends the dance forever.

The original Danish version of this play won the Prix Futura Berlin 1989.		 BBC Radio 3
4 May 1990 – 8 June 1990
(Recorded on 19 March 1990 – 2 April 1990)		 Far from the Madding Crowd[12] Thomas Hardy dramatised by Nick McCarty Janet Maw, Christopher Scott, Richard Tate, William Eedle, Hetty Baynes, James Greene, Danny Schiller, Michael Kilgarriff, Stephen Garlick, Paul Downing, Roger Hammond, Penelope Lee, David Burke, Tim McInnerny, Emily Morgan and Garard Green Thomas Hardy's Wessex tragedy sees the emancipated Bathsheba Everdene inherit her father's farm, and change the lives of 3 men. BBC Radio 4
9 May 1990
(Recorded on 17 January 1990)		 Bright as a Light, Simple as a Ring Catherine Czerkawska Pauline Letts, Richard Tate, Joe Dunlop, Emma Bunton, Jenny Howe, Tara Dominick, Tom Wilkinson, Barbara Atkinson, Eva Haddon, Kelda Holmes, Nicholas Gatt and Sebastian Brennan Joanna replies to Raoul, imprisoned in Chile. He never replies – but what will happen when he is released? BBC Radio 4
11 June 1990 Blood and Ice Liz Lochhead Jack Klaff, Tilly Vosburgh, Peter Kelly, Stella Gonet, Gerda Stevenson and Stephen Boxer In 1816 Mary Wollstonecraft eloped with her lover Percy Shelley to the shores of Lake Geneva into a villa close to Lord Byron, where she created Frankenstein. BBC Radio 4 The Monday Play
9 July 1990
(Recorded on 1 May 1990)		 Cloud Cuckoo Land Catherine Czerkawska Brian Miller, Ronald Herdman, Stephen Tompkinson, David Bannerman, Ben Onwukwe, Burt Kwouk, Vincent Brimble, Jenny Howe, Paul Downing, Sue Broomfield, Megumi Shimanuki, Noriko Aida and Mun Wong Japanese girl Mitsuko falls in love with British boy Leon. In colour, race and custom, they are worlds apart. BBC Radio 4 The Monday Play
13 August 1991
(Recorded on 15 May 1991)		 Purgatory Marcy Kahan Stuart Milligan, Auriol Smith, Miriam Karlin and Bill Paterson Three very different people meet in purgatory and discover that the hereafter isn't quite what they imagined. BBC Radio 3
26 November 1992 – 31 December 1992 Little Women[13] Louisa M Alcott dramatised by Marcy Kahan Buffy Davies, Jemma Redgrave, Anne-Marie Zola, Gayle Hunnicutt and Kara Zediker Louisa M Alcott's endearing novel of four sisters growing up in 19th century New England. The girls are each given some money for Christmas and are anxious to spend it. BBC Radio 4
11 February 1993 – 18 March 1993 Good Wives[14][15] Louisa M Alcott dramatised by Marcy Kahan Buffy Davies, Jemma Redgrave, Gayle Hunnicutt, Anne-Marie Zola, Martin Jarvis and Marcus d'Amico Louisa May Alcott's classic sequel to Little Women. BBC Radio 4
29 December 1997 A Christmas Card Paul Theroux dramatised by Nick Warburton Michael Maloney, Christopher Wright and Rachel Atkins A snowbound family is given a Christmas card by a mysterious old man. The card is both a map and a talisman which illuminates the meaning of Christmas for the children and their parents. BBC Radio 4
21 February 1998 Beatrix Beatrix Potter adapted by Patrick Garland and Judy Taylor
Music composed by Carl Davis		 Patricia Routledge
Music performed by Osian Ellis and Philippa Davies		 The real-life story of the much-loved children's writer Beatrix Potter. BBC Radio 4
27 April 1998 – 1 May 1998 Postcards: Sunblock Ginnie Hole Teresa Gallagher, Colleen Prendergast and Russell Boulter Chalk-and-cheese sisters Kirstie and Zo spend a week at the Porthant Bay Hotel, tracing their family roots and reconciling their considerable differences. BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Drama[16]
6 July 1998 – 10 July 1998 What's Inside a Girl? Mike Walker based on the original story by Michele Hanson Paola Dionisotti, Edna Doré and Luisa Bradshaw-White Gillian and her friends tackle middle age head-on – with varying degrees of damage – as they wrestle with VPL and HRT. BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Drama
26 January 1999 – 2 March 1999 Coming Alive Jim Eldridge Karl Howman, Phyllis Logan, Ben Crowe, Tilly Gaunt and Elizabeth Conboy An ex-con gets a chance to prove himself and find his feet again by reviving a run-down community centre with assistance from a social worker who has a warm heart and an unhappy past. BBC Radio 4
16 May 1999 The Perfect Days Liz Lochhead Siobhan Redmond, Anne Kidd, Ann Scott-Jones, Jon Kazek, Vincent Friell and Enzo Cilenti A sharp and poignant comedy about how romantic love, mother love and friendship, affect one woman as she goes about trying to get what she really wants. BBC Radio 4
12 June 1999 The Summer of a Dormouse John Mortimer Paul Scofield, Alex Jennings, Imelda Staunton and Gemma Jones An elderly man stands in the darkening garden of a vicarage by the sea and looks back on a life which seems to have passed as swiftly as Lord Byron's dormouse summer. BBC Radio 4 Saturday Play[17]
25 October 1999 – 3 December 1999 Nicholas Nickleby[Note 1][18] Charles Dickens dramatised by Mike Walker and Georgia Pritchett Oliver Milburn, Alex Jennings, Nicola Radcliffe, Ken Campbell, Anna Massey, Richard Johnson, Tom Baker and David Bamber The story is of Nicholas's triumph against adversity: he defeats his wicked Uncle Ralph and the loathsome Squeers in order to carve out a life for himself, his family and the pitiful boy, Smike. Eventually he wins the hand of a beautiful girl, Madeline Bray. BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Drama
18 December 1999 The Children of Green Knowe Lucy M Boston dramatised by Brian Sibley Patricia Routledge and Dominic Childs The story of Tolly, who has been sent to spend his Christmas holidays with his great grandmother in an old fenland manor house which is full of secrets, friendly ghosts and children from another time. As Christmas approaches Tolly draws nearer to their world, and magically, is able to become part of it. BBC Radio 4 Saturday Play
19 January 2000 Stay![19] Georgia Pritchett Sophie Thompson, Duncan Preston and Sheridan Smith Lonely Lizzie runs a dog kennels. Her teenage daughter is aiming for sainthood. Tim the kennels handyman strives daily to avoid the small calamities that seem to seek him out. But romance is in the air when the new doctor arrives... BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play[20]
9 April 2000 – 23 April 2000 Cousin Bette, The Poor Relation Honoré de Balzac dramatised by James Friel Alison Steadman and Leslie Phillips Paris, 1838.

