Gaynor Macfarlane#Occupation
{{short description|Radio drama producer & director}}
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Gaynor Macfarlane is a theatre and radio drama director, and producer for BBC Radio Drama at Pacific Quay, Glasgow.
Career
Macfarlane directed the first up to the eleventh radio series of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency.{{citation needed|date=January 2024}}
In the theatre, Macfarlane has directed Wit by Margaret Edson, Folie à Trois by Sarah Wooley and The Past is not a Place by Beatrice Colin for the Stellar Quines Theatre Company; The Birds by Aristophanes and After the Rain by Sergi Belbel at the Gate Theatre; The House of Desires by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and Burdalane by Judith Adams at the Battersea Arts Centre; Damon and Pythias at the Globe and Helen at the RNT Studio.
She has been Literary Manager of the Gate Theatre, Script Advisor at the National Theatre and Dramaturg at the Globe during its first season. She also translated plays for the Almeida and Chichester Festival Theatre.{{Cite web |url=http://www.stellarquines.com/popups/biog.php?m=18 |title=Gaynor MacFarlane – Biography – Stellar Quines Theatre Company |access-date=30 October 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402090940/http://www.stellarquines.com/popups/biog.php?m=18 |archive-date=2 April 2012 |url-status=dead }}
Radio plays
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! colspan=6 style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Radio Plays Directed or Produced by Gaynor Macfarlane | |||
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! style="background-color: #CCCCCC;" | Date first broadcast ! style="background-color: #CCCCCC;" | Play ! style="background-color: #CCCCCC;" | Author ! style="background-color: #CCCCCC;" class="unsortable" | Cast ! style="background-color: #CCCCCC;" class="unsortable" | Synopsis ! style="background-color: #CCCCCC;" | Station |- id="A Living Legend" | {{dts|1998-11-01|format=dmy}} | {{sortname|The|Late Story|nolink=y}}: {{sortname|A|Living Legend|nolink=y}} [http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/7284b9225f2c43fca86615f9ed78d836 BBC – The Late Story – A Living Legend] | {{sortname|Dilys|Rose}} | An ageing singer gives what may be her last performance. | BBC Radio 4 The Late Story |- id="Rebus: Let It Bleed" | {{dts|format=dmy|1999-5-31}} | Rebus: Let It Bleed [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01n1tyr BBC – The Afternoon Play – Rebus: Let It Bleed][https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/8ebb49970883422a880cf6fc5cdc4a90 BBC – The Afternoon Play – Rebus: Let It Bleed] | {{sortname|Ian|Rankin}} dramatised by {{sortname|Roger|Danes}} | Alexander Morton, Caroline Loncq, James Bryce, Sarah Collier, Crawford Logan, Steven McNicoll, Sandy Neilson, Ann-Louise Ross, Doug Russell, Wendy Seager and Robin Thomson | A dramatic car chase ends in death and sparks an investigation by Detective Inspector Rebus that plunges deep into the very heart of local government uncovering political corruption and insider dealing. |- id="So Much Blood" | {{dts|1999-08-21|format=dmy}} | {{sortname|Simon|Brett}} dramatised by {{sortname|Bert|Coules}} | Bill Nighy, Jimmy Chisholm and John Paul Hurley | Charles Paris takes his one-man show to the 1999 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, filling a vacant spot at a student venue which is a hotbed of behind-the-scenes drama, until a stage dagger turns murderously into a real one. | BBC Radio 4 Saturday Play [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qgxs BBC – Saturday Play] |- id="The Rocks Below" | {{dts|format=dmy|2000-1-26}} | {{sortname|The|Rocks Below|Beatrice Colin#The Rocks Below}} [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0075rly BBC – Afternoon Play – The Rocks Below][https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/f0fe00e397e84c009940ea8d4e7087bb BBC – Radio Times – Afternoon Play: The Rocks Below] | {{sortname|Beatrice|Colin}} | Deirdre Davis, Mairl Gillespie, Derek McGhie, Gayanne Potter, Simon Tait and Paul Young | On a small Scottish island in the 1950s, identical twins are forced by the imminent death of their father to confront a secret. |- id="The Hours" | {{dts|2000-02-21|format=dmy}} – {{dts|2000-03-03|format=dmy}} | {{sortname|The|Hours|dab=novel}} | {{sortname|Michael|Cunningham}} abridged by {{sortname|Alison|Joseph}} | Buffy Davis, Geraldine James and Elizabeth McGovern | A meditation on love, loss