Projects : Related Work

Plays

‘Christmas Spirits’, co-written with Zoë Strachan,
for The Sunday Herald, December 2010

'Panic Patterns' written with Zoe Strachan, 19th-30th October 2010, Citizens Theatre Glasgow, Director Alison Peebles

Herald ****  
Times Higher Education Supplement
The Scotsman ***

'Memory Cells', 4th-30th August 2010, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Pleasance King Dome, Director Hannah Eidinow. Previously directed by Sam Rowe, Arches Theatre, Glasgow (October 20th-24th 2009) Photos from the Arches production starring Tam Dean Burn and Kirstin McLean

'The Importance of Being Alfred', director Liz Carruthers, Òràn Mór Theatre, Glasgow (17th – 22nd Oct 2005) Short listed for Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland, Best New Play Category (2006), subject of 45minute feature on Radio Scotland (7th April 2008) Available from Nick Hern Books in Scottish Shorts

'Seven and a Half Minute Dramatic Monologue In the voice of Sarah Bernhardt', performed by Eleanor Bron, commissioned by BBC Radio 4 for inclusion in The Cemetery Confessions, afternoon play commemorating Père Lachaise Cemetery, producer Sara Davies (6th May 2004)

'Edinburgh Walpurgisnacht', part of the short series Fifteen Minutes To Go, fifteen minute drama written in real time and recorded on location in Edinburgh’s subterranean vaults, BBC 4’s Women’s Hour / 7.45pm slot, producer Gaynor McFarlane (Broadcast 28th May 2004)

Musical Collaborations

'Remembrance Day,' Libretto for 15minute opera, music by Stuart McRae, commissioned by Scottish Opera for performances in Òràn Mór Theatre, Glasgow and The Hub, Edinburgh (Feb 2009) ‘a macabre little shocker,’ The Independant. ‘The most successful offering of the night’ The Times

‘Jesus on the Cross’, Song, arranged and performed by Emma Pollock on Ballads of the Books CD (2006) (See YouTube)

Visual Art Collaboration

‘I throw my prayers into the sky (when fear and faith collide)’ Interdisciplinary project, with writer Zoë Strachan, jeweller Laura Murray and visual artist David Sherry. Month long exhibition and supporting publication, Villa Concordia, Bamberg, Germany (18th November – 18th December 2008)

Non-fiction Radio Features

Tibet on the Banks of the Clyde, Producer Louise Yeoman, BBC Radio 3, 19th August 2010

Presenter/Interviewer, The Gorbals Vampire, Producer David Stenhouse, BBC Radio 4 (30th March 2010)

Presenter/Interviewer, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the Lost World, BBC Radio Scotland, Producer Louise Yeoman (29th May 2009)

Presenter/Interviewer, The Unknown Face, thirty minute feature on the Inconnue de la Seine, recorded in Paris and the UK for BBC Radio 4, producer Jeremy Grange (April 2009)

Wrote & presented, ‘Through the Door, Beyond the Mirror’, Essay on Edgar Allan Poe and ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’, BBC Radio 3, Producer Gemma Jenkins (14th January 2009)

Co-presenter/Interviewer, The Highland Lowland History, Producer Louise Yeoman, three-part series, BBC Radio Scotland
1. Robert the Bruce (13th November 2008)
2. James VI (20th November 2008)
3. Education Act (27th November 2008)

Presenter/Interviewer on Case Reopened, four-part series, BBC Radio Scotland, Producer Ian Boffey
1. Deacon Brodie (25h February 2008)
2. The Darnley Murder (18th February 2008)
3. The Drumsheugh Case (11thth February 2008)
4. Sawney Bean, (4thth February 2008)

Presenter/Interviewer on In the Footsteps of Robert Louis Stevenson, BBC Radio Scotland, Producer Ian Boffey (First broadcast 4thth December 2007)

Presenter/Interviewer on Supergrass, feature on Paleobiology recorded in Britain and the Tyrol, BBC Radio 4, producer Jeremy Grange (First broadcast 12th May 2004)

Devised, wrote and presented two half hour features, A Gothic Quest, Radio 4, producer Jane Greenwood (First broadcast 13th & 20th November 2003, rpt August 2005),

Co-presenter/interviewer/researcher for Word Play, series of four, hour-long, literary arts programmes, Glasgow Live at Radio Magnetic (October 2002)