The faithless Baron Hulot is in financial difficulties. His daughter needs a dowry and a husband, and his saintly wife has nothing more he can pawn. Cousin Bette proposes a solution to the family's dilemma and a bizarre revenge for her own betrayal.

 BBC Radio 4
26 July 2000 – 30 August 2000 Coming Alive (series 2) Jim Eldridge Karl Howman, Phyllis Logan, Ben Crowe and David Holt Light-hearted story of Terry "Silver Tongue" King, the ex-con released into the community. Terry King continues his battle to breathe new life into the Grove Hill Farm community centre. But will he face a return to jail after an assault charge? And will his tentative romance with social worker Sandra blossom? BBC Radio 4
11 February 2001 Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off Liz Lochhead Myra McFadyen, Gerda Stevenson, Siobhan Redmond, Bill Paterson, John Kazek, Daniel Brocklebank, Forbes Masson and Jon Glover A darkly comic portrayal of the life and times of Mary, Queen of Scots. Premiered during the 1987 Edinburgh Festival, the play looks at Mary's legacy through the eyes of Corbie, a carrion crow who is her unseen attendant through life and death. BBC Radio 4
24 June 2001 My Last Duchess Robert Browning dramatised by Martyn Wade Roger Allam, Emily Mortimer, Tim McInnerny and Robert Hands Inspired by a fresco portrait of the Italian Duke of Este's first wife, who died young in suspicious circumstances, Browning wrote his poetic masterpiece My Last Duchess. This dramatisation solves the mystery posed by the poem. BBC Radio 4 Classic Serial[21]
21 September 2001 The Alien Sister[Note 2] Judy Upton Joel Samuels, Laura Sadler, Duncan Preston, Tessa Peake-Jones, Frankie Carson, Jessie Harris and Jon Glover Darkly comic drama about what happens to the family of a teenage computer whiz when his elder sister suddenly returns home four years after she went missing. With the help of a chemistry set and some interrogation techniques cribbed off the internet, Connor sets out to prove she's an alien. BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
19 October 2001 – 16 November 2001 Coming Alive (series 3) Jim Eldridge Karl Howman, Phyllis Logan, Ben Crowe, Sandra Voe, Sean Baker, Jennifer Wheelan, David Holt, Clare Corbett and Ewan Bailey Ex-con Terry "Silver Tongue" King has reached a crossroads. Will he get to stay with Sandra or will he have to let go? BBC Radio 4
24 August 2003 – 31 August 2003 The Book of Love William Hazlitt's Liber Amoris dramatised by Martyn Wade Tim McInnerny, Claire Skinner, Alison Steadman, Imelda Staunton, Julian Wadham, William Houston and John Bett The artist, admirer of Napoleon, theatre and literary critic and essayist William Hazlitt was 43 when he fell passionately and obsessively in love with Sarah Walker, his landlady's daughter, a young woman half his age. He became paranoid, jealous and totally single minded in pursuit of her. BBC Radio 4 Classic Serial
24 September 2003 Rumpole and the Primrose Path[22] John Mortimer Timothy West, Prunella Scales, Michael Cochrane, Nigel Anthony, Sophie Thompson, Joanna David, Carole Boyd and David Shaw-Parker Rumpole exposes criminal practices at the nursing home where he has been sent to recuperate after a heart attack, which has left him in dire need of claret, cheroots and good company! BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
1 October 2003 Rumpole and the Scales of Justice[23] John Mortimer Timothy West, Prunella Scales, Michael Cochrane, Geoffrey Whitehead, Ewan Bailey, Ian Masters,[Issue 1] David Shaw-Parker and John Rowe When Rumpole is called upon to defend a senior member of the police force in court, his relish for the tragedy of Shakespeare's Othello, and his old acquaintances among the south London criminal fraternity prove very useful, and help him balance the scales of justice in favour of the oft maligned defence barrister. BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
8 October 2003 Rumpole and the Vanishing Juror[24] John Mortimer Timothy West, Prunella Scales, Bruce Alexander, Sophie Thompson, Marlene Sidaway, David Holt, Sean Baker, Ewan Bailey, Ian Masters,[Issue 1] David Shaw-Parker and Hetty Baynes Rumpole's admiration for the integrity of the Old Bailey jury is legendary, but in this story he encounters a juror in a murder trial who has a very personal and very dramatic agenda. BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
15 October 2003 Rumpole Redeemed[25] John Mortimer Timothy West and Prunella Scales Rumpole solves the conundrum of an ex-con who seems to have been redeemed, and one who evidently hasn't, and also seeks redemption for his own sins of omission at the Lysander health club! In passing, he also bestows redemption on several of his associates who, in various preposterous ways, are in dire need of it!. BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
2 January 2004 Lie Down Comic John Mortimer Sinéad Cusack, Tom Hollander, Alison Pettit and Tilly Gaunt A stand-up comic finds himself befriending a beautiful, defiant and feisty woman author who is a fan of his, and who is dying, and raging against it. The two find themselves initially at odds, but eventually find support and affection in one another's company. BBC Radio 4 Friday Play[26]
11 September 2004 Hill of Rains Colin MacDonald Lorelei King, Bill Paterson, Stuart Milligan, Debora Weston, Stuart McQuarrie, Sean Scanlan, Tracey Wiles, Sally Kinghorn and Ed Bishop Cathy travels 3000 miles from Staten Island to Argyll, to look for the truth in an old story. She leaves her heart there, but discovers that real love always follows you home. BBC Radio 4 Saturday Play
23 December 2004 Ancient and Modern Sue Gee Juliet Stevenson, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Stephen Rashbrook, Amelia Williams, Matthew Marsh, David Shaw-Parker, Vivienne Rochester, Ajax Kentish and Harriet Cook Alison is one of London's many hidden, lonely people, working, coping, being brave. A chance encounter at a Christmas church service brings her a new understanding of what love means. BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
21 March 2005 – 25 March 2005 Only in London[Note 3] Hanan Al-Shayk dramatised by Shelley Silas Suzanna Nour, Tom Beard, Shappi Khorsandi, Nitzan Sharron, John Rowe, Nick Maloney, Helen Schlesinger, Daryl Moore, Nadim Sawalha and Nina Wadia As a flight from Dubai touches down in London, three people from different corners of the Arab world are thrown together: beautiful, lost Lamis; the lively Moroccan Amira, and her new friend Samir, who, like her, loves not wisely but too well. BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Drama
6 April 2005 Baggage: Midsummer Mayhem[27] Hilary Lyon Hilary Lyon, Phyllis Logan, Adie Allen, Robin Cameron, Holly Wagner and Stuart McQuarrie It's Edinburgh. It's Midsummer. Caroline is having a very bad time for the very first time, not helped by Fiona taking up residence in her bath and made much worse by Ruth just being Ruth. BBC Radio 4
13 April 2005 Baggage: Festival Flatmates[28] Hilary Lyon Hilary Lyon, Phyllis Logan, Adie Allen, Robin Cameron, Stuart McQuarrie and Moray Hunter It's Edinburgh. It's the Festival. Our Celtic trio do an all-nighter, but what with dumped husbands, floundering new romances and half-drowned teenage boys - an early night might have been a better plan. BBC Radio 4