and time. Echoing Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway, it gives a moving and eloquent account of one day in the lives of three very different women. | BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Drama [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qy2s BBC – Woman's Hour Drama] |- id="Summer Sectioned" | {{dts|2000-07-25|format=dmy}} | Summer Sectioned | {{sortname|John|Binnie}} | Lorelei King and Colin Stinton | An elegiac and moving encounter with the woman who was the muse of playwright Tennessee Williams – his sister Rose. | BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qrzz BBC – Afternoon Play] |- id="The Weight of Water" | {{dts|2000-10-23|format=dmy}} – {{dts|2000-11-03|format=dmy}} | {{sortname|The|Weight of Water}} [https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/d68414aeae854c429b8a78c8a99cdad5 BBC – Radio Times – Woman's Hour Drama: The Weight of Water] | {{sortname|Anita|Shreve}} dramatised by {{sortname|Beatrice|Colin}} | Nancy Crane, Derbhle Crotty, Emma Fielding, Karl Johnson, Page Marshall, Isobel Middleton, Stuart Milligan and Simon Scardlfleld | On the night of 5 March 1873, two women, both Norwegian emigrants, were murdered on the Isles of Shoals. In the present day, a newspaper photographer discovers a cache of papers that appear to give an eyewitness account of the murders. | BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Drama |- id="Zander's Boat" | {{dts|2001-04-17|format=dmy}} | Zander's Boat | {{sortname|Grace|Barnes}} | Vicki Masson, Rose McBain and Wendy Seager | Three generations of Shetland women reflect on their lives, on love and loss. Edith is coming to terms with the death of her son, Sylvia prays for a miracle, and Marie is finding the courage to live alone. |- id="Wit" | {{dts|2001-07-08|format=dmy}} | Wit | {{sortname|Margaret|Edson}} adapted for radio by {{sortname|Judith|Adams|dab=dramatist}} | Nancy Crane, Jasmine Hyne, John McGlynn, Stuart Milligan, Margaret Robertson, John Sharian, Adam Sims and Tracy Wiles | A brilliant scholar discovers that she has cancer and, through several courses of exhausting chemotherapy treatments, is forced to learn about wit, compassion and – finally – death. |- id="Zeitgeist Man" | {{dts|2002-11-08|format=dmy}} | Zeitgeist Man | {{sortname|Iain|Heggie}} | Forbes Masson, Liam Brennan, Gayanne Potter, Eileen McCallum, Chris Young, Jo James and Cora Bissett | A biting comedy about writing, the media and the dream of catching the zeitgeist. Unsuccessful novelist, Hugh Crombie, inadvertently offers an idea to aspiring writer, Dekky Duff. A year passes and Dekky is hailed as the new sensation Scottish writer. He is the real thing, a genuine working class hero, a hospital porter turned novelist. Hugh is enraged and sets out to convince the world that he is the true Zeitgeist Man. | BBC Radio 4 Friday Play [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006r5p8 BBC – Friday Play] |- id="King of Shadows" | {{dts|format=dmy|2003-3-20}} | King of Shadows [https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/576ffca1790e4816b9d644beb4cd70f4 BBC – Radio Times – Afternoon Play: King of Shadows] | {{sortname|Susan|Cooper}} dramatised by {{sortname|Beatrice|Colin}} | Buffy Davis, Sally Dexter, Tom George, Robert Glenister, Martin Hyder, Adam Sims and Andrew Woodall | A magical adventure story set both in the present day and in Elizabethan England. Chosen to play Puck in a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream at Shakespeare's Globe, young American Nat Field travels to London. Visiting the theatre for the first time, he falls seriously ill. When he awakes, he finds that he has gone back 400 years in time. |- id="Turtle Diary" | {{dts|2003-04-19|format=dmy}} | Turtle Diary [https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/9ded818092b04cdfb4acd0b5be3a6830 BBC – Radio Times – The Saturday Play: Turtle Diary] | {{sortname|Russell|Hoban}} dramatised by {{sortname|Alison|Joseph}} | Geraldine James, Bill Nighy, Suzanne Heathcote, Martin Hyder, Isobel Middleton and Graham Turner | The turtles in London Zoo become the mutual obsession of two lonely strangers who dream of setting free the turtles and themselves. |- id="Precious Bane" | {{dts|format=dmy|2003-5-4}} – {{dts|format=dmy|2003-5-11}} | Precious Bane [https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/7640222a48bf49a7a3559cfa93849c80 BBC – Radio Times – Classic Serial: Precious Bane] | {{sortname|Mary|Webb}} dramatised by {{sortname|Beatrice|Colin}} | Louise