Radio Plays and Stories by Graeme Fife

Great Road Climbs of the Pyrenees

Rapha
“The Beautiful Machine is a great book.” Libby PurvesAngel of the Assassination

Merit UK
A novel based on the life and death of Charlotte Corday during the French RevolutionGreat Road Climbs of the Southern Alps

Rapha
(to be published April 2010, volume I of what will be a two-volume study of the Alps)The Beautiful Machine

Mainstream
“If you are a cyclist and love the mountains Fife’s Great Road Climbs belongs on your shelf. As the American writer Christopher Morley said: ‘The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets’ and this book is a cyclist’s love poem to the Pyrenees.”Elias Howe

BBC 3
Dramatic monologue about the inventor of the sewing machine.Thirty Stories, Monologues and Duologues

BBC 4
About composers, from Tartini to Rachmaninov, Beethoven to Berlioz, Gluck to Stravinsky.Snipe 607

BBC 4
Play for Fear on Four.Earth to Earth

BBC 4
Dramatisation of the short story by Robert Graves.Vivaldi

BBC 4
Two-part dramatised biography of the Red Priest.The Whisper of the Axe

BBC 4
Drama about the French Revolution.*Arthur the King

BBC 4
Cycle of seven plays Paul Scofield as Merlin.

Arthur Listen to a Sample
La MogadorBizet and the real-life archetype of Carmen.The March of the Ten ThousandDramatised version of Xenophon’s Anabasis.*The Misfortune at SeahamDramatised account of the colliery disaster of 1880.

Seaham
A Breath of Fresh AirDrama: the life and death of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier.Pearls Go with PearlsPlay based on classic Indian drama. (Script consultant)GodslotsFive dramatic sketches about the Olympian gods and goddesses.Surviving WagnerDramatic monologues, with sound and music for three Wagnerian heroines.*St Cecilia of Siciliacomic fantasy for virtuoso actor, Edward de Souza

Cecilia ceciliaListen to a Sample
WILFMorning Story.Cat’s WhiskersSix short comic confections for children.The Figaro LettersImaginary correspondence for the principals in Mozart’s opera.The Athenian TriremeRecorded and compiled by me; I also rowed in the boat.Doggett’s Coat and BadgeAbout the oldest sporting race in continuous competition.Revolutionary PortraitsFive leading characters from the French Revolution, portraits compiled and translated from contemporary documents.The Night StairsFor Between the Ears.*Timbuktu: Drowning in Sand

Timbuktu
Vegetarian Cyclists For the Food Programme.Pause for Thought

Radio 2
Some 100 scripts so far for Radio 2.BikesongsInterval talk: composers, bicycles and cycles of music.Bicycle Music

Radio 4
R4 feature.The Fighting Temeraire

Radio 4
The Battle and the Breeze, R4 FeatureSaint-Saens, Samson et Dalila and the Lost Glory

Radio 3
Concert interval talk for R3.