20 April 2005 Baggage: Halloween Havoc[29] Hilary Lyon Hilary Lyon, Phyllis Logan, Adie Allen, Peter Capaldi and Moray Hunter At the castle's Halloween Ball, Caroline turns into Cinderella, and her ex-husband turns into a toad. Ruth and Fiona turn up to pick up the pieces. BBC Radio 4
22 April 2005 Alias George Eliot Martyn Wade Deborah Findlay, Adrian Scarborough, John Rowe, Nicholas Le Prevost, John Bett and David Collings Marian Evans took the pseudonym George Eliot when she started her now famously successful career as a novelist. But she was dismayed to discover that someone else was claiming to have written her work. This is the story of her impostor, a certain Mr Joseph Liggins. BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
27 April 2005 Baggage: Fireworks and Funerals[30] Hilary Lyon Hilary Lyon, Phyllis Logan, Adie Allen, Stuart McQuarrie, Holly Wagner and June Watson It's Edinburgh. It's Bonfire Night. Caroline is spoilt for choice; attending her boyfriend's mother's funeral or attending to Fiona's fugitive mum? Either way, its fireworks all round. BBC Radio 4
4 May 2005 Baggage: Christmas Crises[31] Hilary Lyon Hilary Lyon, Phyllis Logan, Adie Allen, Stuart McQuarrie, Holly Wagner, Peter Capaldi, Moray Hunter and Gordon Kennedy It's Edinburgh. It's Christmas. It's a relaxed partner-free zone. Throw in a goose, a ghost and a garrulous whippet and you're all set. Unless of course, Fiona is in charge. BBC Radio 4
11 May 2005 Baggage: New Year, New Life[32] Hilary Lyon Hilary Lyon, Phyllis Logan, Adie Allen, Peter Capaldi and Stuart McQuarrie It's Edinburgh. It's Hogmanay. It's time for resolutions. Caroline is determinedly moving on, Fiona may be moving back and Ruth is definitely staying exactly where she is. BBC Radio 4
21 November 2005 – 25 November 2005 Constance Julie Fraser Joanna David, Tina Gray, Flora Dacherty, David Shaw-Parker, Martin Hyder, Maria Aitken, Colleen Prendergast, Marcella Riordan, John Rowe, Geoffrey McGivern, Susan Wooldridge, Jenny Howe, Debora Weston, Eric Loren, Tracy Wiles and Flora Docherty Renowned 20th century florist Constance Spry was inspired by childhood walks in a bluebell wood in Ireland. Later, as a young bride, she created her first rose garden there, and escaped her loveless marriage by fleeing to England and a new life with her young son. BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Drama
12 June 2006 The Stanley Baxter Playhouse: Cold Call[33][34] David Holt Stanley Baxter, Pam Ferris, Sophie Thompson and Stephen Critchlow Gordon Mackenzie is a wealthy pensioner with a penchant for drama and a sudden yen for a conservatory. Will his tyrannical cleaning lady agree to wield her duster over a million new window panes or will he find a new lady in his life? BBC Radio 4
19 June 2006 The Stanley Baxter Playhouse: First Impressions[35][36] Rona Munro Stanley Baxter, Colette O'Neil, Hilary Maclean, Stuart McQuarrie, Hilary Lyon and Gordon Kennedy Charlie and Sylvia are lifelong friends. She depends on him in a thousand little ways and adores his talent for doing impressions. Charlie has loved her all his life, but he discovers that there are still some things he doesn't know about her. BBC Radio 4
26 June 2006 The Stanley Baxter Playhouse: Mortal Memories[37][38] Liz Lochhead Stanley Baxter Jack and Nettie prepare to celebrate Burns night, and two very different people unite over an immortal memory. BBC Radio 4
3 July 2006 The Stanley Baxter Playhouse: Wheeling Them In[39][40] Rona Munro Stanley Baxter, June Watson, Sharon Maharaj, Meg Kubota, Robin Cameron, Mark Bonnar and James McPherson Archie has been a hospital porter for 38 years. Suddenly everything he values seems to be in the balance, but in the end he reaps the rewards of years of kindness. BBC Radio 4
13 July 2006 Kelso – Overdue South Jules Horne
Music by Gavin Marwick		 Eileen McCallum, Louise Ludgate and Billy Riddoch BBC Radio Scotland Drama[41]
19 July 2006 Rumpole and the Teenage Werewolf[42] John Mortimer Timothy West, Prunella Scales, Felicity Montague, Nicholas Le Prevost, Philip Jackson, Matt Smith, Karl Johnson, Sean Baker and Ellie Beaven Rumpole leaves London to defend a case in the Home Counties, where he meets up with Ben, a teenager accused of sending emails deemed to be sexually harassing, and of an actual physical attack on a girl. BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
26 July 2006 Rumpole and the Right to Privacy[43] John Mortimer Timothy West, Prunella Scales, David Shaw-Parker, Nigel Anthony, Elaine Claxton, Anton Rodgers, Stephen Critchlow, Kim Durham and Joanna David Rumpole leaves the Old Bailey to defend an editor of a local newspaper who is accused of breaching a successful businessman's right to privacy. BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
28 July 2006 Baggage: Midsummer Lovesick and Sickening[44] Hilary Lyon Hilary Lyon, Phyllis Logan, Adie Allen and Stuart McQuarrie It's Edinburgh. It's February and it's freezing outside. Inside, the temperature is rising. Caroline and Simeon are loved-up; Fiona and Ruth are fed-up; three's company but four is definitely a crowd. BBC Radio 4
30 July 2006 – 13 August 2006 Great Expectations Charles Dickens adapted by Martyn Wade Oliver Milburn, Angus Imrie, Jim Carter, Pam Ferris, Robin Weaver, Ken Campbell, Janet Suzman, Ellie Beaven, Milo Clare, Roger Allam, Christopher Benjamin, Ben Crowe, Harry Myers, David Thorpe, Sam Beazley, Anna Maxwell Martin, Adrian Scarborough, Stephen Critchlow and Maggie McCarthy Young Pip is an orphan living with his shrewish sister and her kindly blacksmith husband. One Christmas Eve, he is surprised by a convict and forced to steal for him. This single good deed of Pip's leads him to the pursuit of expectations of wealth, a better position in life, and happiness; but he has many hard lessons to learn before he achieves that. BBC Radio 4 Classic Serial
4 August 2006 Baggage: Procreation and Procrastination[45] Hilary Lyon Hilary Lyon, Phyllis Logan, Adie Allen, Stuart McQuarrie, Hilary MacLean and Natasha Lawrence It's Edinburgh. It's almost spring and there are armies of babies everywhere. Caroline grapples with incipient broodiness, her sister's colicky newborn and a major revelation from Simeon. BBC Radio 4
11 August 2006 Baggage: And So to Bath[46][47] Hilary Lyon Hilary Lyon, Phyllis Logan, Adie Allen, Stuart McQuarrie, Carolyn Bonnyman, Nicola Grier and Jack Docherty It's Edinburgh, it's springtime and life is supposedly moving on. But with relocation in the air and a school reunion to be negotiated with Fiona and Ruth, Caroline doesn't know whether she is coming or going. BBC Radio 4
18 August 2006 Baggage: The Loneliness of the Long Distance Lover[48] Hilary Lyon Hilary Lyon, Phyllis Logan, Adie Allen, Stuart McQuarrie, Robin Cameron, Moray Hunter, June Watson and Peter Capaldi Caroline's ex-husband finds himself a new husband, Fiona's mother finds herself lost and Ruth gets lost trying to find herself. BBC Radio 4
25 August 2006 Baggage: Highland Fling[49] Hilary Lyon Hilary Lyon, Phyllis Logan, Adie Allen, Stuart McQuarrie and Robin Cameron Caroline's birthday in the wilds of the Highlands finds a newly sober Ruth reinventing herself, Fiona having a Highland fling and Caroline finding that her fling is well and truly flung. BBC Radio 4