Breckon-Richards, Laura Doddington, Owen Teale, Julia Ford, Tom Goodman-Hill, Helen Schlesinger, Maggie Steed, Nigel Terry and Timothy Watson | Prue Sam is born "hare shotten" and it is this hare lip that is her "precious bane". She is torn between loyalty to her recklessly ambitious brother, Gideon, and a deep unexpressed love for the weaver Kester Woodseaves. |- id="The Time Between Two Tides" | {{dts|2003-10-28|format=dmy}} | {{sortname|The|Time Between Two Tides|nolink=y}} | {{sortname|Andy|Macdonald|dab=writer}} | William Barlow, Kate Dickie, Tony Kearney, Gary Lewis, Steven McNicoll, Nick Underwood and Wendy Seager | A refugee boy is chased into the River Clyde. When a local lad leaps in to save him, both are trapped under a wharf building. In the time that it takes for the tide to change, and for a rescue to be mounted, truths are revealed about the boys, their families and the city in which they live. |- id="Mapping the Heart" | {{dts|format=dmy|2004-1-30}} | Mapping the Heart [https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/5a2d667e82154596b9f4f89d2d109d7c BBC – Radio Times – Afternoon Play: Mapping the Heart] | {{sortname|Beatrice|Colin}} | Gayanne Potter, Stuart Milligan, Monica Gibb, Paul Young and Lewis Howden | An adventure story set in 1950 in the Brazilian rainforest. Scots-born Kristina Morrison is thrown together with opinionated American Ray Epstein when their light aircraft crashes in the jungle. Kristina finds herself torn between two men: Ray and her explorer father Felix. |- id="Soft Fall the Sounds of Eden" | {{dts|2004-06-11|format=dmy}} | Soft Fall the Sounds of Eden | {{sortname|Sharman|Macdonald}} | Frances Grey, Patricia Kerrigan, Phyllida Law, Cal Macaninch, Shauna Macdonald, Colette O'Neil and Iain Robertson | What is Paradise? The hot Dumfries countryside in late summer is transformed into a Garden of Eden of sorts as diverse groups of locals enjoy the sunshine and reflect on their lives. A beautiful and evocative play about freedom, the impact of the choices we make, and about picking brambles on a hot afternoon in Scotland. | BBC Radio 4 Friday Play |- id="The Daddy" | {{dts|2004-09-10|format=dmy}} | {{sortname|The|Daddy|nolink=y}} [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00k2d8t BBC – Afternoon Play – The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency: The Daddy] | {{sortname|Alexander|McCall Smith}} | Claire Benedict, Nadine Marshall, Joseph Marcell, Janice Acquah, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Jude Akuwudike, Chuk Iwuji, Maynard Eziashi, Peter Gevisser, Noma Dumezweni, Emmanuel Ighodaro, Willie Jonah, Ben Thomas, Alibe Parsons, Bhasker Patel, Nancy Crane, Tehmina Sacranie and Heather Mann | Precious Ramotswe, owner and founder of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, takes on her first case – and a news secretary. |- id="The Bone" | {{dts|2004-09-17|format=dmy}} | {{sortname|The|Bone|nolink=y}} [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00k2lzp BBC – Afternoon Play – The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency: The Bone] | {{sortname|Alexander|McCall Smith}} | Precious Ramotswe, owner and founder of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, sets out to discover the truth about Nandira Patel's boyfriend and to solve the case of the mysterious bone. |- id="The Maid" | {{dts|2004-09-24|format=dmy}} | {{sortname|The|Maid|nolink=y}} [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00k2nk9 BBC – Afternoon Play – The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency: The Maid] | {{sortname|Alexander|McCall Smith}} | Mma Ramotswe, owner and founder of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, has good news. However, she must also face a scheming maid, find out the truth behind a doctor's erratic behaviour and take on a new case about a missing American. |- id="Tears of the Giraffe" | {{dts|2004-10-01|format=dmy}} | Tears of the Giraffe [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00k2s0q BBC – Afternoon Play – The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency: Tears of the Giraffe] | {{sortname|Alexander|McCall Smith}} | Mr JLB Matekoni has a surprise for Mma Ramotswe, owner and founder of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. Meanwhile, the case of the missing American man has still to be solved. |- id="Folie à Trois" | {{dts|2005-01-28|format=dmy}} | Folie à Trois | {{sortname|Sarah|Wooley}} | Eileen McCallum, Colette O'Neil, Molly Innes and Chris Young | Three