"The Beautiful Machine is a great book.” Libby Purves
A novel based on the life and death of Charlotte Corday during the French Revolution
(to be published April 2010, volume I of what will be a two-volume study of the Alps)
"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."
Dramatic monologue about the inventor of the sewing machine.
About composers, from Tartini to Rachmaninov, Beethoven to Berlioz, Gluck to Stravinsky.
Play for Fear on Four.
Dramatisation of the short story by Robert Graves.
Two-part dramatised biography of the Red Priest.
Drama about the French Revolution.
Cycle of seven plays Paul Scofield as Merlin.
ListenBizet and the real-life archetype of Carmen.
Dramatised version of Xenophon’s Anabasis.
Dramatised account of the colliery disaster of 1880.
ListenDrama: the life and death of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier.
Play based on classic Indian drama. (Script consultant)
Five dramatic sketches about the Olympian gods and goddesses.
Dramatic monologues, with sound and music for three Wagnerian heroines.
comic fantasy for virtuoso actor, Edward de Souza
ListenMorning Story.
Six short comic confections for children.
Imaginary correspondence for the principals in Mozart’s opera.
Recorded and compiled by me; I also rowed in the boat.
About the oldest sporting race in continuous competition.
Five leading characters from the French Revolution, portraits compiled and translated from contemporary documents.
For Between the Ears.
For the Food Programme.
Some 100 scripts so far for Radio 2.
Interval talk: composers, bicycles and cycles of music.
R4 feature.
The Battle and the Breeze, R4 Feature
Concert interval talk for R3.