1 September 2006 Baggage: Perpetual Emotion[50][51] Hilary Lyon Hilary Lyon, Phyllis Logan, Adie Allen, Stuart McQuarrie, Robin Cameron, June Watson, Peter Capaldi and Roger May At the Edinburgh Festival, the trio deal with a pair of pleading ex-lovers, a disconcertingly charming stranger and a life-and-death bedside vigil. Who needs drama on the Fringe? BBC Radio 4
23 September 2006 – 30 September 2006 Lady Chatterley's Lover D H Lawrence dramatised by Michelene Wandor Lia Williams, Roger Allam, Robert Glenister, Lynn Farleigh, Jasmine Hyde, David Rintoul and Julian Rhind-Tutt In Lawrence's classic exploration of the nature of sexual love, young beautiful Constance is married to Lord Clifford, wounded in the First World War and now wheelchair-bound. Her life at Wragby Hall is bleak and lonely, until an encounter with Oliver Mellors changes everything. BBC Radio 4 Classic Serial
12 August 2007 – 19 August 2007 The Card[52] Arnold Bennett dramatised by Jennifer Howarth Ron Cook, William Ash, Philip Jackson, David Shaw-Parker, Jasmine Hyde, Matthew Morgan, Daniel Weyman, Linda Broughton, Elizabeth Spriggs, Robin Weaver and Tilly Gaunt Charting the rise and rise of Denry Machin in 19th century Bursley. BBC Radio 4 Classic Serial
15 August 2007 – 22 August 2007 Rumpole and the Reign of Terror[53] John Mortimer Timothy West, Prunella Scales, Christopher Benjamin, Lily Bevan, Michael Cochrane, Bruce Alexander, Shiv Grewal, Geoffrey Whitehead, Ben Crowe, Christopher Scott, Joanna David, Kim Durham and Nigel Anthony If one man can be counted on to fight injustice and insist on a fair and decent trial for everyone, whatever their circumstances, Horace Rumpole is he. So when beautiful Tiffany Khan learns that her husband has been arrested on suspicion of terrorism, she calls on him right away. BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
5 December 2007 Baggage: The Homecoming[54] Hilary Lyon Hilary Lyon, Phyllis Logan, Adie Allen, Robin Cameron and Roger May Ruth may be in love, Fiona may be in labour and Caroline may wish she hadn't bothered coming home at all. BBC Radio 4
12 December 2007 Baggage: Family Matters [55] Hilary Lyon Hilary Lyon, Phyllis Logan, Adie Allen, Stuart McQuarrie, John Docherty and Moray Hunter Families and flats are being reconstructed all round. Caroline has a thoroughly modern dinner with her ex-husband and his new husband. She has to tackle an astonishing request. BBC Radio 4
19 December 2007 Baggage: The Regeneration Game [56] Hilary Lyon Hilary Lyon, Phyllis Logan, Adie Allen, Robin Cameron, June Watson, Moray Hunter and Nicola Grier Caroline's adoption journey stalls when both her social worker Miriam and Fiona's baby April insist on arriving early. BBC Radio 4
26 December 2007 Baggage: Not Quite Part of the Plan[57] Hilary Lyon Hilary Lyon, Phyllis Logan, Adie Allen, Robin Cameron and Moray Hunter In summertime, the living is far from easy. Caroline and Ruth struggle with Fiona's post-natal aggression, unaware that the worst is yet to come. BBC Radio 4
2 January 2008 Baggage: Human Doings[58] Hilary Lyon Hilary Lyon, Phyllis Logan, Adie Allen, Roger May and Nicola Grier Ruth jumps off the wagon when her boyfriend's past catches up with him. Caroline falls at the final adoption hurdle. Fiona tries to get everyone to just stand still. BBC Radio 4
7 January 2008 The Stanley Baxter Playhouse: The King's Kilt[59] Rona Munro Stanley Baxter, John Guerrasio, Alison Peebles and Gordon Kennedy A recalcitrant Highland kilt maker is faced with the task of producing a garment for George IV to wear on his first visit to Edinburgh in 1822. BBC Radio 4
9 January 2008 Baggage: Keep Right on to the End of the Road[60] Hilary Lyon Hilary Lyon, Phyllis Logan, Adie Allen, Stuart McQuarrie, Robin Cameron and June Watson Caroline, Fiona and Ruth climb their biggest mountain yet, terrified that they may all fall over the edge. BBC Radio 4
14 January 2008 The Stanley Baxter Playhouse: Pasta Alfreddo at Cafe Alessandro[61] Rona Munro Stanley Baxter, Luisa Pretolani, Tracy Wiles, John Kazek, John Guerrasio and Gordon Kennedy An Italian cafe owner in Glasgow employs a little guile and cunning to defend the honour and the environment of his beloved native land. BBC Radio 4
21 January 2008 The Stanley Baxter Playhouse: Flying Down to Greenock[62] Michael Chaplin Stanley Baxter and Patricia Kerrigan A centenarian Glaswegian, making his first ever flight, remembers life during the blitz over Clydeside. BBC Radio 4
30 January 2008 Life: An Audio Tour[Note 4][63] Jules Horne Sandy McDade, Edith MacArthur, Lewis Howden and Alex Elliott Jenny is trying to win Joe back after her disastrous affair. Her unusual strategy is to offer him an audio tour of the small Scottish town of Kelso. BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
28 May 2008 – 29 May 2008 The Antisocial Behaviour of Horace Rumpole[64] John Mortimer Timothy West, Prunella Scales, Michael Cochrane, Nicholas le Prevost, Roger May, Jillie Mears, David Holt, Matthew Morgan, David Shaw-Parker and Geoffrey Whitehead ASBOs may be the pride and joy of new Labour, but they don't cut much ice with Horace Rumpole; he takes the old fashioned view that if anyone is going to be threatened with a restriction of their liberty then some form of meaningful legal procedure ought to be put in place. BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
11 August 2008 Two Pipe Problems: A Streetcar Named Revenge[65] Michael Chaplin Stanley Baxter, Richard Briers, Edna Doré, Linda Broughton, Jillie Meers, David Shaw-Parker, Tracy Wiles, Nickolas Grace, Susan Wooldridge and Rad Lazar Inmates of the Old Beeches, a retirement home for elderly thespians, William and Sandy still nurse a certain affectionate animosity towards one another since they starred as Holmes and Watson in a 1960s television series. BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
12 August 2008 Two Pipe Problems: The Trusty Valet and the Crusty Butler[66] Michael Chaplin Stanley Baxter, Richard Briers, David Shaw-Parker, Tracy Wiles, Ellie Beaven, Lloyd Hutchinson and Geoffrey Whitehead William and Sandy venture outside the Old Beeches to a movie set, accompanied by the intrepid care assistant Karen, as they take on the world of celluloid. BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
31 August 2008 Your Only Man[67] Annie Caulfield Ardal O'Hanlon, Dermot Crowley, Dara Ó Briain, Pauline McLynn and Lloyd Hutchinson Brian O'Nolan was an Irish writer, columnist and civil servant who wrote novels such as The Third Policeman under the pen name of Flann O'Brien and popular satirical newspaper columns as Myles na gCopaleen, while at the same time working as a civil servant in Dublin under his real name. This play imagines what might have happened had the three of them got together on the day when O'Nolan was asked to leave his civil service post. BBC Radio 3 Drama on 3[68]
27 March 2009 The Stanley Baxter Playhouse: Astonishing Archie[69] Bill Paterson Stanley Baxter, Bill Paterson and Maureen Beattie When two brothers get together to plan the funeral of an old friend, the choice of music is a bone of contention – will it be Sinatra or Presley? A generation and a whole philosophy of popular music separate the brothers, and the choice they finally make is a heartwarming musical compromise. BBC Radio 4
3 April 2009 The Stanley Baxter Playhouse: Fife Circle[70] Michael Chaplin Stanley Baxter Two elderly brothers meet at Waverley station and set out on a journey of discovery involving lost mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters, and learn just whom they really belong to. BBC Radio 4