women live together in an ordinary suburb in the West of Scotland. After a chance encounter with a street evangelist, the youngest decides not to face the 21st century and the threat of imminent apocalypse, and sets out to persuade the others to join her. But how will they do it and what happens if one of them changes her mind? | BBC Radio 4 Friday Play |- id="The Chief Justice of Beauty" | {{dts|2005-08-30|format=dmy}} | {{sortname|The|Chief Justice of Beauty|nolink=y}} [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00k3myc BBC – Afternoon Play – The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency: The Chief Justice of Beauty] | {{sortname|Alexander|McCall Smith}} | Precious Ramotswe, owner and founder of The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, is worried about her fiancé, Mr J L B Matekoni. Meanwhile, Mma Makutsi takes on a case for the Chief Justice of Beauty. |- id="The Confession" | {{dts|2005-09-06|format=dmy}} | {{sortname|The|Confession|nolink=y}} [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00k7xcy BBC – Afternoon Play – The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency: The Confession] | {{sortname|Alexander|McCall Smith}} | Claire Benedict and Joseph Marcell | Precious Ramotswe, owner and founder of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, has to find two women wronged in the past by her client, Mr Molefelo. |- id="The Kalahari Typing School for Men" | {{dts|2005-09-13|format=dmy}} | {{sortname|The|Kalahari Typing School for Men}} [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00k89mk BBC – Afternoon Play – The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency: The Kalahari Typing School for Men] | {{sortname|Alexander|McCall Smith}} | Precious Ramotswe, owner and founder of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, discovers that the agency has competition, and Mma Makutsi embarks on an entrepreneurial enterprise. |- id="The Admirer" | {{dts|2005-09-20|format=dmy}} | {{sortname|The|Admirer|nolink=y}} [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00k8t2y BBC – Afternoon Play – The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency: The Admirer] | {{sortname|Alexander|McCall Smith}} | Precious Ramotswe, owner and founder of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, makes an unhappy discovery and Mma Makutsi finds an admirer at the Kalahari Typing School for Men. |- id="The Razor's Edge" | {{dts|2005-12-18|format=dmy}} – {{dts|2005-12-31|format=dmy}} | {{sortname|The|Razor's Edge}} | {{sortname|W Somerset|Maugham}} dramatised by {{sortname|Ronald|Frame}} | Nicholas Le Prevost, John Light, Megan Dodds, Edward Petherbridge, Sam Dale, Amerjit Deu, Paul Dinnen, Philip Fox, Laurel Lefkow, Carolyn Pickles and David Bannerman | Young veteran Larry Darrell returns to Chicago after the First World War, and finds it difficult to fit back into society. To the dismay of his fiancé, Isabel he heads for Paris where he embarks on a spiritual quest to find the answers to his many questions. | BBC Radio 4 Classic Serial[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qfz6 BBC – Classic Serial] |- id="There Is No Such Thing as Free Food" | {{dts|2008-01-01|format=dmy}} | There Is No Such Thing as Free Food [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008khxs BBC – Afternoon Play – The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency: There Is No Such Thing as Free Food] | {{sortname|Alexander|McCall Smith}} | Claire Benedict, Nadine Marshall, Ben Onwukwe, Janice Acquah, Jude Akuwudike, Ayesha Antoine, Sam Dale, Maynard Eziashi, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Paterson Joseph and Kedar Williams-Stirling | Precious Ramotswe, owner and founder of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, is preoccupied both professionally and personally by the subject of food. |- id="The Best Profession for a Blackmailer" | {{dts|2008-01-02|format=dmy}} | {{sortname|The|Best Profession for a Blackmailer|nolink=y}} [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008kljl BBC – Afternoon Play – The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency: Best Profession for a Blackmailer] | {{sortname|Alexander|McCall Smith}} | Claire Benedict, Nadine Marshall, Janice Acquah, Maynard Eziashi, Adjoa Andoh, Paterson Joseph and Alibe Parsons | Mr Polopetsi, part-time mechanic and would-be assistant detective, takes on a case of his own. Mma Makutsi finds out whether blue shoes are the key to happiness. |- id="A Very Rude