Colin MacDonald (writer)

{{Short description|Scottish writer for television and radio}}

{{distinguish|text=the British Historian and Author Colin MacGilp MacDonald}}

{{other people|Colin MacDonald|Colin MacDonald (disambiguation){{!}}Colin MacDonald}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}}

{{Use British English|date=October 2020}}

{{BLP sources|date=July 2010}}

Colin MacDonald was born in 1956 in Inverness, Scotland. He is a prolific writer for television and radio. Television credits include The Dunroamin' Rising (BBC1),[https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/720da5f4b39645888d5cb4c18e492479 BBC – Radio Times – The Play on One: The Dunroamin' Rising] The Gift (BBC1),[https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/70ea50a18ad5416e96f4399420a09644 BBC – Radio Times – The Play on One: The Gift] The Wreck on the Highway (BBC1),[https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/70a92607eb6f4aa188f0928effe8d650 BBC – Radio Times – The Play on One: The Wreck on the Highway] Sharpe's Honour (ITV) and episodes in the series Blue Murder (ITV), Heartbeat (ITV), Casualty (BBC1), and Para Handy (BBC1). Radio credits include Killing the Butterfly (BBC Radio 4),[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00771j6 Killing the Butterfly], BBC. Retrieved 21 July 2010 Hill of Rains (BBC Radio 4), The Colour of Summer (BBC Radio 4), King of Hearts (BBC Radio Scotland),[https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/jeffzycinski/2006/02/king_of_hearts.shtml King of Hearts], BBC Radio Scotland, 10 February 2006 The Stanley Baxter Playhouse: The Hat (BBC Radio 4) and Calum's Road (BBC Radio 4). In 2021, BBC Radio 4 aired a full-cast adaptation of C. J. Sansom's mystery novel Lamentation, dramatised by MacDonald, with Justin Salinger starring as Shardlake.{{cite web| url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000rd1r |title=Shardlake:Lamentation |author= |publisher=BBC |access-date=18 January 2021 }}