3 April 2009 The Bones Boys[71] Colin MacDonald Mark McDonnell and Angus King Poignant and funny drama following two 8th century monks trying to save holy relics from Viking marauders. BBC Radio Scotland Drama
10 April 2009 The Stanley Baxter Playhouse: The Man in the Garden[72] Rona Munro Stanley Baxter, Penelope Wilton and Bill Paterson A lonely lady on a holiday in the remote West Highlands of Scotland finds herself falling in love with two members of the same family, born 60 years apart. BBC Radio 4
27 April 2009 Two Pipe Problems[73] Michael Chaplin Stanley Baxter, Richard Briers, Julia McKenzie, John Rowe, Joseph Mydell, Jillie Meers, Susan Wooldridge and Stephen Critchlow Our two elderly thespian residents of the Old Beeches home for retired members of the Acting profession become embroiled in making sure the course of true love DOES run smooth. BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
28 April 2009 Two Pipe Problems: Have You Come Far?[74] Michael Chaplin Stanley Baxter, Richard Briers, Tracy Wiles, David Shaw-Parker, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Geoffrey Whitehead, Stephen Critchlow and Linda Broughton Sandy appears in the honours list but a trip to Buckingham Palace to collect his award provides another mystery for the veteran sleuths to solve. BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
19 May 2009 – 26 May 2009 Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders[75] John Mortimer adapted by Richard Stoneman Timothy West, Benedict Cumberbatch, Geoffrey Whitehead, Andy de la Tour, Ewan Bailey, Emma Fielding, Jasmine Hyde, Stephen Critchlow, Matthew Morgan, Karl Johnson and David Shaw-Parker It is the 1950s, a short decade after the end of the war, and two war heroes have been shot dead. The only suspect is Simon Jerrold, the son of one of the victims, and he faces the death penalty. Defending him is deemed hopeless, so the case is handed to a novice. But the novice's superiors did not count on the tenacity and wit of the young and hungry Horace Rumpole. BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
4 July 2009 Utz[76] Bruce Chatwin dramatised by Gregory Norminton Jack Klaff, Pam Ferris, Sam Kelly, Daniel Weyman, Gregory Norminton, Michaela Stonisova and Dolya Gavanski A British academic travels to 1960s Prague to research the art collection of Rudolf II and meets the eccentric and dogged porcelain collector, Kaspar Joachim Utz. From this encounter an extraordinary story of obsession and survival emerges. For years, Utz has protected his vast collection of Meissen figurines from Nazis, Stalinist ideologues and the demands of communist museum curators. BBC Radio 4 Saturday Play
8 July 2009 Baggage: Ashes to Auld Reekie[77] Hilary Lyon Hilary Lyon, Phyllis Logan, Adie Allen, Robin Cameron, June Watson and Moray Hunter It is a year since Caroline's best friend, Fiona, died, but an unexpected visitor, a skinny dip in a Highland loch and an illicit kiss mean that scattering her ashes doesn't quite go according to plan. BBC Radio 4
15 July 2009 Baggage: Carping Diem[78] Hilary Lyon Hilary Lyon, Phyllis Logan, Adie Allen, Robin Cameron, David Rintoul and Nicola Grier It's Festival time and Caroline is in love: great timing for her best friend Ruth to habitually invade her privacy, her toddler daughter April to be teething and her larger-than-life dad Hector to turn up unannounced. BBC Radio 4
22 July 2009 Baggage: The Father, the Mother, the Dead Friend and Her Lover[79] Hilary Lyon Hilary Lyon, Phyllis Logan, Adie Allen, Robin Cameron, David Rintoul and June Watson It's autumn, but life in the flat is still hotting up. An unplanned dinner party sets the scene for some serious seduction tactics, Hector's secret is finally revealed and there is nothing cool about Caroline's temper. BBC Radio 4
29 July 2009 Baggage: Tales of the Unexpected[80] Hilary Lyon Hilary Lyon, Phyllis Logan, Adie Allen, Robin Cameron, David Rintoul, Moray Hunter and Nicola Grier It's December in Edinburgh and the Christmas spirit is in short supply. The spirit of whisky, however, features heavily, as Ruth decides whether or not to risk falling off the wagon and Caroline and Roddy risk seriously falling out. BBC Radio 4
5 August 2009 Baggage: For a' that and a' that[81] Hilary Lyon Hilary Lyon, Phyllis Logan, Adie Allen, Robin Cameron, David Rintoul and Moray Hunter It's Burns' night and passion and politics are to the fore. Tensions abound at the prospect of baby April spending the weekend with her birth father and Caroline frets over why her own father isn't spending the night at home. BBC Radio 4
12 August 2009 Baggage: You're a Long Time Dead[82] Hilary Lyon Hilary Lyon, David Rintoul, Adie Allen, Moray Hunter, Robin Cameron and June Watson It's summer and all change all-round. Caroline struggles to come to terms with Ruth now being her dad's lover, and agonises over Roddy's shock proposal – the end of an era beckons. BBC Radio 4
14 March 2010 – 4 April 2010 Clarissa: The History of a Young Lady[83] Samuel Richardson dramatised by Hattie Naylor Zoe Waites, Richard Armitage, Oliver Milburn, Stephen Critchlow, Sophie Thompson, Alison Steadman, John Rowe, Deborah Findlay, Cathy Sara, Miriam Margolyes, Lisa Hammond, Adrian Scarborough, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Ellie Beaven and Linda Broughton The beautiful young heiress Clarissa Harlowe is dangerously attracted by the wiles of the notorious libertine Robert Lovelace. Threatened by an imminent marriage arranged with the odious suitor her family have found for her, Lovelace persuades Clarissa to flee with him. BBC Radio 4 Classic Serial
22 June 2010 Two Pipe Problem 2010: Right Old Charlie[84] Michael Chaplin Richard Briers, Stanley Baxter, Barry Cryer, Teresa Gallagher, Edna Doré, Jillie Meers, David Shaw-Parker and Joe Caffrey Ageing, once-famous stand-up comic Charlie Fisher regales the inmates of The Old Beeches retirement home for members of the theatrical profession with a few too many very old gags, but when his joke book and a large sum of money go missing, resident sleuths Sandy and William have a few tough questions to ask of the inmates, the new odd job man, and Charlie himself. BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
23 June 2010 Two Pipe Problem 2010: The Memory Man Forgets[85] Michael Chaplin Richard Briers, Stanley Baxter, David Holt, Teresa Gallagher, Geoffrey Whitehead, Julia Ford and Anne Reid Billy Small is a rare talent; one of the few surviving "Memory Men" Music Hall variety acts who had total recall of a huge range of entertaining facts. Billy is 85, and after a trip home to his native Yorkshire, he returns to The Old Beeches totally devoid of any memory of who he is or of any of the amazing facts he used to be so proud to display. BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
9 August 2010 Rumpole and the Family Pride[86] John Mortimer dramatised by Richard Stoneman Timothy West, Benedict Cumberbatch, Cathy Sara, Elaine Claxton, Julian Wadham, Sophie Thompson, Joshua McGuire, Stephen Critchlow, Susan Wooldridge, Geoffrey Whitehead and Adrian Scarborough We rejoin Rumpole and Hilda in the late 1950s, when they have been married for a year or two. Rumpole mingles with a branch of Yorkshire aristocracy remotely connected to Hilda's family when he represents a Lord in the Coroner's Court.