Woman" | {{dts|2008-01-03|format=dmy}} | {{sortname|A|Very Rude Woman|nolink=y}} [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008kmqs BBC – Afternoon Play – The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency: A Very Rude Woman] | {{sortname|Alexander|McCall Smith}} | Claire Benedict, Nadine Marshall, Janice Acquah, Ben Onwukwe, Adjoa Andoh, Noma Dumezweni, Maynard Eziashi, Chuk Iwuji, Paterson Joseph and Alibe Parsons | Precious Ramotswe faces change at the agency while Mr J L B Matekoni meets the rudest person in Botswana. |- id="Talking Shoes" | {{dts|2008-01-04|format=dmy}} | Talking Shoes [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008kv7x BBC – Afternoon Play – The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency: Talking Shoes] | {{sortname|Alexander|McCall Smith}} | Claire Benedict, Nadine Marshall, Ben Onwukwe, Janice Acquah, Adjoa Andoh, Anna Bengo, Noma Dumezweni, William Gaminara, Chuk Iwuji, Paterson Joseph, Naomi Taylor and Ben Thomas | A new detective takes on a case for the agency while Mma Ramotswe, among others, has a problem with high blood pressure. |- id="They Have Oak Trees in North Carolina" | {{dts|2008-08-29|format=dmy}} | They Have Oak Trees in North Carolina [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00d4613 BBC – Friday Play – They Have Oak Trees in North Carolina] | {{sortname|Sarah|Wooley}} | Alexander Morton, Ellie Haddington, Simon Harrison, Kenny Blyth and Gayanne Potter | In 1986, Ray and Eileen's five-year-old son Patrick vanishes in Florida. Twenty two years later, a good-looking American named Clay arrives in their small village, claiming to be their missing son. |- id="The Miracle at Speedy Motors" | {{dts|2008-12-25|format=dmy}} | {{sortname|The|Miracle at Speedy Motors}} [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00g3h5g BBC – Afternoon Play – The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency: The Miracle at Speedy Motors] | {{sortname|Alexander|McCall Smith}} | Claire Benedict, Nadine Marshall, Ben Onwukwe, Janice Acquah, Jude Akuwudike, Adjoa Andoh, Anna Bengo, Noma Dumezweni, Maynard Eziashi, Emmanuel Ighodaro, Chuk Iwuji and Alibe Parsons | Precious Ramotswe, owner and founder of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, is preoccupied – by the absence of postboxes in Botswana, by an anonymous letter and by an adopted child's poignant search for her true family. Meanwhile, Mr JLB Matekoni pursues an expensive cure for their foster daughter Motholeli. |- id="An Exceptionally Wicked Lady" | {{dts|2010-12-02|format=dmy}} | {{sortname|An|Exceptionally Wicked Lady|nolink=y}} [http://www.bbc.co.uk//b00w7cwy BBC – Afternoon Play – The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency: An Exceptionally Wicked Lady] | {{sortname|Alexander|McCall Smith}} | Janice Acquah, Nadine Marshall, Ben Onwukwe, Sam Dale, Jude Akuwudike, Maynard Eziashi, Anna Bengo, Noma Dumezweni, Adjoa Andoh, Babou Ceesay and Nyasha Hatendi | Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi face an old adversary while a letter from America sets the agency a seemingly impossible task. |- id="Canoeing for Ladies" | {{dts|2010-12-03|format=dmy}} | Canoeing for Ladies [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00w7f87 BBC – Afternoon Play – The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency: Canoeing for Ladies] | {{sortname|Alexander|McCall Smith}} | Janice Acquah, Nadine Marshall, Ben Onwukwe, Maynard Eziashi, Nyasha Hatendi, Obi Abili, Chuk Iwuji, Jude Akuwudike, Anna Bengo, Noma Dumezweni and Adjoa Andoh | Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi have to face the dangers of crocodiles, hippos and a tiny canoe as their case takes them to the Okovango Delta to trace a safari guide. There is also the problem of Phuti's aunt to solve, as well as the necessity of confronting their old adversary, Violet Sepotho. |- id="Out of Africa" | {{dts|2011-04-25|format=dmy}} – {{dts|2011-04-29|format=dmy}} | Out of Africa [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b010m19w BBC – Woman's Hour Drama – Out of Africa] | {{sortname|Karen|Blixen}} dramatised by {{sortname|Judith|Adams|dab=dramatist}} | Emma Fielding, Tom Goodman-Hill, Beru Tessema, Maynard Eziashi and Sean Baker | Soon after Karen Blixen relocates to British East Africa, she finds herself alone in a foreign land with the enormous responsibility of trying to operate a successful coffee plantation. To accomplish this, she must get to know the land and the locals who work for and with her. In the process, she learns more about herself. | BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Drama |- id="Occupation" | {{dts|2011-09-06|format=dmy}} | Occupation [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0145x7p BBC – Afternoon Play – Occupation] | {{sortname|Andy|Macdonald|dab=writer}} | Alexander Morton, Sally Reid, Brian Ferguson and Tracy Wiles | A fifty-year-old factory employee finds his own way to make a stand. With orders still on the books, Kenny Gall refuses to leave the factory he has worked in for more than thirty years. |- id="A Late Van Just Glimpsed" | {{dts|2011-11-03|format=dmy}} | {{sortname|A|Late Van Just Glimpsed|nolink=y}} [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b016ljhy BBC – Afternoon Play – The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency: A Late Van Just Glimpsed] | {{sortname|Alexander|McCall Smith}} | Claire Benedict, Nadine Marshall, Ben Onwukwe, Janice Acquah, Adjoa Andoh, Maynard Eziashi and Nyasha Hatendi | Mma Ramotswe makes a ghostly sighting and there is disturbing news about Charlie, Mr JLB Matekoni's wayward apprentice and the ladies investigate unexplained, violent attacks on cattle. Meanwhile, preparations are underway for Mma Makutsi's wedding to Phuti Radiphuti, but tragedy awaits outside the shoe shop. |- id="The Saturday Big Tent Wedding" | {{dts|2011-11-04|format=dmy}} | {{sortname|The|Saturday Big Tent Wedding|The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party}} [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b016lkgj BBC – Afternoon Play – The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency: The Saturday Big Tent Wedding] | {{sortname|Alexander|McCall Smith}} | Claire Benedict, Nadine Marshall, Ben Onwukwe, Janice Acquah, Adjoa Andoh, Maynard Eziashi, Nyasha Hatendi, Obi Abili, Beru Tessema, Jude Akuwudike and Gbemisola Ikumelo | The ladies solve the case of the murdered cattle. Mma Makutsi is feeling anxious about her upcoming wedding to Phuti Radiphuti and an old friend comes to the rescue. And Charlie is let off the hook. |- id="Happy Hour at the Hotel Death" | {{dts|2011-11-23|format=dmy}} | Happy Hour at the Hotel Death [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b017cly0 BBC – BBC Radio Scotland – Happy Hour at the Hotel Death] | {{sortname|Colin|Hough}} | Ralph Riach, Ann Louise Ross, Sean Scanlan and Ann Scott-Jones | Fed up with their loveless marriages, septuagenarians Avril and Nettie suggest a swinging holiday to their respective spouses. Tam and Boaby respond by planning the holiday of a lifetime. | BBC Radio Scotland Drama [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland/programmes/genres/drama BBC – BBC Radio Scotland – Drama] |- id="The Great Gatsby" | {{dts|2012-05-06|format=dmy}} – {{dts|2012-05-13|format=dmy}} | {{sortname|The|Great Gatsby}} [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01h2kvn BBC – Classic Serial – The Great Gatsby] | {{sortname|F Scott|Fitzgerald}} dramatised by {{sortname|Robert|Forrest|dab=dramatist}} | Bryan Dick, Andrew Scott, Andrew Buchan, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Melody Grove, Karl Johnson, Sam Dale, Gerard McDermott, Susie Riddell, Tracy Wiles, Patrick Brennan, Christine Absalom and Amaka Okafor | F Scott Fitzgerald's seminal novel, a portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, is perhaps the greatest book on the fallibility of the American dream. Nick Carraway arrives in Long Island and is reacquainted with his distant cousin, Daisy Buchanan. He falls in with her wealthy crowd. His neighbour, the self-made and self-invented millionaire, Gatsby, is the man who has everything – but one thing will always be out of his reach. |- id="Mary Stuart" | {{dts|2012-09-23|format=dmy}} | Mary Stuart [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01msj6x BBC – Drama on 3 – Mary Stuart] | {{sortname|Friedrich|Schiller}} translated by {{sortname|David|Harrower}} & adapted by {{sortname|Robin|Brooks}} | Meg Fraser, Alexandra Mathie, Matthew Pidgeon, Robin Laing, Richard Greenwood, Paul Young, Wendy Seagar, Jimmy Chisholm, Laurie Brown, Grant O'Rourke and John Buick | One of European theatre's major plays, Friedrich Schiller's Mary Stuart is a thrilling account of the extraordinary and tempestuous relationship between England's Elizabeth I and her rival cousin, the imprisoned Queen of Scots. | BBC Radio 3 Drama on 3 [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tnwj BBC – Drama on 3] |- id="A Man from a Far