Hilda's first cousin (once removed), Rosemary, lives with her husband, Richard, the 17th Baron Sackbut, in Sackbut Castle and Hilda and Rumpole are invited to Yorkshire when a body is found in the grounds of the castle.

 BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
10 August 2010 Rumpole and the Eternal Triangle[87] John Mortimer dramatised by Richard Stoneman Timothy West, Benedict Cumberbatch, Cathy Sara, Faye Castelow, Adrian Scarborough, Matthew Morgan, Nigel Anthony, Michael Cochrane, Geoffrey Whitehead and Stephen Critchlow When Rumpole and Hilda attend a concert performed by The Casterini Trio, Rumpole is surprised to be approached by Elizabeth Casterini – the trio's beautiful violinist. Rumpole falls for her charms. But then, the Trio's cellist, Tom Randall is murdered.

Elizabeth's husband Desmond was supposedly suspicious of Randall's feelings for Elizabeth. And, since he owned the gun that was found by the body, Desmond is arrested. Flattered by Elizabeth's seductive pleas, Rumpole agrees to defend Desmond at the Old Bailey. But there, Rumpole's admiration for Elizabeth rapidly begins to wane.

 BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
17 September 2010 The Stanley Baxter Playhouse: The Porter's Story[88][89] Rona Munro Stanley Baxter, Gordon Kennedy, Siobhan Redmond and Stuart McQuarrie Comedy based on Shakespeare's Macbeth. A porter tells his version of events that led to the murder of King Duncan, and reveals how his plans to help his master were foiled in a series of mishaps. BBC Radio 4
17 September 2010 The Stanley Baxter Playhouse: The German Pilot[90] Rona Munro Stanley Baxter, Sam Peter Jackson, Vicki Liddelle and John Ramage Friedrich is a German pilot whose plane is shot down over a remote rural area in the west of Scotland. He is a prisoner of war, and initially local feelings against him are vitriolic; but he, like everyone in the community in which he finds himself, is a cattle farmer, and as his English improves, he forms strong bonds with his captors, and forges an unlikely friendship which, many years later, brings him back to Scotland. BBC Radio 4
17 September 2010 The Stanley Baxter Playhouse: In the Name of the Wee Man[91] David Holt Stanley Baxter, John Sessions, John Ramage, Gabriel Quigley and David Holt Tommy Lorne, one of Scotland's greatest early twentieth century comedians – how he became a star, touring sometimes to twelve venues a week, but pushed himself too hard, and in 1935 he collapsed before a show. At his funeral three thousand people turned out to say farewell – the biggest audience he'd ever played. BBC Radio 4
29 October 2010 – 3 December 2010 The Bob Servant Emails[Note 5][92] Neil Forsyth Brian Cox, Felix Dexter, Laura Solon, Lewis Macleod and Sanjeev Kohli Bob Servant is retired and a little bit bored. When he starts getting spam emails, he decides to play the fraudsters at their own game and soon has them in the palm of his hand. BBC Radio Scotland Comedy[93]
20 March 2011 – 27 March 2011 The Lost World[94] Arthur Conan Doyle dramatised by Chris Harrald David Robb, Jasmine Hyde, Jamie Glover, Jonathan Forbes, Milton Lopes, Sam Dale, Sean Baker, Nyasha Hatendi, Brian Bowles, Jane Whittenshaw, Vinicius Salles and Milton Lopes The hot-headed Professor Challenger claims that extinct species of animals are still to be found living on an isolated Amazonian plateau. Dr Summerlee, Lord John Roxton and the intrepid reporter, Edward Malone, find themselves committed to a journey of a lifetime. BBC Radio 4 Classic Serial
13 May 2011 – 3 June 2011 Sybil Unrest[95] Charlie Dore Una McLean, Gabriel Quigley, Gavin Mitchell, Sanjeev Kohli, Stanley Baxter, Stirling Moss, Clare Waugh and Scott Hoatson Octogenarian Sybil Law's comedy radio show celebrates canny, feisty, funny older people. BBC Radio Scotland Comedy
19 May 2011 Macmillan's Marvellous Motion Machine[Note 6][96][97] Jules Horne Scott Hoatson, John Kazek, Gabriel Quigley, Gavin Mitchell, Isabella Jarrett and Leo MacNeill Young Scots country blacksmith Kirkpatrick Macmillan is a man of ideas, like the velocipede – a clanking, pedalled contraption that's the ancestor of the modern bicycle. He cycled from Penpont to Glasgow and committed the world’s first cycle crime in 1842. BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
31 October 2011 – 6 November 2011 The Heat of the Day[Note 7][98] Elizabeth Bowen adapted from the Harold Pinter screenplay by Tristram Powell and Honor Borwick Henry Goodman, Matthew Marsh, Anna Chancellor, Tom Goodman-Hill, Teresa Gallagher, Daniel Weyman, Honeysuckle Weeks, Tina Gray, Nigel Anthony, Gemma Jones and Ben Baker Stella is an intelligent widowed woman, living in London during the Second World War and working for a government agency. Although no longer in the flush of youth – she has a son in the army – she is still a sensuous, attractive woman and it soon becomes clear that she is the pawn in a macho battle between her existing lover Robert (who is possibly a spy and whose identity is in constant flux) and a creepy man called Harrison (an emotionally stunted counterspy). BBC Radio 4 Classic Serial
1 March 2012 Rumpole and the Man of God[99] John Mortimer adapted by Richard Stoneman Timothy West, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jasmine Hyde, Stephen Critchlow, Adrian Scarborough, Cathy Sara and Nigel Anthony It's 1959, and Rumpole is faced with defending a clergyman accused of shoplifting who although he clearly did not commit the crime, is curiously reluctant to be cross examined under oath, where he would have to tell the truth, but save himself from being be defrocked.

Meanwhile Rumpole's fellow barrister and friend Frobisher, a confirmed bachelor, announces his engagement to a very merry widow, whom Rumpole seems to remember he has met somewhere before...

And finally, Hilda, she who must be obeyed, drops a bomb of information which will have a profound effect on their marriage.

 BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
2 March 2012 Rumpole and the Explosive Evidence[100] John Mortimer adapted by Richard Stoneman Timothy West, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jasmine Hyde, Alison Pettitt, Michael Cochrane, John Ramm, Geoffrey Whitehead, Nigel Anthony and Adrian Scarborough It's 1960. Hilda's had a baby son, Nicholas. Rumpole, awash with flu, defends a safe-blower, and exposes the dubious dealings of a senior police officer. In so doing however, Rumpole breaches one of the codes of procedure in court, and finds himself in danger of losing his right to work in court. However, help arrives from the intervention of a gentleman of the press.

Meanwhile, at Froxbury mansions, Rumpole forms a strong bond with his infant son in the watches of the night, when he talks over the intricacies of the case with him, and discovers that Hilda really does care about his career, and their future together.

 BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play

Notes:

  1. ^ Directed by Marilyn Imrie and Jeremy Mortimer
  2. ^ Directed by Mark Brickman; Produced by Marilyn Imrie
  3. ^ Directed by Deborah Paige; Produced by Marilyn Imrie
  4. ^ Directed by Philip Howard; Produced by Marilyn Imrie
  5. ^ Directed by Marilyn Imrie; Produced by Owen Bell
  6. ^ Directed by Rosie Kellagher; Produced by Marilyn Imrie
  7. ^ Directed by Tristram Powell; Produced by Marilyn Imrie

Sources:

Stage plays

Stage Plays Directed by Marilyn Imrie
Date Title Author Cast Synopsis Theatre Company Notes
02006-01-012006 – 02012-01-01 Overdue South Jules Horne Eileen McCallum, Louise Ludgate and Billy Riddoch Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
02007-03-088 March 2007 – 02007-03-1010 March 2007 Lie Down Comic[101][102] John Mortimer Alison Peebles and Sandy Nelson A stand-up comic befriends a fan of his, who is dying. They find laughter and affection in one another's company. Oran Mor, Glasgow
02008-11-2525 November 2008 – 02008-11-2929 November 2008 The Bones Boys[103][104] Colin MacDonald Angus King and Mark McDonnell Two bickering 8th century Northumbrian monks flee north towards Scotland from a monastery under siege with a casket containing the precious bones of St Andrew Oran Mor Co-produced by BBC Radio Scotland, and jointly directed by Marilyn Imrie and Rosie Kellagher
02009-10-1212 October 2009 Elsie and Mairi Go To War[105][106] Diane Atkinson Jennifer Black and Pauline Lockhart This is a true story about best friends. Elsie Knocker was thirty and a lady with a past; and eighteen year-old Mairi Gooden-Chisholm, who had just left school. They met on motorbikes two years before the outbreak of the First World War. National Library of Scotland
02009-12-1212 December 2009 Dovecot Studio Edinburgh
02010-08-044 August 2010 – 02010-08-2020 August 2010 Pauline Lockhart and Clare Waugh
02010-04-2828 April 2010 Blow Me Beautiful[107] Gabriel Quigley and Vicky Liddelle Set in a small hairdressing shop on Edinburgh's Royal Mile, manager Raymond Bussell tries to keep things running smoothly while dreaming of a life of celebrity success. Things rarely go according to plan as Raymond struggles with an over-sexed assistant, a sullen receptionist, a vacant Saturday girl and a new recruit...only Dolly Parton keeps him sane. Stellar Quines / Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
02011-06-066 June 2011 – 02011-06-1111 June 2011 Daphnis and Chloe[108][109][110] Longus adapted by Hattie Naylor Mark McDonnell, Kirstin McLean and Paul James Corrigan Oran Mor, Glasgow
02012-01-01 – 02012-01-01 English Eccentrics[111] Christine Croshaw Prunella Scales and Edward Fox An Anthology featuring Prunella Scales, with words and music