Place" | {{dts|2013-03-20|format=dmy}} | {{sortname|A|Man from a Far Place|nolink=y}} [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01r9r45 BBC – Afternoon Play – The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency: A Man from a Far Place] | {{sortname|Alexander|McCall Smith}} | Claire Benedict, Nadine Marshall, Ben Onwukwe, Maynard Eziashi, Beru Tessema, Janice Acquah, Babou Ceesay, Sam Dale, Eleanor Crooks and Jude Akuwudike | Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi receive a visit from an extremely important person – a hero, as it happens, of the two detectives at the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency. Mma Potokwani has had bad news at the Orphan Farm. And one of Mr J.L.B. Matekoni's apprentices, Fanwell, gets himself into deep water. |- id="The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection" | {{dts|2013-03-21|format=dmy}} | {{sortname|The|Limpopo Academy of Private Detection}} [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01r9sl1 BBC – Afternoon Play – The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency: The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection] | {{sortname|Alexander|McCall Smith}} | Claire Benedict, Nadine Marshall, Ben Onwukwe, Janice Acquah, Maynard Eziashi, Beru Tessema, Sam Dale, Obi Abili, Adjoa Andoh, Nyasha Hatendi, Jude Akuwudike and Babou Ceesay | Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi have received a visit from an extremely important person – a hero of the two detectives at the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency. Mma Potokwani has had bad news at the Orphan Farm and the ladies are determined to help her. And Mr J.L.B. Matekoni sets out to clear the name of his apprentice, Fanwell. |- id="Albion Street" | {{dts|format=dmy|2014-1-29}} | Albion Street [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03qglqm BBC – BBC Radio Scotland – Albion Street] | {{sortname|Oliver|Emanuel}} | Robin Laing and Meg Fraser | Jamie and Kirsty have been separated for about 10 years. Before that they were married for about 10 years. They meet by chance in a restaurant in Albion Street. What does the future hold? Are they better together or apart? | BBC Radio Scotland Drama |- id="The True Story of Bonnie Parker" | {{dts|format=dmy|2013-8-26}} – {{dts|format=dmy|2013-8-30}} | {{sortname|The|True Story of Bonnie Parker|Beatrice Colin#The True Story of Bonnie Parker}} [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b038xmcz BBC – 15 Minute Drama – The True Story of Bonnie Parker] | {{sortname|Beatrice|Colin}} | Melody Grove, Finn den Hertog, Robin Laing, Liam Brennan, James Anthony Pearson and Rosalind Sydney | Having dropped out of high school and married at 16, the young Bonnie Parker is working as a waitress. Her life is about to change – when she meets Clyde Barrow. |- id="The Ice Wife" | {{dts|format=dmy|2015-2-2}} – {{dts|format=dmy|2015-2-6}} | {{sortname|The|Ice Wife|Beatrice Colin#The Ice Wife}} [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b050zpwr BBC – 15 Minute Drama – The Ice Wife] | {{sortname|Beatrice|Colin}} | Claire Rushbrook, Steven Cree, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Ian Conningham and Sam Dale | Tensions are running high on the skeleton over-wintering crew on an Antarctic base – but why? |- id="This Is Not a Rubbish Boy" | {{dts|2016-08-04|format=dmy}} | This Is Not a Rubbish Boy [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07m7qhz BBC – Afternoon Play – The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency: This Is Not a Rubbish Boy] | {{sortname|Alexander|McCall Smith}} | Claire Benedict, Nadine Marshall, Ben Onwukwe, Steve Toussaint, Kai Francis-Lewis, Janice Acquah and Eleanor Crooks | Mma Ramotswe has to come to terms with one of the most difficult situations that she has ever faced – taking a holiday. |- id="The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine" | {{dts|2016-08-05|format=dmy}} | {{sortname|The|Woman Who Walked in Sunshine}} [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07m7z0w BBC – Afternoon Play – The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency: The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine] | {{sortname|Alexander|McCall Smith}} | Claire Benedict, Nadine Marshall, Ben Onwukwe, Steve Toussaint, Janice Acquah, Jason Barnett and Clare Perkins | Mma Ramotswe is technically on holiday from the Agency but that does not stop her from stepping in to rescue an orphaned boy, or from taking on an important case. |- id="The Fat