References

  1. ^ Catherine Bailey Ltd – Marilyn Imrie Biography
  2. ^ Stellar Quines Theatre Company – Marilyn Imrie Biography
  3. ^ Stellar Quines Theatre Company – The Team
  4. ^ Diane Atkinson's blog – Marilyn Imrie Biography
  5. ^ Radio Independents Group – Marilyn Imrie Biography
  6. ^ "James Runcie interview: Canterbury tales" – The Scotsman, 25 March 2009
  7. ^ Marilyn Elsie Imrie – thePeerage.com
  8. ^ New voices, new directions and no resting on their laurels – Neil Cooper, Herald Scotland, 3 April 2007
  9. ^ BBC – BBC Radio Scotland – Small Blue Thing
  10. ^ BBC – BBC Radio Scotland – Mother Father Son
  11. ^ Charlotte Runcie web site[dead link]
  12. ^ BBC – Far from the Madding Crowd
  13. ^ BBC – Little Women
  14. ^ BBC – Good Wives
  15. ^ RADIO / The tides of the Marches: Georgina Brown reports on an adaptation for radio of Louisa May Alcott's classic Good Wives, Georgina Brown, The Independent, 10 February 1993
  16. ^ BBC – Woman's Hour Drama
  17. ^ BBC – Saturday Play
  18. ^ BBC – Woman's Hour Drama – Nicholas Nickleby
  19. ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – Stay!
  20. ^ BBC – Afternoon Play
  21. ^ BBC – Classic Serial
  22. ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – Rumpole and the Primrose Path
  23. ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – Rumpole and the Scales of Justice
  24. ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – Rumpole and the Vanishing Juror
  25. ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – Rumpole Redeemed
  26. ^ BBC – Friday Play
  27. ^ BBC – Baggage – Midsummer Mayhem (repeat)
  28. ^ BBC – Baggage – Festival Flatmates (repeat)
  29. ^ BBC – Baggage – Halloween Havoc (repeat)
  30. ^ BBC – Baggage – Fireworks and Funerals (repeat)
  31. ^ BBC – Baggage – Christmas Crises (repeat)
  32. ^ BBC – Baggage – New Year, New Life (repeat)
  33. ^ BBC – The Stanley Baxter Playhouse – Cold Call
  34. ^ BBC – The Stanley Baxter Playhouse – Cold Call (repeat)
  35. ^ BBC – The Stanley Baxter Playhouse – First Impressions (no details)
  36. ^ BBC – The Stanley Baxter Playhouse – First Impressions (repeat – gives details)
  37. ^ BBC – The Stanley Baxter Playhouse – Mortal Memories (gives cast, omits title)
  38. ^ BBC – The Stanley Baxter Playhouse – Mortal Memories (repeat – gives title, omits cast)
  39. ^ BBC – The Stanley Baxter Playhouse – Wheeling Them In
  40. ^ BBC – The Stanley Baxter Playhouse – Wheeling Them In (repeat)
  41. ^ BBC – BBC Radio Scotland – Drama
  42. ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – Rumpole and the Teenage Werewolf
  43. ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – Rumpole and the Right to Privacy
  44. ^ BBC – Baggage – Lovesick and Sickening
  45. ^ BBC – Baggage – Procreation and Procrastination
  46. ^ BBC – Baggage – And So to Bath (no cast)
  47. ^ BBC – Baggage – And So to Bath (repeat – cast)
  48. ^ BBC – Baggage – The Loneliness of the Long Distance Lover
  49. ^ BBC – Baggage – Highland Fling
  50. ^ BBC – Baggage – Perpetual Emotion
  51. ^ BBC – Baggage – Perpetual Emotion (repeat – complete cast)
  52. ^ BBC – Classic Serial – The Card
  53. ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – Rumpole and the Reign of Terror
  54. ^ BBC – Baggage – The Homecoming
  55. ^ BBC – Baggage – Family Matters
  56. ^ BBC – Baggage – The Regeneration Game
  57. ^ BBC – Baggage – Not Quite Part of the Plan
  58. ^ BBC – Baggage – Human Doings
  59. ^ BBC – The Stanley Baxter Playhouse – The King's Kilt
  60. ^ BBC – Baggage – Keep Right on to the End of the Road
  61. ^ BBC – The Stanley Baxter Playhouse – Pasta Alfreddo at Cafe Alessandro
  62. ^ BBC – The Stanley Baxter Playhouse – Flying Down to Greenock
  63. ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – Life: An Audio Tour
  64. ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – The Antisocial Behaviour of Horace Rumpole
  65. ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – Two Pipe Problems: A Streetcar Named Revenge
  66. ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – Two Pipe Problems: The Trusty Valet and the Crusty Butler
  67. ^ BBC – Drama on 3 – Your Only Man
  68. ^ BBC – Drama on 3
  69. ^ BBC – The Stanley Baxter Playhouse – Astonishing Archie
  70. ^ BBC – The Stanley Baxter Playhouse – Fife Circle
  71. ^ BBC – BBC Radio Scotland – The Bones Boys
  72. ^ BBC – The Stanley Baxter Playhouse – The Man in the Garden
  73. ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – Two Pipe Problems
  74. ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – Two Pipe Problems: Have You Come Far?
  75. ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders
  76. ^ BBC – Saturday Play – Utz
  77. ^ BBC – Baggage – Ashes to Auld Reekie
  78. ^ BBC – Baggage – Carping Diem
  79. ^ BBC – Baggage – The Father, the Mother, the Dead Friend and Her Lover
  80. ^ BBC – Baggage – Tales of the Unexpected
  81. ^ BBC – Baggage – For a' that and a' that
  82. ^ BBC – Baggage – You're a Long Time Dead
  83. ^ BBC – Classic Serial – Clarissa: The History of a Young Lady
  84. ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – Two Pipe Problem 2010: Right Old Charlie
  85. ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – Two Pipe Problem 2010: The Memory Man Forgets
  86. ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – Rumpole and the Family Pride
  87. ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – Rumpole and the Eternal Triangle
  88. ^ BBC – The Stanley Baxter Playhouse – The Porter's Story
  89. ^ Radio Times – The Stanley Baxter Playhouse: The Porter's Story
  90. ^ BBC – The Stanley Baxter Playhouse – The German Pilot
  91. ^ BBC – The Stanley Baxter Playhouse – In the Name of the Wee Man
  92. ^ BBC – BBC Radio Scotland – The Bob Servant Emails
  93. ^ BBC – BBC Radio Scotland – Comedy
  94. ^ BBC – Classic Serial – The Lost World
  95. ^ BBC – BBC Radio Scotland – Sybil Unrest
  96. ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – Macmillan's Marvellous Motion Machine
  97. ^ URsTV – Play on Bike Inventor Macmillan
  98. ^ BBC – Classic Serial – The Heat of the Day
  99. ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – Rumpole and the Man of God
  100. ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – Rumpole and the Explosive Evidence
  101. ^ Lie Down Comic – Oran Mor, Glasgow – Mark Fisher, The Guardian, 12 March 2007
  102. ^ Lie Down Comic, Oran Mor, Glasgow – Herald Scotland, 6 March 2007
  103. ^ The Bones Boys at Oran Mor, Glasgow, for Scotsman Review 28.11.08, Joyce McMillan - Onlinealso published in news.scotsman.com
  104. ^ The Bones Boys, Oran Mor, Glasgow – Shona Craven, The Herald Scotland, 25 Nov 2008
  105. ^ Elsie and Mairi Go To War – Diane Atkinson's blog
  106. ^ Elsie and Mairi Go To War – Press Release
  107. ^ Stellar Quines – Blow Me Beautiful
  108. ^ Interview: Marilyn Imrie on Daphnis and Chloe
  109. ^ Daphnis and Chloe, Oran Mor, Glasgow – Alan Chadwick, The Herald Scotland, 9 June 2011
  110. ^ Daphnis and Chloe at Oran Mor, Glasgow, for Scotsman Arts, 9.6.11, Joyce McMillan - Onlinealso published in news.scotsman.com
  111. ^ Clive Conway Celebrity Productions - An Audience With Prunella Scales - English Eccentrics

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