Cattle Club" | {{dts|2017-07-19|format=dmy}} | {{sortname|The|Fat Cattle Club}} [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08y1bw6 BBC – Afternoon Play – The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency: The Fat Cattle Club] | {{sortname|Alexander|McCall Smith}} | Janice Acquah, Nadine Marshall, Ben Onwukwe, Steve Toussaint and Sarah Niles | |- id="Precious and Grace" | {{dts|2017-07-20|format=dmy}} | Precious and Grace [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08y26qm BBC – Afternoon Play – The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency: Precious and Grace] | {{sortname|Alexander|McCall Smith}} | Janice Acquah, Nadine Marshall, Ben Onwukwe, Steve Toussaint and Sarah Niles | |- id="The Ferryman’s Apprentice" | {{dts|format=dmy|2017-12-1}} | {{sortname|The|Ferryman’s Apprentice|Beatrice Colin#The Ferryman’s Apprentice}} [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09gkkvp BBC – Afternoon Drama – The Ferryman’s Apprentice] | {{sortname|Beatrice|Colin}} | Gary Lewis, Chris O'Reilly, Rosalind Sydney and Tom Smith | Charon is the Ferryman on the river Acheron. His job is to ferry sinners across the river of woe and decide into which circle of Hell they should go. His son, Thomas, is determined to pursue a different career. |- id="The Vital Spark: The Driver’s Seat" | {{dts|format=dmy|2018-1-14}} | {{sortname|The|Vital Spark: The Driver’s Seat|Beatrice Colin#The Vital Spark: The Driver’s Seat}} [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09lxpyd BBC – Classic Serial – The Vital Spark: The Driver’s Seat] | {{sortname|Muriel|Spark}} dramatised by {{sortname|Beatrice|Colin}} | Shauna Macdonald, Alexandra Mathie, Robert Jack, Robin Laing, Cesare Taurasi, Georgie Glen, Alasdair Hankinson and Karen Bartke | Lise, an enigmatic young woman travelling alone to a European city in search of "the one". We assume that she is seeking a lover but in fact she is searching for the man who will murder her. |- id="4/4: Introduction and Allegro" | {{dts|2018-01-22|format=dmy}} | 4/4: Introduction and Allegro [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09ntdc7 BBC – Afternoon Drama – 4/4: Introduction and Allegro] | {{sortname|Robin|Brooks}} | Alasdair Hankinson, Simon Donaldson, Robin Laing, Shauna Macdonald, Karen Bartke, Nick Underwood, Kenny Blyth and the Edinburgh Quartet | A new comedy drama series about the exploits – musical and otherwise – of a string quartet. |- id="4/4: Scherzo" | {{dts|2018-01-29|format=dmy}} | 4/4: Scherzo [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09pl2sk BBC – Afternoon Drama – 4/4: Scherzo] | {{sortname|Sarah|Wooley}} | Alasdair Hankinson, Simon Donaldson, Robin Laing, Shauna Macdonald, Karen Bartke, Kenny Blyth and the Edinburgh Quartet | The Benjamin Quartet, with their new First Violin Paul, has played to a tiny audience in Brussels, where Fergus has been taken ill with a suspected heart attack. |- id="4/4: Rondo Mysterioso" | {{dts|2018-02-05|format=dmy}} | 4/4: Rondo Mysterioso [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09qcdkv BBC – Afternoon Drama – 4/4: Rondo Mysterioso] | {{sortname|Robin|Brooks}} | Alasdair Hankinson, Simon Donaldson, Robin Laing, Shauna Macdonald, Karen Bartke, Nick Underwood, Kenny Blyth, Finlay Welsh and the Edinburgh Quartet | After a difficult night in a Brussels A and E, the Benjamin Quartet has been invited to play at a festival in Lucca. What could go wrong? |- id="4/4: Finale Con Porca" | {{dts|2018-02-12|format=dmy}} | 4/4: Finale Con Porca [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09r3zv3 BBC – Afternoon Drama – 4/4: Finale Con Porca] | {{sortname|Sarah|Wooley}} | Alasdair Hankinson, Simon Donaldson, Robin Laing, Shauna Macdonald, Karen Bartke, Laurie Brown, Kyle Gardiner and the Edinburgh Quartet | After playing in a festival in Lucca, the quartet is on its way home when they receive a new booking. Fergus has invited Kelly, a young Australian woman, to travel with them. Could things be beginning to go right for the Benjamin Quartet? |- id="The Poet and the Echo: Grey Evening" | {{dts|format=dmy|2018-6-1}} | {{sortname|The|Poet and the Echo: Grey Evening|Beatrice Colin#The Poet and the Echo: Grey Evening}} [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b493vp BBC – The Poet and the Echo – Grey Evening] | {{sortname|Beatrice|Colin}} | Read by Cal MacAninch | An achromatic artist is exposed in this witty story inspired by D H Lawrence's poem. |- |} Sources:
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